Tech Lead Data & AI

About the role

Tech Lead - Data & AI - Leeds

About Red Badger

We’re a tech and product consultancy, building enterprise software products for blue chip companies, multinationals and PLC’s. The best thing about Red Badger is; of course; the team. We’ve been around for 15+ years now and we are over 120 strong. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages. Headquartered in London we also have offices in Leeds and Cape Town.

The Role

Red Badger is looking for a Tech Lead to join our Data & AI practice. This is a delivery-focused role: you'll work directly with clients and Red Badger consultants, from all the cross functional disciplines, to shape complex technical solutions as an output from discovery phase, and then lead a team of data engineers to build the solution through to production. Based in Leeds with a national remit, you'll work closely with the Director, Data & AI, and partner on pre-sales and proposals to add technical credibility and deepen our client partnerships.

As a Tech Lead, you will work with one of our amazing Delivery Leads. Together, you will lead your team to deliver high quality software. The work we do for our clients involves dealing with the core complexities of their business and the technology we employ varies from project to project.

You love solving complex problems, and customer value is your north star. You are comfortable consulting with technology stakeholders outside of your team. You are a technology polyglot, and an evangelist for agile ways of working.

Day to day, you will spend roughly half of your time hands on, pairing with data engineers on the team, and helping them pick the right design to solve the problem. In the other half, you’ll be supporting the other functions (delivery, product, software engineering) and our clients with decisions impacted by the technical strategy of the project and providing support and line management to data engineers on your team.

Key Responsibilities

Discipline Expertise and Leadership

- Technology breadth: Deep, production-grade experience across AWS &/or Azure native services, with expert-level Databricks and/or Snowflake and an Agile delivery mindset.

- On AWS, you're fluent across the core services, for example:

- Storage & Lakehouse: RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SageMaker Lakehouse,

- Processing & ETL: Glue, EMR, Athena, CDC/DMS, DataBrew, Kinesis, dbt

- Data management & metadata: Lake Formation, Glue Data Catalog, SageMaker Catalog / DataZone

- AI: Bedrock (including AgentCore) and SageMaker AI

- On Azure, you’re fluent across the core services, for example:

- Storage & lakehouse: SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos, Blob, Data Lake, OneLake, Fabric Warehouse

- Processing & ETL: Fabric Data Factory, Data Factory CDC, Fabric/Synapse Spark, ADF, Synapse Pipelines, Fabric, dbt