Delivery Lead (Data Engineering) Job at United Kingdom Full Time NEW

Delivery Lead (Data Engineering)

📍 Location: London / Watford, UK
🕒 Employment Type: Contract
📅 Duration: 6+ Months
🏢 Work Model: Hybrid

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Delivery Lead – Data Engineering to lead a large-scale Agile delivery program focused on lottery transaction reconciliation and financial balancing platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong delivery leadership, deep data engineering expertise, and extensive experience managing high-volume transactional systems within regulated environments.

This role requires a blend of program delivery management, stakeholder engagement, vendor coordination, and technical oversight of modern data engineering solutions built primarily using Python technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex data engineering program focused on transaction reconciliation and financial balancing.

• Own delivery governance, sprint planning, execution management, and release coordination across multiple engineering teams.

• Provide delivery leadership and technical guidance to Python-based data engineering teams.

• Drive implementation of scalable, high-volume data processing and reconciliation solutions.

• Ensure data accuracy, completeness, traceability, auditability, and compliance within regulated financial environments.

• Act as the primary point of contact for senior business stakeholders, technical leadership, and external vendors.

• Manage delivery within a multi-vendor ecosystem, ensuring alignment, accountability, and smooth integration between teams.

• Coordinate cross-functional dependencies, integrations, and delivery handoffs across platforms and vendors.

• Translate complex reconciliation and financial balancing rules into robust data engineering solutions.

• Define and track delivery KPIs, quality metrics, governance standards, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Proactively manage delivery risks, escalations, blockers, and issue resolution.

• Drive automation, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence across data pipelines and workflows.

• Ensure adherence to Agile methodologies, engineering standards, and best practices.

• Mentor senior engineers and promote a collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 15+ years of overall IT experience with strong expertise in data engineering and enterprise delivery leadership.

• Proven experience leading large-scale data engineering or reconciliation platforms in financial or transactional environments.

• Strong understanding of transaction processing, reconciliation, financial balancing, and audit-compliant systems.

• Hands-on knowledge of Python-based data engineering ecosystems and modern data platforms.

• Experience managing Agile delivery across multiple distributed engineering teams.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to engage senior leadership.

• Experience working within multi-vendor delivery environments.

• Expertise in delivery governance, release management, risk management, and quality assurance.

• Strong understanding of scalable data architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data observability practices.

• Experience with cloud-based data platforms and enterprise data engineering practices is highly desirable.

About Sperton

This position is being managed by Sperton, a global talent partner connecting high-performing professionals with leading organizations worldwide.