Lead Data Engineer

Company Description

Ready to join a team that's leading the way in reshaping the future of insurance? Here at esure Group, we are on a mission to revolutionise insurance for good!

We’ve been providing Home and Motor Insurance since 2000, with over 2 million customers trusting us to keep them covered through our esure and Sheilas’ Wheels brands. With a bold dedication for digital innovation, we're transforming the way the industry operates and putting customers at the heart of everything we do.

Having completed our recent multi-year digital transformation, we’re now leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights alongside exceptional service, to deliver personalised experiences that meet our customers ever-changing needs today and in the future.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our forward thinking Data department.

You’ll work in a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists and AI specialists to design and evolve scalable data platforms and modern data products that enable self-service analytics, advanced modelling, and AI-driven decision-making across our insurance business.

What you’ll do:

Lead on data engineering projects, managing a sub- team within engineering, building out our data warehouse & pipelines
Collaborate effectively across data science, analytics, product, engineering and commercial business teams
Build and support esure’s data products within our industry leading platform
Work with product managers, data & AI engineers to deliver technical solutions for our most pressing data problems including GenAI applications
Integrate data from a variety of sources, assuring that they adhere to data quality and technical standards. Migrating legacy systems into a modern scalable platform
Creating frameworks and processes for data pipelines across the data and analytics platform
Improve data engineering processes and roll these out across our team and wider data community
Set coding standards across the platform, naming conventions across data products, championing and enforcing both.
Work with architects on best design for data products, evaluating and experimenting with new data tools & supporting ML & AI infrastructure and workflows

Qualifications

What we’d love you to bring:

Strategic thinker, aligning multiple workstreams to deliver a scalable, high-quality data platform.
Develops the data function roadmap with thought leadership on tooling, technology, and guidelines.
Product-minded leader, solving customer and business data challenges.
Culture builder, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.
Deep expertise in data compliance frameworks, cost management, and platform optimisation.
Strong hands-on experience with modern cloud data warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake, AWS), SQL, Spark, Airflow, Terraform.
Advanced Python skills with orchestration tooling; solid experience in CI/CD (Git, Jenkins).
Proven track record in data modelling, batch/real-time integration, and large-scale data engineering.
Exposure to deploying Generative AI in production environments.

Additional Information

What’s in it for you?:

Competitive salary that reflects your skills, experience and potential.
Discretionary bonus scheme that recognises your hard work and contributions to esure’s success.
25 days annual leave, plus 8 flexible days and the ability to buy and sell further holiday.
Our flexible benefits platform is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
Company funded private medical insurance for qualifying colleagues.
Fantastic discounts on our insurance products! 50% off for yourself and spouse/partner and 10% off for direct family members.
We’ll elevate your career with hands-on training, mentoring, access to our exclusive academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources.
Driving good in the world couldn’t be more important to us. Our colleagues can use 2 volunteering days per year to support their local communities.
Join our internal networks and communities to connect, learn, and share ideas with likeminded colleagues.
We’re a proud supporter of the ABI’s ‘Make Flexible Work’ campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
And much more; See a full overview of our benefits here