Job Title: Senior Technical Lead
Location: Norwich, Norfolk (3 Days a week)
Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead who combines hands-on engineering excellence with strong leadership and stakeholder management. You will own the end-to-end technical delivery of data platforms and pipelines built in AWS-with a focus on AWS Glue, Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA), and Python-and collaborate closely with Directors, Senior Architects, and Program Leadership to deliver business outcomes at scale.
This is a player-coach role: you will design, build, review, and optimize complex data workflows while mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices.
Ideal for: Someone who has delivered multiple production programs in a modern AWS data engineering landscape, can communicate trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders, and can lead teams through ambiguity to predictable, high-quality outcomes.
Your Responsibilities:
1. Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and cost-efficient ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Python (PySpark), and MWAA (Airflow).
2. Define solution architectures, data models, orchestration patterns, and CI/CD for data workflows.
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