About the job
Join Sword Group, a premier provider of innovative business technology solutions across the Energy, Public, and Finance sectors. Our mission is to catalyze transformational change for our clients, leveraging cutting-edge technology, specialized teams, and deep domain expertise to establish robust technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. We are passionate about utilizing technology to address complex business challenges and collaborate closely with our clients to help them achieve their objectives.
About the Role:
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Data Engineer Lead to spearhead our expanding Data & AI business unit. In this strategic leadership role, you will report to the Data & AI Technical Director and significantly influence our engineering capabilities, standards, and technical strategies. You will guide a talented team of Senior Data Engineers, providing hands-on mentorship and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and scalable data solutions across various client projects.
In this position, you'll have the opportunity to work with state-of-the-art Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Purview, and Microsoft Foundry. You will play a crucial role in shaping solution design, architectural decisions, and maintaining delivery excellence. Engage with clients from diverse industries, facilitating discovery, design, and delivery processes, while also participating in pre-sales activities by contributing to client discussions, shaping proposals, and advising on solution strategies.
This role perfectly balances leadership, technical expertise, innovation, and client engagement, offering significant scope to make a lasting impact on our clients and the evolution of our Data Engineering services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, and develop Senior Data Engineers, fostering best practices and ensuring high-quality engineering outputs.
- Provide technical direction, oversight, and guidance across all data engineering projects.
- Deliver technical assurance through thorough reviews of solution designs, data pipelines, architectures, and implementation strategies.
- Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, cloud-native data solutions utilizing Azure technologies.
- Ensure adherence to best practices for ETL/ELT, data modeling, data lakes, governance, and optimization across engineering teams.
- Support the Data & AI Technical Director in shaping the engineering strategy, standards, and capability roadmap.
- Act as a senior technical advisor to clients, translating business needs into modern data engineering solutions.
- Facilitate discovery sessions, workshops, and technical design reviews with stakeholders.
- Assist the sales team by providing technical expertise during client discussions and contributing to solution design.

