Lead Data Engineer London
London, United Kingdom
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- Lead Data Engineer - London
FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Lead Data Engineer to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 6-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role based in either London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Salford.
Our client is seeking Lead Data Engineer to take a key role in the delivery of a secure, scalable Analytical Platform for internal analyst teams. Operating within the Analysis & Corporate Services function, this role is integral to driving the department's analytical capabilities by improving access to high-quality data and modernising analytical infrastructure.
This is a delivery-focused role requiring a hands-on engineer with strong technical capabilities in cloud infrastructure, data pipeline development, and secure data environments. The platform will enable departmental analysts to work entirely within a secure Python-based environment without reliance on local data downloads.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing and finalising data infrastructure to support complex analytical workloads
- Building and maintaining secure, efficient data pipelines to ingest, process, and serve internal and external datasets
- Implementing engineering standards and best practices, including version control, testing frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code
- Supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and contributing to quality assurance processes to ensure a smooth roll-out
- Collaborating with analysts, architects and project leads to ensure platform capabilities align with user needs
- Preparing the platform for an initial user testing phase targeted for October/November
- Identifying and resolving performance or security issues within the data infrastructure.
- Ensuring the long-term stability, scalability and maintainability of the platform post-deployment
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Job IdJD3609270
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationLondon, United Kingdom
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EducationNot mentioned