Data Engineering Team Lead

Role Overview

As a Data Engineering Team Lead, you will own the delivery of critical data pipelines and platform capabilities that power analytics, compliance, and AI across IG. You will lead a squad of engineers across London, India, and Poland — setting technical direction, upholding engineering standards, and growing talent within the team.

What You Will Do

Lead and deliver data pipeline and platform work within the GCP consolidation programme, owning squad commitments end-to-end across batch and real-time (Kafka) workloads, coach, develop, and performance-manage a squad of data engineers, drive data quality as a first-class concern, act as the technical point of contact for stakeholders, maintain delivery rigour.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines on GCP, demonstrated experience leading or technically mentoring a team of data engineers, strong grasp of data quality practices, solid understanding of SQL transformation patterns, clear and confident communicator.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale data pipelines on GCP
• Proven knowledge of Apache Kafka and real-time streaming architectures
• Demonstrated experience leading or technically mentoring a team of data engineers
• Strong grasp of data quality practices
• Solid understanding of SQL transformation patterns
• Experience managing ingestion estates with third-party connectors and in-house integrations

Benefits

• Tailored development programs
• Mentoring opportunities with leaders
• Clear career progression
• Extra time off for volunteering and community work