Data Lead - Cititec Talent Ltd

12 month initial contract | Up to £1200/day Outside IR35 | London - Hybrid | Streaming, Lakehouse & Cloud Data A large trading organisation is rebuilding its enterprise data platform, bringing together streaming, storage, transformation and governance into one shared platform for the business. We need a hands-on Lead or Principal Engineer to turn architecture into working software: guiding event-streaming pipelines, production data pipelines on a modern lakehouse stack, and setting standards other engineers build on. You'll need: Led the build or major modernisation of a production data platform Strong hands-on experience with a major streaming technology (Kafka or equivalent) Production experience with a lakehouse/Spark-based analytics platform Strong Python/SQL and a major public cloud Comfortable mentoring engineers and setting technical direction across teams Bonus: Flink, dbt, Iceberg, data mesh/data contracts, trading or financial services background.