Lead Data Engineer

Job Description

Lead Data Engineer - Gambling Sector (No Sponsorship)

Salary: £125,000

Location: Remote (London Office)

This is an opportunity to step into a hands-on leadership role where you will shape a modern data function, influence technical direction, and build high-impact data infrastructure from the ground up. If you enjoy ownership, technical depth, and working in a product-driven, fast-moving environment, this role will appeal.

The Company They are a rapidly scaling consumer technology business backed by significant recent investment. Their platform is built around a modern, intuitive user experience and serves a large, engaged customer base across the UK. With strong growth, a clear product vision, and a collaborative engineering culture, they offer the chance to directly influence how data powers the next phase of their evolution. The business values responsible innovation, high technical standards, and a genuine passion for building great digital products.

The Role As Lead Data Engineer, you will contribute to both technical strategy and delivery while mentoring and supporting engineers. You will:

• Build and scale core ETL pipelines and data ingestion workflows.
• Design and maintain data models that enable analytics and operational insight.
• Evolve the data platform to ensure reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Lead engineering best practices across testing, orchestration, versioning, and automation.
• Contribute to architectural design, including cloud infrastructure and tooling decisions.
• Collaborate with data leaders and product stakeholders to deliver high-quality data solutions.
• Support recruitment and help shape the future structure of the data engineering team.

Your Skills and Experience You will bring:

• Strong commercial experience in Python and SQL.
• Expertise in GCP and a modern data warehouse such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines and data models.
• Knowledge of orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience such as Terraform or similar.
• A background working in smaller, high-growth companies or strong engineering-led environments.
• The ability to mentor engineers and uphold high technical standards.

What They Offer

• Comprehensive benefits package including health cover, flexible working, and home-office support.
• The opportunity to join a high-investment, product-focused organisation where data is a core function.
• Clear progression, ongoing learning opportunities, and the chance to influence team growth.

How to Apply If this sounds like the right next step for you, please apply with your CV now!