Lead Data Engineer

AND Digital

Lead Data Engineer at AND Digital deploying and maintaining data pipelines with a DataOps culture. Engaging with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver modern data solutions.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeBirmingham • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSAzureCloudDynamoDBGoogle Cloud PlatformSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Develop pipelines that brings data to life for decision making, either delivering insight or for more sophisticated data science applications.
Be comfortable working in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering modern data platforms into large organisations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in being hands on with data, applying the practicalities of quality, flow, and organisation of information, and an understanding of data modelling approaches.
Previous practical experience of using both SQL and task orchestration software (eg. dbt, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster or equivalent) to develop production-grade pipelines that bring data to life.
Strong Snowflake experience is preferred, and Databricks experience would be a bonus.
Practical hands-on experience of at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and experience of associated technologies (for example with AWS: DynamoDB, Redshift, Kinesis Pipelines, Glue, Lambda, QuickSight, etc).
Hands-on dataops experience (eg. CI/CD, version control, IaC, etc.)
Have experience adopting a Data Product mindset, ensuring datasets are discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, and self-describing for downstream consumers.
Ability to bridge the gap between technical engineering and business value, translating stakeholder needs into robust data product specifications.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days holiday allowance + flexible bank holidays
2 days per year for volunteering
Share scheme
A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan
PLUS many more

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdata modellingdata qualitydata flowdata organizationSnowflakeDatabricksAWSAzureGCP

Soft Skills

agile environmentmulti-disciplinary teamworkdata product mindsetstakeholder communicationtranslating technical needs