Salary: £85,000 - 95,000 per year Requirements: Experience line managing teams of data professionals. Prior experience designing data platform(s) within GCP, working hands on with; Airflow, Big Query, Data Flow, Data Fusion, and Data Stream. Deep understanding of Data Mesh/ decentralized design and Data Lake/Warehouse solutions. Hands on skills across the GCP tech stack, SQL and Python. Ability to lead cultural change across organisations, and manage senior stakeholders. Ability to work across multiple contexts and teams. Responsibilities: Lead the architecture, best practice and engineering strategy of data squads. Hands on data engineering work, utilising both python and SQL. Mentor and lead teams of engineers, checking and reviewing code, and setting standards. Ensure all data platform processes; including ingestion, quality, transformation, security, batch management, monitoring, alerting, and cost control are efficient. Design and help build the data platform – ensuring data is processed through semantic layers and can be modelled effectively. Lead changes across the organisation, adopting a decentralised design. Technologies: Airflow Cloud Flow GCP Python SQL Security More: We at VIQU are excited to partner with a national organization that is undergoing a significant transformation in its data infrastructure. We are hiring a Lead Data Engineer who will be crucial in designing the data platform within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role will involve a balance of technical engineering, architecture, and leadership. This position offers a competitive salary range of £85,000 - £95,000 per annum and is based in Manchester with remote flexibility, requiring once-a-month onsite attendance. last updated 8 week of 2026