Lead Data Engineer (Agentic) - #35289

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will own the data engineering architecture and technical direction of our client's Gen 3.0 cloud-native data platform on Azure, defining scalable and reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, data modelling, and analytics across products. This is a hands-on build and leadership role where you will develop the first working versions of solutions, build production-scale pipelines across the Medallion structure from Bronze to Silver to Gold, and ensure reliable delivery through to Power BI. You will set engineering standards, oversee data quality and governance, own platform performance, reliability and cost, and guide the effective use of AI coding agents in data work. You will also lead a small team of data engineers, guide solution design, review their work, resolve complex technical issues, and establish practices that enable the team to build and operate a reliable, reusable and scalable data platform.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Data Architecture and Platform Ownership: Own the architecture for ingestion, transformation and analytics delivery. Decide the patterns for pipelines, storage layout and workspace structure, and hold them across products so we end up with one platform rather than several. Decisions are recorded with the reasoning and revisited on evidence

Measures

• A published architecture that every new pipeline is built against

• New product data onboa