Lead Data Quality & Platform Engineer

Randstad · City of London, London

Lead Data Quality & Platform Engineer at Randstad, based in City of London, London. This is a contract role.

Salary
Competitive
Location
City of London, London
Contract
Contract
Posted
1 day ago
Closes
23 Sep 2026
Sector
DevOps Engineer

Reference PR-1538945

About the role

Lead Data Quality & Platform Engineer

London 5 days in the office

Duration: 12-Month Contract

Rate: £500/day (Inside IR35)

A top-tier firm is seeking an experienced Data Quality & Platform Engineer to shape, govern, and optimise core data environments for a high-profile enterprise client.

In this pivotal role, you will go beyond simple pipeline building. You will be responsible for defining how data flows across heterogeneous sources, establishing durable data quality controls, mapping end-to-end lineage, and ensuring datasets are highly reliable, auditable, and performance-tuned.


What You Will Do
  • Design, build, and maintain preventive, detective, and corrective DQ controls (profiling, rule definition, thresholding, automated alerting, and root-cause remediation).
  • Craft complex SQL transformations, optimize query performance, handle advanced window functions, and design conformed dimensional models for curated platform layers.
  • Map end-to-end data flows from ingestion to serving, defining upstream/downstream contracts and data ownership boundaries.
  • Architect robust batch and streaming pipelines capable of handling CDC concepts, late-arriving data, incremental loads, and rerun safety.
  • Drive pipeline health monitoring, logging-driven diagnoses, and automated reconciliation checks to triage and remediate issues when data products break.
  • Establish pragmatic operating frameworks for DQ issue intake, prioritization, validation, and sustainment.

Essential Skills
  • Prior consultancy or banking industry experience
  • Strong Data Engineering background
  • SQL / Programming
  • Data Warehousing
  • Root-Cause Analysis
  • Data Governance
  • Leadership Skills

London 5 days in the office | 12 Month Contract | £500 a day Inside IR35

If this sounds like a fit, please apply directly to this ad or send your updated CV to [email removed].

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Reference: PR-1538945 · Posted 1 day ago · Closes 23 Sep 2026 · Listed via Randstad

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