Team Lead - Data Engineer (Outside IR35) Manchester Hybrid

Data Engineer, Team Lead - Contract

3 month contract - outside IR35

This role will sit within a global data team for a large brand, and will service multiple high priority projects across a portfolio, with data at the heart of it.

You'll bring significant long term experience in data engineering and project team leadership. You will need experience working across operational relational databases and analytics data platforms.

They require an experienced individual comfortable working in a dynamic, fast paced environment. You will have the opportunity to adapt your approach as project demands and opportunities vary.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading a small project team of 3-4 data engineers, supporting with daily activities, code reviews, driving standards and best practices
• Contribute to delivering scalable data pipelines (SQL, Snowflake, dbt) to both the internal data team and other teams across the business.
• Provide strong team leadership and comfortable with hands on data engineering responsibilities, in addition (ETL, modelling, pipeline optimisation)
• Demonstrate very strong understanding of performance tuning in both Microsoft SQL Server and Snowflake
• Work closely with business teams to understand their needs and manage relationships

Candidates must:

• Be commutable to Manchester, happy with regular onsite team meetings
• Be available within 1-2 weeks' notice
• Valid UK right to work
• Provide an updated copy of their CV for consideration