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We share your motivation to progress your career and achieve your ambitions – so we want to let you know about the latest Chief Engineer (Data Product)- London role. Check out the details for this vacancy, with a world-leading airline company, below:

Location: London, waterside (Hybrid, 1 day a week in office)

Contract ended: 6 months

Hours: Monday to Friday (37.5 hours a week)

Rate: £700-800 per day through UMBRELLA (Inside IR35)

Job purpose:

Join our innovative airline client Software Engineering team as a Software Engineering Lead where you’ll play a key role in guiding teams to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure software solutions. With a focus on large scale full-stack development, this role is ideal for those who thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment, bringing expertise in Platform Engineering, AWS, Microservices, and DevOps.

What You’ll Do:

• As an extension of our Software Engineering’s Centre of Excellence, lead internal and external teams of software engineers, fostering a culture of trust, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Assess and help develop and execute engineering strategies, ensuring scalable, high-performance software solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define technical requirements and translate them into actionable development plans.
• Proactively evaluate the current state of the data platform development and work with CoEs to drive sustainable improvements in the team and across the organisation.
• Drive the adoption of modern Data Engineering and DevOps practices in the team to enhance software delivery and operational efficiency.
• Champion best practices in software engineering, ensuring security, maintainability, and performance.
• Present technical solutions and progress to stakeholders, translating complex concepts into clear business value.
• Build strong relationships across teams, acting as a bridge between engineering and business functions.

What You’ll Bring to British Airways:

• Proven experience delivering an end-to-end data platform.
• A deep understanding of data engineering practice, particularly Data Lake, Data Warehousing, Analytics, and Reporting.
• Strong knowledge of ETL pipeline design, data optimisation, and governance.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts clearly.
• Experience with DevOps tools and methodologies, enabling efficient and secure software delivery.
• Ability to work closely with development teams to enable self-service capabilities and improve efficiency.
• A mindset of continuous improvement, always looking for ways to enhance developer productivity.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset, with the ability to drive innovation and change.
• Ability to balance between applying the fundamentals and taking a pragmatic solution.

Your Experience:

• Proven experience in full-stack software engineering, with a strong technical foundation.
• Expertise in Python, Github, AWS, and modern cloud-native architectures.
• Knowledge of AVRO/Parquet, BI/Visualisation, NoSQL, Data Governance tooling
• Experience leading teams in an agile development environment.
• Strong DevOps knowledge, with experience in CI/CD pipelines and automation.

Start Date

ASAP

Interested in applying? Just reply with an up-to-date copy of your CV to get the ball rolling.

Or if it is not quite right for you, but you have someone in mind for the role – please let me know.