Lead Data Engineer - Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency - G7

Location: Swansea This Lead Data Engineer role sits within DVLA's data platform team, working on modern, large-scale data systems that drive better decisions, insights and digital services. Why this role stands out Lead engineering for high-impact data products across DVLA Work with modern technologies including Databricks, Spark, and lakehouse architectures Shape standards and best practice across a growing data function Collaborate with product teams, analysts and data scientists Play a key role in improving digital services at national scale What you'll be doing Leading the design and build of data pipelines and data products Developing robust data models and integrations across systems Ensuring data is processed efficiently for analytics and business intelligence Driving best practice and standards across data engineering teams Supporting performance optimisation and balancing cost, scalability and reliability Working across teams to enable reuse of data and improve delivery Who this role could suit This role could be a strong fit if experience includes: Leading data engineering or data platform delivery Strong SQL and Python development skills Experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark, Databricks) Data modelling, warehousing and large-scale data processing Mentoring teams and setting engineering standards Interested?

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