Lead Data Engineer

Location: London (2 days per month on site)

Employment Type: Permanent

Salary: Up to £95,000 + bonus

Start Date: Immediate

I'm working with a leading UK digital consultancy, 30+ years in business, delivering large-scale data and AI programmes for government, healthcare and enterprise clients.

They're one of the most established Palantir delivery partners in the UK, and they're hiring a Lead Data Engineer to grow their Data & AI practice.

• Lead a small team of engineers and own whole components end to end: design, build, test, fix
• Stay hands‑on, building data pipelines at scale on Palantir Foundry, Spark and the cloud
• Set the engineering standards and coach your team to hit them
• Work directly with clients, scope the work and help shape new proposals
• Manage and develop your own people
• Experience leading data engineers on data‑heavy systems
• Deep knowledge of Spark, Databricks or other distributed processing tools
• Solid data modelling, analytical and operational
• Able to explain technical design clearly to anyone
• Palantir Foundry is a big plus, but strong Spark leads keen to learn it will be considered