Lead Data Analytics Engineer

• Act as a senior technical authority for Analytics Engineering, providing direction on complex solutions and technical decisions.

• Drive engineering standards, modernisation, platform performance and reduction of technical debt.

• Mentor engineers and raise technical capability through communities of practice and knowledge sharing.

• Partner with the Head of Analytics Engineering to shape the technical roadmap and future engineering capability.

Snowflake • DBT • SQL • Python • Git/CI/CD • Semantic Layers • Data Contracts • Data Quality & Observability • Snowflake Cortex • LLMs & AI Agents • AWS

• Python and modern data observability/lineage experience.

• Experience enabling self-service engineering across distributed analytics teams.

Success Measures

• Data Modelling: Greater reuse and consistency of enterprise models with reduced duplication.

• Automation: Measurable reduction in manual engineering effort and improved delivery velocity.

• Empowerment: Squads increasingly able to independently build and operate trusted Data Products.

• Engineering Excellence: Improved reliability, performance, cost efficiency and overall engineering maturity.

• Technical Leadership: Recognised as the technical lead who drives delivery through hands-on contribution, accelerates engineering outcomes, and enables teams by building reusable capabilities rather than relying solely on governance or oversight.

• Innovation: Successful delivery and adoption of AI-powered engineering capabilities, automation frameworks, and modern engineering practices that create measurable business value.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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