Lead Data Engineer - London

FDM Group

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 12 days ago
LocationUKAdvertising SalaryNot Specified
  • Lead Data Engineer - London
About The RoleFDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Lead Data Engineer to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in either London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Salford.Our client is seeking Lead Data Engineer to take a key role in the delivery of a secure, scalable Analytical Platform for internal analyst teams. Operating within the Analysis & Corporate Services function, this role is integral to driving the department's analytical capabilities by improving access to high-quality data and modernising analytical infrastructure.This is a delivery-focused role requiring a hands-on engineer with strong technical capabilities in cloud infrastructure, data pipeline development, and secure data environments. The platform will enable departmental analysts to work entirely within a secure Python-based environment without reliance on local data downloads.Responsibilities
  • Designing, developing and finalising data infrastructure to support complex analytical workloads
  • Building and maintaining secure, efficient data pipelines to ingest, process, and serve internal and external datasets
  • Implementing engineering standards and best practices, including version control, testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and contributing to quality assurance processes to ensure a smooth roll-out
  • Collaborating with analysts, architects and project leads to ensure platform capabilities align with user needs
  • Preparing the platform for an initial user testing phase targeted for October/November
  • Identifying and resolving performance or security issues within the data infrastructure.
  • Ensuring the long-term stability, scalability and maintainability of the platform post-deployment

FDM Group