# Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer Hybrid - Attached to our Solihull, London or Hook office Full Time, Permanent Band 3 / £75,000 - £85,000 (dependent on experience) Here at Serco, we’re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to act as the technical authority for data engineering, driving architecture, standards, and delivery across a modern multi-cloud ecosystem spanning Azure, AWS, and Databricks. You’ll spend around 80% of your time hands-on, designing and building complex, enterprise-scale data solutions. The remaining 20% is just as critical: leading people, influencing stakeholders, and shaping how data engineering operates across the organisation. Databricks sits at the heart of our platform - this role requires someone who can deeply leverage the Databricks to enable scalable analytics, data science, and AI use cases across the business. As part of this you’ll: Define and enforce data engineering standards, patterns, and best practices across the organisation. Architect and deliver scalable, resilient data solutions across Azure, AWS, and Databricks, ensuring enterprise-grade performance and reliability. Lead complex engineering workstreams - unblocking teams, guiding technical decisions, and en

- **Id**: 4071738
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/serco-lead-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-21T02:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:43:04Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 82
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6575
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule, Health insurance, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Facilities Management, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Call Center Services

## Company

- **Id**: 1779743
- **Name**: Serco
- **Domain**: serco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/serco-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SuccessFactors

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 30
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.033
- **Repost share**: 0.033
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 75000
- **Max**: 85000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 113197

## Technologies

- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **MLFlow** — Optional: no
- **pySpark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Vault** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Spark** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 82

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: phd
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T13:43:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.479
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 82
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T17:17:34Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 113197
- **Is top pay**: no

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