Data Platform Lead

Data Platform Lead

AWS | Snowflake | dbt | Team Leadership

Location: Cardiff - Once a week onsite

Salary: £90,000 - £105,000 + bonus

Industry: SME Financial Services

We're partnering with a highly data-driven organisation that is investing heavily in its data platform, analytics capabilities, and AI future. As the business continues to grow, data is playing an increasingly critical role in driving decision-making, customer experience, and product innovation.

As Data Platform Lead, you'll take ownership of a modern cloud-based data platform while leading a team of Data Engineers. This is a genuine player-coach role, combining hands-on technical delivery with people leadership, giving you the opportunity to influence both the technical direction of the platform and the growth of the engineering team.

What you'll be doing: Data Platform Lead

Leading the development and evolution of a modern data platform built on AWS, Snowflake and dbt.

Managing, mentoring and developing a team of Data Engineers while setting engineering standards and best practice.

Designing and delivering scalable, high-quality data pipelines, reusable data models and trusted datasets that power analytics, reporting and future AI initiatives.

Owning the platform roadmap, balancing business demand, technical debt, resilience, scalability and future platform capability.

Working closely with stakeholders across Technology, Product, Analytics and the wider business to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.

Exciting projects already underway include:

Re-architecting data models and consumption layers

Supporting the delivery of new digital products and customer experiences

Building AI-ready data foundations

Working alongside teams exploring machine learning and emerging AI capabilities

Driving improvements in data quality, governance, observability and platform maturity

What we're looking for

Strong hands-on Data Engineering experience

Expertise in AWS, Snowflake and dbt

Advanced SQL and modern data engineering practices

Experience building and supporting production-scale data platforms

Previous experience mentoring, coaching or l...