Red Chair Recruitmentis hiring aLead Data Engineerfor a rapidly growing tech company in retail analytics and financial automation.You'll take ownership of building a new cloud data platform as the business moves from on-prem SQL Server/SSIS to a modern cloud environment. This is a hands-on technical lead role with real influence over architecture, tooling, and data strategy.Key ResponsibilitiesLead design and delivery of a new cloud data platform.Migrate SQL Server, SSIS, and Python workflows to the cloud.Build scalable ingestion pipelines for ePOS, accounting, and third-party data.Implement data quality, validation, monitoring, and lineage.Optimise Power BI datasets and performance.Partner with software engineering on integrations.Define standards for modelling, cost control, and operational excellence.Support long-term data, analytics, and AI roadmap.Experience & Skills5+ years in data engineering or data platform development.Strong SQL Server expertise (modelling, optimisation, ETL).Cloud data platform experience (Azure/AWS/GCP).Skilled in modern pipelines, orchestration, and transformations.Power BI modelling and performance tuning.Solid understanding of governance, lineage, and reliability.Strong problem-solving and communication.Nice to Have:ADF, dbt, Airflow; AI/ML exposure; retail/financial/SaaS experience; CI/CD for data platforms.