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Data Engineering Lead

Knutsford, United Kingdom
Cloud Engineer Data Engineering Manager DevOps Engineer Engineering Manager Platform Engineer Head Of Engineering DevOps Leader
Actively hiring

Data Engineering Lead

Barclays
Knutsford, United Kingdom
Cloud Engineer Data Engineering Manager DevOps Engineer Engineering Manager Platform Engineer Head Of Engineering DevOps Leader
Barclays
Actively hiring

hackajob is partnering with Barclays to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 

Join us as an Engineering Lead – Enterprise Data Platform for Barclays Customer, Comms and Mar Tech team, where you will play a pivotal role in leading the technical design and delivery of data solutions supporting the migration to a cloud-based Enterprise Data Platform (EDP).

 

You will be responsible for shaping how Customer, Comms and MarTech data is provisioned and configured in the Data Lab environments, integrated and consumed, enabling scalable, secure, and efficient data capabilities across the organisation.

 

This role sits at the heart of a strategic transformation to replace legacy data warehouses and platforms with a modern cloud-native EDP. You will lead engineering solution design, define new data architecture patterns including orchestration, and scheduling, and ensure seamless integration with downstream systems while maintaining high standards of data quality, security, and operational resilience.

 

The role will include; leading the design and build of scalable data pipelines and integrations on AWS, driving the migration of customer and MarTech datasets from legacy platforms to the EDP, and establishing robust DevOps and DataOps practices to ensure production-ready, reliable, and high-performing data products.

 

To be successful as an EDP Customer Engineering Lead, you should have:


• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, PySpark, SQL, and Databricks, with the ability to build and optimise scalable data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets
• Experience implementing CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms, including GitLab workflows, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and environment management
• Proven experience delivering AWS solutions including cloud infrastructure with a focus on performance tuning, monitoring, data quality, security, and cost optimisation

 

Some other highly valued skills may include:
• Understanding of Enterprise Data Platform concepts, including data products, domains, and consumption patterns with a focus on operability and production readiness
• Awareness of data security practices, particularly in handling sensitive data using governed and automated approaches
• Experience with file-based integration patterns, including managing constraints around file formats, splitting, and downstream system limitations

 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Knutsford.

hackajob is partnering with Barclays to fill this position. Create a profile to be automatically considered for this role—and others that match your experience.

 

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