Head of Data Engineering

I'm currently looking for a Head of Data Engineering to join a global organisation going through a Data and AI modernisation journey. This is a data engineering leadership role, not a general engineering management role. They want a practitioner who has built modern data platforms. This is a hands-on, practical leadership role. You should know how to use modern data technologies to design scalable solutions that deliver real business outcomes.

This is a brand new role within this organisation and a great opportunity for someone to shape this data platform.

Job Oveview/Technical Spec

Own the design, build and optimisation of ingestion, transformation and data provisioning on our Snowflake-centric platform.

Hands-on experience leading Snowflake platform implementation, ideally in an asset management/Professional services setting

Implement a medallion architecture, with clear standards for promoting data from raw to curated to consumption-ready layersLead, Inspire and mentor data engineers across the UK and India, and set the standards for delivery

Ideally Asset Management/Professional Services background

Partner with Data Product, Analytics and AI teams to implement semantic models

Technical Skills - Snowflake, including Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, Dynamic Tables and Snowpark

Advanced SQL and Python

Data transformation frameworks such as dbt

If you would like to discuss this role, reach out for further discussion.