Posted 21 July, 2026
Lead Data Engineer (Kafka/Kinesis)
Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
London, ENG, GB
Full Time
Job Description
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Lead Data Engineer
\n\n Up to £100,000\n
\n\n *Kafka or Kinesis required London (4 days onsite)\n
\n\n This is a great opportunity to join a high-growth organisation where you can take ownership of building and architecting a greenfield data platform for an AI-driven product.\n
THE COMPANY:\n\n This is an early-stage, venture-backed company building the operating system for modern property management through its AI platform.\n
THE ROLE:\n\n You will take ownership of the entire data architecture, acting as the most senior individual contributor within Data Engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on technical ownership rather than people management.\n
\n\n Key responsibilities include:\n
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- Designing and owning the company's data architecture from the ground up \n
- Building scalable batch and real-time data pipelines \n
- Developing data ingestion, storage, and transformation frameworks \n
- Supporting AI and machine learning infrastructure, including vector search systems \n
- Implementing data quality, monitoring, and observability practices \n
- Collaborating closely with AI, backend engineering, and product teams \n
- Optimising performance, scalability, and reliability of large datasets \n
- Influencing long-term technical strategy and laying foundations for the data function \n
\n You will bring strong capability in:\n
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- Python development and building scalable distributed data systems \n
- Data architecture design and pipeline development \n
- Batch and streaming data processing \n
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar) \n
- NoSQL and modern vector databases (e.g., Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector) \n
\n You will receive a salary of up to £100,000 depending on experience.\n
HOW TO APPLY:\n\n Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.\n
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