Lead Data Engineer (Contract)

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Requirements

  • We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities
  • Candidates must be able to commute to Stratford once a week

What the job involves

  • We are recruiting for a Contract Data Tech Lead for a 6 month contract to start ASAP
  • Be a technical lead for key initiatives, act as a technical authority and knowledge source for the wider team, providing mentorship to help others grow their technical capabilities
  • Work in collaboration with Product and Project Managers, Architects, etc to identify requirements
  • Transition high level designs to delivery, by working closely with solution architects and supporting key transition activities
  • Provide significant contribution to test strategies and plans as determined by the project or initiative
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for scientific teams, translating research workflows and data requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Design and implement complex cloud solutions for scientific workloads, staying current with research-focused services
  • Apply SRE and DevOps best practices, implementing automation and CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil and improve reliability
  • Experienced with AWS and hybrid cloud architecture
  • Experienced with Infrastructure as Code, Python, R, CI/CD and Linux
  • Experience of cloud-native architecture and clouds services, various SQL and noSQL databases, as well as messaging queues

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Company: Deepstreamtech
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Location: London
Job Description:

Requirements

  • We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities
  • Candidates must be able to commute to Stratford once a week

What the job involves

  • We are recruiting for a Contract Data Tech Lead for a 6 month contract to start ASAP
  • Be a technical lead for key initiatives, act as a technical authority and knowledge source for the wider team, providing mentorship to help others grow their technical capabilities
  • Work in collaboration with Product and Project Managers, Architects, etc to identify requirements
  • Transition high level designs to delivery, by working closely with solution architects and supporting key transition activities
  • Provide significant contribution to test strategies and plans as determined by the project or initiative
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for scientific teams, translating research workflows and data requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Design and implement complex cloud solutions for scientific workloads, staying current with research-focused services
  • Apply SRE and DevOps best practices, implementing automation and CI/CD pipelines to reduce toil and improve reliability
  • Experienced with AWS and hybrid cloud architecture
  • Experienced with Infrastructure as Code, Python, R, CI/CD and Linux
  • Experience of cloud-native architecture and clouds services, various SQL and noSQL databases, as well as messaging queues

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Posted: May 18th, 2026