Lead Data Engineer

The role

You will lead a small team of data engineers while remaining hands-on in designing, building, and operating data systems. You will use a platform engineering approach to build reliable capabilities for compensation benchmarks, customer-facing tools, and AI agents.

What you will do

• Build and operate pipelines, integrations, and data services
• Design interfaces between ingestion, transformation, and downstream applications
• Shape and deliver the data roadmap with Product, Data Science, and Insights
• Build data quality, governance, and security into delivery
• Integrate data systems into shared development, deployment, and monitoring practices
• Own the reliability and day-to-day support of production data systems
• Use AI-assisted tools for development, testing, documentation, and investigation
• Lead the team's delivery planning and ways of working
• Line manage and coach a small team of data engineers
• Partner with software engineers, product managers, and data colleagues

Required qualifications

• Six-plus years’ experience in data engineering
• At least two years in a team leadership role
• Strong Python and SQL skills
• Experience building and operating production data systems
• Experience with data modelling, transformation frameworks such as dbt, and workflow orchestration
• Experience applying platform engineering principles to data systems
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD)
• Practical understanding of reliable data processing, including schema changes, retries, safe reprocessing, and backfills
• Experience using monitoring and data quality checks to investigate failures and improve reliability
• Practical use of AI-assisted engineering tools
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, set team goals, and deliver value for users and the business
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment with a bias for action

Benefits

• Company ownership (meaningful equity stake)
• 37 days paid time off (25 days holiday + 4 wellness days + 8 public holidays)
• Up to 6% pension matching scheme
• £60 a month wellness allowance
• Private healthcare cover with AXA
• Personal worldwide travel insurance
• 6 weeks work from anywhere per year
• Income protection insurance
• 16 weeks fully paid birthing parent leave, followed by 4 weeks at 50% pay
• 8 weeks fully paid leave for non-birthing parents

About the company

Ravio is a European leader in compensation data, helping companies build stronger teams through a real-time data platform. They serve more than 1,200 clients and aim to become the global go-to place for compensation data and tools.