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Cactus IT Solutions UK Ltd

Lead Enterprise Data Engineer (SC Cleared)

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

12-02-2026

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Skills

Leadership Test Architecture Organization Team Leadership

Job Specifications

Role skills & responsibilities

 Team leadership & delivery:

Set standards, direct engineers, review designs, unblock delivery, mentor the team; plan and coordinate across internal squads and suppliers; manage risks/issues to meet EDP milestones.
Stakeholder coordination: Engage effectively with product owners, analysts and technology leads; report progress and risks to senior stakeholders and the SRO with concise status updates and decisions.
Technical leadership: Own EDP architecture on Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse patterns, OneLake organization); define and implement ingestion and transformation pipelines (Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks); establish modelling standards for the gold layer and semantic models; performance/cost optimization; lineage/observability; governance (RBAC/security, data retention).
Multi‑source integration: Coordinate reliable ingestion/orchestration, testing and release practices.
Operational readiness: Ensure documentation/run‑books and non‑functional requirements (security, resilience, performance) are met.

Current EDP milestone – Gold‑layer modelling (context for urgency)

Country/facility risk parameter processing progressing; initial gold‑layer documentation produced.
Bi‑weekly Golden Layer review cadence in place; test data preparation underway for report validation.
 Target outcome: baseline gold‑layer model components to enable consistent semantic models and reporting.

About the Company

Digital landscape continues to evolve rapidly and at Cactus IT Solutions UK Ltd, we believe that sound experience and right skills are needed to stimulate ideas and build solutions to thrive. Our passion and commitment along with the perfect combination of experienced recruiters, empower the organisations by providing them with highly skilled resources in achieving their goal. The future has always been in favour of those who make high-velocity decisions, build capabilities, foster connectivity, create sustainable growth and... Know more