Location: UK only (Remote working role)
Salary: £50,000 – £60,000 DOE
Full-Time | Fixed-term contract 9 months
Company Description
Lookthru specialises in delivering data-driven solutions that optimize processes and improve decision-making for businesses of all sizes, from startups to enterprises. By leveraging cutting-edge technology like Azure, AWS, Power BI and advanced ETL pipelines, Lookthru simplifies data consolidation, strategy, and visualization. The company ensures reduced manual dependencies and provides scalable, dynamic and long-term solutions tailored to client needs.
Role Description
This is a full-time remote role for a Lead Data Engineer. This is a hands-on leadership role suited to someone who enjoys designing modern data platforms whilst mentoring other Data engineers and helping shape technical best practices across the business.
You'll take ownership of the architecture and delivery of cloud-based data solutions, working closely with clients, analysts and developers to build robust, scalable data platforms. Alongside remaining technically hands-on, you'll provide technical leadership, support solution design, review implementations and help develop our data engineering capability as the company grows.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of modern cloud-based data platforms using Microsoft Fabric, Azure and AWS technologies.
- Architect scalable, secure and maintainable data solutions for a variety of clients.
- Design, build and optimise high-performance ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Develop robust data models, lakehouse and warehouse solutions using industry best practices.
- Provide technical leadership across projects, ensuring high standards of engineering quality.
- Mentor and support Data Engineers through coaching, code reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with clients and internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Define and promote engineering standards, governance and best practices.
- Lead technical discussions, solution workshops and architecture reviews.
- Troubleshoot complex data issues and identify opportunities for optimisation.
- Support project planning, estimation and technical decision-making.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and help drive innovation across the business.
Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience in Data Engineering, designing and delivering enterprise-scale data platforms.
- Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and/or Databricks.
- Excellent understanding of data architecture, modern lakehouse and warehouse design principles.
- Strong expertise in ETL/ELT development and optimisation.
- Experience designing scalable data models for analytics and reporting.
- Strong SQL skills across Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL.
- Experience with cloud-native data services within Azure and/or AWS.
- Experience developing solutions using Azure Data Factory or Microsoft Fabric Data Factory.
- Strong Power BI knowledge, including understanding downstream reporting requirements.
- Experience with Python and/or PySpark.
- Excellent understanding of data governance, security and performance optimisation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple projects.
- Experience mentoring or leading other engineers.
Pay: £50,000.00-£60,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Doncaster DN9 1PH
