Lead Data Engineer

Overview

As Lead Data Engineer, you will design and enhance JN Bentley’s central data platform to support reporting, analytics and AI. You will guide data architecture and engineering while leading a data team to deliver secure, scalable solutions in the cloud. The role blends hands-on development with technical leadership, ensuring governance, quality and cost efficiency. You’ll work to advance data capabilities across the business, partnering with cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making. This is a high-impact role with a clear hook in modern cloud data platforms and an ambitious growth agenda.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working from Leeds office (2 days per week)
• competitive salary
• wide range of financial, lifestyle, health and wellbeing benefits

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data warehouse and Microsoft Fabric solutions
• Define data architecture standards, design patterns and engineering best practices
• Develop conceptual, logical and physical data models aligned with business requirements
• Design, build and maintain reliable data pipelines and integrations
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, files and third-party platforms
• Set standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage and consumption
• Support data governance, quality, security, lineage and access controls
• Optimise the performance, resilience, storage and cost of the data platform
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend solutions that meet business needs
• Provide technical leadership, design assurance and mentoring across the data team
• Line manage members of the data team, including objective setting, development, workload planning and performance support

Key requirements

• Strong experience in data architecture, data engineering or a comparable senior data role
• Experience designing and delivering modern cloud data platforms, ideally using Microsoft Fabric or Azure
• Strong knowledge of SQL, data modelling, warehousing, lakehouse architecture and integration patterns
• Experience with data governance, security, source control and automated deployment practices
• Strong communication, problem-solving and technical leadership skills
• Experience using source control tools such as Git
• Previous line-management experience, with the ability to develop, support and motivate technical team members

• communication
• problem-solving
• technical leadership
• Microsoft Fabric
• Azure
• SQL