At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and build of a cutting-edge cloud data platform.
- Company: Established financial services company focused on consumer debt management.
- Benefits: Up to £120k salary, bonus, 25 days holiday, onsite gym, and wellness support.
- Other info: Flexible work-from-home options and opportunities for personal growth.
- Why this job: Shape a new data platform and make a real impact in a growing team.
- Qualifications: Experience in data engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data ingestion pipelines.
The predicted salary is between 120000 - 120000 £ per year.
Do you have expertise with modern data platform engineering? You could be progressing your career in a hands-on technical leadership role at a well-established consumer-facing financial services company that helps people to manage debt, as they go through a technical transformation and scale-up following recent investment.
As a Data Platform Lead, you will be responsible for designing, building and owning the new cloud (AWS) hosted data platform from the ground up. You'll act as the design authority for data infrastructure, working closely with software engineering teams, the BI function and the Enterprise Architect to enable analytics, insight, AI and safe system transitions.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you will design the platform, build it, evolve it and make pragmatic decisions that deliver value early while supporting long-term scalability. You'll own and evolve data ingestion pipelines, including incremental migration from a legacy monolith and Oracle-based systems, dual-running and reconciliation during platform transition (12-24 month initiative) and be responsible for the ongoing ingestion from systems of record (e.g. Sage, HR systems, HubSpot) and partners with the ultimate aim of establishing a hub-and-spoke, single source of truth data architecture that supports both transition and long-term scale.
Location / WFH: You'll be based in fantastic new offices in London that offer a wide range of facilities including wellness rooms and onsite gym for three days a week with flexibility to work from home twice a week.
About you:
- You have experience as a Lead Data Engineer or Senior Data Engineer, with experience of designing and building data platforms end-to-end.
- You have deep hands-on experience with cloud-native data infrastructure, ideally on AWS using IaC.
- You have experience with Lakehouse and modern Data Warehouse patterns; AWS S3-based Lakehouse patterns, Athena / Redshift, Glue, EMR and related native services and Metabase for self-service analytics.
- You have experience of designing and operating data ingestion pipelines at scale (batch and streaming).
- You have experience of supporting system migrations and dual-running, including reconciliation and trust building.
- You have a strong understanding of data modelling for analytics.
- You have experience of enabling self-service analytics platforms (e.g. Metabase or similar).
- You've had exposure to AI-adjacent data work, including: preparing data for RAG or ML use cases and supporting streaming or near-real-time analytics.
- You're collaborative and pragmatic, comfortable working closely with Product Managers to explain technical aspects and trade-offs to shape delivery plans that balance speed, quality and risk.
What's in it for you:
- Salary to £120k
- Bonus
- 25 days holiday
- Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Onsite gym and well-being champions
- X2 volunteering days per year
- Opportunity to make an impact as part of a new team in a role you can shape.
Apply now to find out more about this Data Platform Lead opportunity.
Data Platform Lead employer: Client Server
Client Server is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration in the heart of London. With competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits including life assurance and a wellness package, and the flexibility to work from home, employees are empowered to thrive both personally and professionally. Join a highly profitable Hedge Fund where your skills will be valued, and you will have ample opportunities for career progression in a senior role.
