Data and AI Engineer

Lead Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer - AWS, Snowflake, CI/CDLocation: Heathrow - 1-2 days per week onsiteContract: Immediate start until December 2026, likely extension into 2027Rate: Up to 630 per day all-inclusive - Inside IR35 / PAYELead Data Engineer - AWS / Snowflake / Data and AIWe are seeking an experienced Lead Data Engineer / Senior Data Engineer to join a major airline''s Data and AI team, providing hands-on technical leadership across a key data engineering delivery programme.This role is ideal for a senior data engineer, lead software engineer or data engineering technical lead with strong AWS cloud engineering experience, modern software development practices and the ability to mentor engineers. Snowflake experience is highly desirable.You will drive engineering best practice, improve data delivery processes and introduce scalable, reusable solutions using automation, CI/CD and modern DevOps methodologies. Experience or a strong interest in AI-assisted software development and engineering productivity is also beneficial.Key ResponsibilitiesLead hands-on data engineering and software engineering delivery across the 2026 data workstream.Provide technical leadership, coaching and mentoring to data engineers and software engineers.Design and implement scalable, reliable and maintainable data engineering solutions on AWS.Apply cloud engineering best practices across data pipelines, data integration and data processing.Implement Continuous Integration (CI), ..... full job details .....