Senior Data Practice Lead

Job summary

Location: London (UK) Department: Engineering Hours: Full-time ABOUT YLD***: YLD*** is a software engineering and product design consultancy, founded in 2013, headquartered in London, with delivery teams in Lisbon and Porto. We work with engineering and product leaders who know what good looks like and are frustrated by the gap between strategy and execution.

Benefits

Qualifications

• We have deep experience in regulated environments including financial services, payments, healthcare, and energy.

Responsibilities

• You don't need an existing public profile in the data community, but you'll need the appetite to build one and the technical depth to make it credible when you do.
• WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:
• Hands-on delivery (core, from day one)
• Doing hands-on data engineering work directly, pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them, not just guiding others
• Adapting to different client contexts: legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, transformation layers that need rescuing
• Guiding the wider team and unblocking hard technical problems as your remit grows beyond your own delivery
• Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review
• Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company
• Client and commercial (core, from day one)
• Joining client and prospect meetings as the technical authority on data, alongside our client services and commercial leads
• Shaping proposals and pitches, translating client problems into a credible data approach and a defensible scope
• Acting as the escalation point on live data engagements when technical judgement calls need weight behind them

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