Lead Data Engineer at Vallum, Remote/London, £Contract Rate

Lead Data Engineer

Contract outside IR35

Mostly Remote

The Lead Data Engineer/Technical Lead will own the end-to-end technical delivery of a data migration and platform modernisation programme in AWS.

This role acts as the single technical point of accountability, setting architecture, defining standards, and coordinating delivery across workstreams. While the programme includes data engineering, the focus is heavily on DevOps, infrastructure, and platform engineering, enabling scalable, secure, and automated migration and ingestion of enterprise data.

Required Experience & Skills

• 5+ years in data/platform engineering, including leadership experience
• Strong AWS experience: S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC/networking, DMS
• Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience delivering large-scale data migrations, including CDC approaches
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Understanding of data platforms (eg Snowflake/CDP) and ingestion pipelines
• Exposure to AI/ML enablement frameworks (.eg AWS SageMaker) and supporting infrastructure for model training, deployment
• Experience with dbt/ELT patterns (beneficial, not core focus)
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills