Lead Data Engineer

This role exists to provide technical leadership within the data engineering team, setting the standard for engineering excellence while remaining deeply hands-on. The Lead Data Engineer drives the design and delivery of scalable, resilient data platforms and pipelines that underpin Gymshark's ambition to be a truly data driven business. Sitting at the intersection of craft and collaboration, this role shapes technical direction, raises the capability of those around them, and ensures the team builds the right things in the right way.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

Technical Leadership:

●    Own and drive the technical design and architecture of data pipelines, data models, and platform components across the team.
●    Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, observability, security, and documentation, ensuring the whole team operates to them
●    Lead technical discovery, design sessions, and code reviews, providing constructive, actionable feedback that elevates team output.
●    Identify and drive resolution of technical debt, proactively surfacing risks and proposing pragmatic solutions.
●    Evaluate emerging tools and technologies (within the GCP ecosystem and beyond) and make grounded