Lead Engineer, Data Platform

About the role

The Data Platform Engineering team builds the platform that Tide's data producers and consumers rely on: backend engineers, data engineers, data scientists and, increasingly, AI agents. We own how data is produced, moved, stored, modelled, governed and served across the UK, EU and India, on GCP with BigQuery at the core.

What you'll do

• Design and deliver self-service paths so engineers can onboard new sources, datasets and pipelines without a ticket queue, with access, masking
• Improve ingestion and transformation capabilities so data is fresher and more reliable, handling ordering, duplicates, late data, deletes, replay and backfill
• Apply governance in what you build: residency, PII masking, least-privilege and just-in-time access, retention and erasure, and lineage
• Set SLOs, freshness and quality checks, and alerting that tells on-call what matters
• Find the main cost drivers in data platforms and pipelines, and add guardrails and attribution that teams can act on

What you need

• Open to freshers
• SQL
• Python
• Data modelling
• ETL
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Any graduate

Good to have

• IAM
• Incident response
• Learning and development
• BigQuery
• GCP