Lead Data Engineer
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Up to £90,000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 November 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 3BE |
| Company: | Evolution Money Ltd |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 98 |
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Job Advert
Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Company: Evolution Money
Location: Manchester City Centre
Job Type: Full-time
Basic Salary: Up to £90,000 (Based on experience)
About Us:
Evolution Money is a Certified B Corp with a social purpose. At Evolution Money, our mission is to redefine financial inclusion by
providing bespoke lending solutions to UK homeowners. We are committed to empowering individuals and fostering long-term financial
well-being. Through innovative and purpose-driven approaches, we aim to challenge traditional norms and create a pathway for those
who might be overlooked by conventional financial institutions.
The Role:
Evolution Money is giving you the chance to work with new cutting-edge technology maintaining your competitive advantage. Our
vision is to enable the most effective data driven decision to carry out meaningful insight to improve efficiency and recognise
opportunities. You will be supporting and working alongside internal teams (Risk, MI and Operations) and our customers to
visualise the potential of the data and how it can be used effectively.
We are a business committed to delivering analytics, insights, and data products that power our strategy and operations. We
believe in clean architecture, scalable systems, and using the latest tooling to stay ahead. We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer
to help design, build, and lead our data ecosystem on Microsoft Azure. You will be reporting to the Head of Engineering & Data.
As Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the end‑to‑end design, architecture, development, and deployment of
data systems. You will lead a team of data engineers / tester, set best practices, ensure data quality, performance, and
scalability, and help deliver insights and data products that enable business decisions. A key part of the role is bringing in
your expertise with modern Azure tools, to build robust, future‑proof data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
* Defining and building data warehouse and reporting solutions.
* Managing day to day operations of the data / reporting team.
* Write consultancy level reports to be consumed by technical and non-technical audiences.
* Chair daily standups and sprint ceremonies, distributing and overseeing the team’s delivery of objectives and requests.
* Create high level documentation to be interpreted and understood by technical and non-technical audiences.
* Explain technical concepts and the underlying principles to solutions during customer engagements.
* Prioritise and effectively manage your time amongst several concurrent projects.
* Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
* Support scheduled maintenance and deployment release activities after hours.
* Define and own the overall data architecture roadmap, ensuring it’s aligned with business strategy, compliance, and
scalability.
* Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data warehouses, data lakes, and real‑time streaming where
needed.
* Leverage Azure Fabric (and associated Azure data services: Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks, Purview, etc.) to build
performant, observable, and secure data platforms.
* Lead and mentor a team of data engineers & analytics engineers: setting coding standards, architectural reviews, best
practices, peer code reviews.
* Ensure data governance, data quality, lineage, security and compliance are built into all data solutions.
* Understand business, data and reporting requirements by collaborating closely with projects / product, engineering, operations,
analytics/BI teams and non-technical teams to understand requirements, deliver data products, and embed data‑driven
decision‑making.
* Optimise for cost, performance, operations: monitoring, alerting, scaling, capacity planning.
* Stay up to date with newest features and capabilities in Cloud technologies (Fabric, Synapse, Data Lake) and drive adoption and
best use.
* Provide technical leadership in estimation, technical debt, documentation, and trade-off decision.
Qualifications (minimum):
As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be expected to demonstrate certain skills to successfully fulfil the role. These include:
* Experience of troubleshooting problems both on-premises and in the cloud.
* Monitor database performance to avoid bottlenecks and critical conditions to ensure continued delivery of service.
* Excellent understanding of the SQL Server architecture.
* Excellent understanding of T-SQL queries, stored procedures, user-defined functions, views, indexes, and developer code
associated with the database.
* Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills, identifying root causes and offering solutions.
* Azure, azure DevOps, SQL platform, T-SQL, Power BI, MySQL, Cosmos DB.
* Building and improving Data Architecture or modern data platforms.
* Experience with data storage technologies such as data lakes, data warehouse, and traditional SQL databases.
