Data Lead
Cititec Talent Ltd London, United KingdomData Lead
12 month initial contract | Up to £1200/day Outside IR35 | London - Hybrid | Streaming, Lakehouse & Cloud Data
A large trading organisation is rebuilding its enterprise data platform, bringing together streaming, storage, transformation and governance into one shared platform for the business.
We need a hands-on Lead or Principal Engineer to turn architecture into working software: guiding event-streaming pipelines, production data pipelines on a modern lakehouse stack, and setting standards other engineers build on.
You'll need:
- Led the build or major modernisation of a production data platform
- Strong hands-on experience with a major streaming technology (Kafka or equivalent)
- Production experience with a lakehouse/Spark-based analytics platform
- Strong Python/SQL and a major public cloud
- Comfortable mentoring engineers and setting technical direction across teams
Bonus: Flink, dbt, Iceberg, data mesh/data contracts, trading or financial services background.
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