Lead Analytical Engineer

Setup: Freelance (Daily rate / Limited Company / Umbrella / Sole Trader)

Overview

We need a Lead Analytics Engineer to define, scale and future‑proof data practices for a complex Energy Intelligence Platform operating at real‑time scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical architect for scalable, reliable analytics data models built on modern best practices.
• Define and enforce analytics engineering standards across the data organisation, including CI/CD, testing and modular design.
• Design advanced dimensional data models to support highly complex analytical and operational scenarios.
• Own the long‑term vision for data modelling, quality and governance, including GDPR incident response.
• Partner closely with Product and senior stakeholders to translate business goals into clear, scalable technical solutions and shape the analytics roadmap.

Must‑Have Skills

• Mastery of dimensional data modelling and complex analytics engineering solutions.
• Expert‑level SQL with strong hands‑on experience using dbt.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of new standards, tools and patterns without direct authority.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Deep, end‑to‑end understanding of the data lifecycle from ingestion through to consumption.
• Ownership of organisation‑wide data modelling or analytics engineering strategy.
• Experience designing and implementing data governance frameworks.
• Leading rapid proofs of concept for modern data tooling.

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