Lead Data Engineer (Cloud)

BAE Systems

📍 Preston, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Full-time other-general Posted March 03, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Lead Data Engineer (Cloud)

Location: Preston, Yeovil, Portsmouth, Glasgow or Frimley – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £55,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Building and operating ingestion pipelines into the lakehouse

Developing Spark transformation jobs and reusable pipeline patterns

Orchestrating workflows in Airflow (raw > bronze > silver > gold)

Implementing manifest-driven transformation using JSON configuration stored in MongoDB or CosmosDB

Maintaining Delta Lake tables and trouble shoot pipeline reliability/performance

Your skills and experiences:

Deep understanding of modern data engineering principles, data lifecycle, and enterprise-scale architecture.

Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and quality frameworks, with abil...