* Data Warehouse and Data Modelling Design (snowflake, star schema etc.)
* Data lake development using big data technologies or cloud native solutions.
* Complex Data integration pipelines with varied types and sources of data (direct integration, API based, ftp transfer).
Qualifications (Desirable):
* PowerShell scripting experience.
* Crystal Reporting.
* Alternative Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
* Google Analytics, BigQuery.
* Experience of high availability and disaster recovery implementations and maintenance.
* Experience managing and troubleshooting Windows Server.
* A natural desire to continue developing skills and helping customers to modernise their systems as appropriate.
Here’s what you’ll get back:
* Up to 25 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays
* Your birthday off, every year!
* A healthcare cash plan
* A contributory pensions scheme, matched up to 5%
* Long Service Awards
* Cycle to work scheme
* Life Assurance
Company Culture:
Join us on our journey to redefine financial inclusivity. As we continue to evolve, so do the possibilities for those we serve.
Our goal is not just to provide loans but to architect a future where financial empowerment is a reality for everyone. At
Evolution Money, we value creativity, innovation, and a collaborative spirit. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional
results and creating a positive impact in the financial services industry. We believe in fostering a work environment that
encourages growth, learning, and teamwork.
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to create a working environment where every employee is
respected.
We will provide fairness, and respect to all our prospective employees, and all hiring decisions are based on merit.
We aim to ensure that no job applicant is placed at a disadvantage by practices or requirements which disproportionately
disadvantage protected groups, and which are not justified by the demands of the role.
Everyone is welcome at Evolution Money! We are proud in creating an inclusive and diverse culture in our Evo Team community. We
want to ensure that you feel comfortable and can give your best throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applications
from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.
Please get in touch with us at any stage of recruitment to discuss it: evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk [evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk]
If you need any support with completing this application, please contact evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk [evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk]
and we will be happy to assist.
Evolution Money is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We offer interview to anyone with disability who meets the minimum
criteria for the role.
Job Title: Lead Data Engineer
Company: Evolution Money
Location: Manchester City Centre
Job Type: Full-time
Basic Salary: Up to £90,000 (Based on experience)
About Us:
Evolution Money is a Certified B Corp with a social purpose. At Evolution Money, our mission is to redefine financial inclusion by
providing bespoke lending solutions to UK homeowners. We are committed to empowering individuals and fostering long-term financial
well-being. Through innovative and purpose-driven approaches, we aim to challenge traditional norms and create a pathway for those
who might be overlooked by conventional financial institutions.
The Role:
Evolution Money is giving you the chance to work with new cutting-edge technology maintaining your competitive advantage. Our
vision is to enable the most effective data driven decision to carry out meaningful insight to improve efficiency and recognise
opportunities. You will be supporting and working alongside internal teams (Risk, MI and Operations) and our customers to
visualise the potential of the data and how it can be used effectively.
We are a business committed to delivering analytics, insights, and data products that power our strategy and operations. We
believe in clean architecture, scalable systems, and using the latest tooling to stay ahead. We are seeking a Lead Data Engineer
to help design, build, and lead our data ecosystem on Microsoft Azure. You will be reporting to the Head of Engineering & Data.
As Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for driving the end‑to‑end design, architecture, development, and deployment of
data systems. You will lead a team of data engineers / tester, set best practices, ensure data quality, performance, and
scalability, and help deliver insights and data products that enable business decisions. A key part of the role is bringing in
your expertise with modern Azure tools, to build robust, future‑proof data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
* Defining and building data warehouse and reporting solutions.
* Managing day to day operations of the data / reporting team.
* Write consultancy level reports to be consumed by technical and non-technical audiences.
* Chair daily standups and sprint ceremonies, distributing and overseeing the team’s delivery of objectives and requests.
* Create high level documentation to be interpreted and understood by technical and non-technical audiences.
* Explain technical concepts and the underlying principles to solutions during customer engagements.
* Prioritise and effectively manage your time amongst several concurrent projects.
* Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and document changes.
* Support scheduled maintenance and deployment release activities after hours.
* Define and own the overall data architecture roadmap, ensuring it’s aligned with business strategy, compliance, and
scalability.
* Design, build, and maintain data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data warehouses, data lakes, and real‑time streaming where
needed.
* Leverage Azure Fabric (and associated Azure data services: Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks, Purview, etc.) to build
performant, observable, and secure data platforms.
* Lead and mentor a team of data engineers & analytics engineers: setting coding standards, architectural reviews, best
practices, peer code reviews.
* Ensure data governance, data quality, lineage, security and compliance are built into all data solutions.
* Understand business, data and reporting requirements by collaborating closely with projects / product, engineering, operations,
analytics/BI teams and non-technical teams to understand requirements, deliver data products, and embed data‑driven
decision‑making.
* Optimise for cost, performance, operations: monitoring, alerting, scaling, capacity planning.
* Stay up to date with newest features and capabilities in Cloud technologies (Fabric, Synapse, Data Lake) and drive adoption and
best use.
* Provide technical leadership in estimation, technical debt, documentation, and trade-off decision.
Qualifications (minimum):
As a Lead Data Engineer, you will be expected to demonstrate certain skills to successfully fulfil the role. These include:
* Experience of troubleshooting problems both on-premises and in the cloud.
* Monitor database performance to avoid bottlenecks and critical conditions to ensure continued delivery of service.
* Excellent understanding of the SQL Server architecture.
* Excellent understanding of T-SQL queries, stored procedures, user-defined functions, views, indexes, and developer code
associated with the database.
* Excellent analytical & problem-solving skills, identifying root causes and offering solutions.
* Azure, azure DevOps, SQL platform, T-SQL, Power BI, MySQL, Cosmos DB.
* Building and improving Data Architecture or modern data platforms.
* Experience with data storage technologies such as data lakes, data warehouse, and traditional SQL databases.
* Data Warehouse and Data Modelling Design (snowflake, star schema etc.)
* Data lake development using big data technologies or cloud native solutions.
* Complex Data integration pipelines with varied types and sources of data (direct integration, API based, ftp transfer).
Qualifications (Desirable):
* PowerShell scripting experience.
* Crystal Reporting.
* Alternative Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
* Google Analytics, BigQuery.
* Experience of high availability and disaster recovery implementations and maintenance.
* Experience managing and troubleshooting Windows Server.
* A natural desire to continue developing skills and helping customers to modernise their systems as appropriate.
Here’s what you’ll get back:
* Up to 25 days’ annual leave + Bank Holidays
* Your birthday off, every year!
* A healthcare cash plan
* A contributory pensions scheme, matched up to 5%
* Long Service Awards
* Cycle to work scheme
* Life Assurance
Company Culture:
Join us on our journey to redefine financial inclusivity. As we continue to evolve, so do the possibilities for those we serve.
Our goal is not just to provide loans but to architect a future where financial empowerment is a reality for everyone. At
Evolution Money, we value creativity, innovation, and a collaborative spirit. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional
results and creating a positive impact in the financial services industry. We believe in fostering a work environment that
encourages growth, learning, and teamwork.
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion and aim to create a working environment where every employee is
respected.
We will provide fairness, and respect to all our prospective employees, and all hiring decisions are based on merit.
We aim to ensure that no job applicant is placed at a disadvantage by practices or requirements which disproportionately
disadvantage protected groups, and which are not justified by the demands of the role.
Everyone is welcome at Evolution Money! We are proud in creating an inclusive and diverse culture in our Evo Team community. We
want to ensure that you feel comfortable and can give your best throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applications
from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.
Please get in touch with us at any stage of recruitment to discuss it: evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk [evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk]
If you need any support with completing this application, please contact evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk [evohr@evolutionmoney.co.uk]
and we will be happy to assist.
Evolution Money is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We offer interview to anyone with disability who meets the minimum
criteria for the role.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
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