Join a Leading Growth business on its transformative journey to become the UK's most recommended businesses in their industry Lead Data Engineer Salary: £70-90k Location: Reading – Hybrid Benefits: Competitive Role Overview: As Lead Data Engineer, you will be part of the Corporate Data team, reporting directly to the Senior Leadership team. You will lead a small team of data engineers, overseeing the design, build, and maintenance of the infrastructure and systems that collect, store, and process corporate data for reporting and analysis. Key Responsibilities: • Lead and manage a team of data engineers. • Design, build, and maintain data infrastructure and systems. • Ensure effective use of Microsoft Fabric and Synapse analytics platform. • Collaborate with various stakeholders, including Data and Systems owners, Data Analysts, Data Architects, Infrastructure Architects, and external suppliers. Experience required • Dynamic and hands-on leader who excels in managing and coaching a team. • Thrives in a collaborative environment and adapts to changing priorities with ease. • Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Deep understanding of DataLake, Lakehouse, and Warehouse paradigms. • Extensive experience in developing and maintaining data pipelines for ELT/ETL from various data sources, including databases, APIs, text files, and Parquet. • Expert knowledge of the Microsoft Fabric Analytics Platform (Azure SQL, Synapse, PowerBI). • Proficient in Python for data engineering tasks, including data ingestion from APIs, creation and management of Parquet files, and execution of ML models. • Strong SQL skills, enabling support for Data Analysts with efficient and performant queries. • Skilled in optimizing data ingestion and query performance for MSSQL or other RDBMS. • Familiar with data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. • Highly analytical and tenacious in solving complex problems.