Staff Data Engineer | £100k to £150k | Data Platform Ownership

Company: Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited
Apply for the Staff Data Engineer | £100k to £150k | Data Platform Ownership
Location: London
Job Description:

We’re partnering with a high-growth technology business looking to hire a Staff Data Engineer to play a pivotal role in defining the future of their data platform.

This is a genuine Staff Data Engineer opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex data challenges at scale, influencing technical direction and driving best practice across engineering teams.

As a Staff Data Engineer, you’ll take ownership of platform architecture, establish engineering standards and help shape the long-term data strategy. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders and engineering leadership to ensure the platform can support growing data, analytics and AI capabilities.

What you’ll be doing

  • Defining the technical vision for a large-scale data platform
  • Designing robust batch and real-time data pipelines
  • Driving best practices around data quality, observability and governance
  • Mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards
  • Partnering with platform, product and engineering teams on strategic initiatives
  • GCP / BigQuery
  • Kafka
  • dbt
  • Python
  • SQL
  • Terraform

What we’re looking for

  • Proven experience as a Staff Data Engineer, Principal Data Engineer or Lead Data Engineer
  • Strong Python and SQL skills
  • Experience with streaming technologies and modern data architectures
  • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and containerised environments
  • Ability to influence engineering direction without direct authority

This Staff Data Engineer position is ideal for someone looking to move beyond hands-on delivery and take ownership of architecture, scalability and platform strategy.

If you’re a Staff Data Engineer who enjoys tackling complex technical problems and wants to have a significant impact on the direction of a growing engineering organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

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Posted: October 23rd, 2026