Lead Data Engineer

Role: Lead Data Engineer

Salary: £65,000- £70,000 per annum

Location: Leeds (One day on site).

VIQU have partnered with a leading supply chain organisation who are looking to expand their data teams. The Lead Data Engineer will manage a team of eight to help with an on-going digital transformation. The ideal candidate will come from a technical background but has recently worked in a managerial role focused on mentoring, coaching, reviewing code, and standard setting. The role will focus on the development of the clients Databricks platform (AWS is preferred but open to Azure/GCP experience also), utilising Python and SQL, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, strategy development, cost optimisation and data governance frameworks.

Job duties of the Lead Data Engineer:

• Lead a team of eight engineers, helping to mentor and coach the team.
• Manage the adoption of automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to the development of a new Databricks system in AWS (AWS experience is preferred but they are open to managers with Azure experience).
• Cost optimisation.
• Establish data governance frameworks for secure handling of delivery information.

Requirements of the Lead Data Engineer:

• 6+ years experience in a hands on data engineer role, with over a years recent experience in a managerial role, coaching similar sized teams.
• Deep knowledge of the Databricks platform.
• Hands on Python development experience.
• SQL optimisation.
• Experience with large scale data pipeline optimisation.
• Experience with Streaming and Batch Spark workloads.
• Strong people management skills.

Role: Lead Data Engineer

Salary: £65,000- £70,000 per annum

Location: Leeds (One day on site).

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