Lead Data Engineer in Manchester

Role – Lead Data Engineer

Skills – Leadership / Python / Any Cloud

Location – Manchester

Work Pattern – Once every 2 weeks in the office

Salary – up to £80,000 plus benefits package including a significant Bonus.

The Company

We are looking for Data Engineer to join a very well-established company and data team.

They have a huge amount of data, it’s one of the strategic pillars of the company and they are heavily investing in a new system, which will be a vast improvement.

This role will focus on exploring solutions to maintain, improve, and scale their use of data.

They do an awful lot with data, it’s a huge asset to the business and they have a large number of people who have access to their data systems for analytical and insight purposes.

The Role

This is an amazing opportunity for an engineer to work on the development and implementation of a new system and exploit the benefits that modern, cloud native data systems can offer.

You will be working in a smaller sub-team of 3 but part of a much wider Data and Analytics function which includes Engineering, Data Science and Analytics.

In this role you will manage and lead a small team, we are looking for someone who can set objectives, look at team performance, training, development etc.

We are looking for leadership experience for this position.

The offer a hybrid policy, with 1 day every 2 weeks in the office, in Manchester – close to major transport links.

Responsibilities.

• Lead a team of engineers to create, maintain, and extend the analytics platform.
• Take ownership of data processing, including implementing frameworks that will allow you to scale data processing.
• Work with Architecture to ensure the team deliver value for our business.
• You will drive the adoption of strong CICD practises to reduce risks to deployments.
• Coach your team in best practice and coding standards. Work with the wider Data Engineering and Group Data team to share ways of working.
• Champion test-driven quality first engineering practises.
• Working with governance you will drive solutions that are scalable and robust and ensure we deliver quality data
• Working with stakeholders - managing the Analytics Platform, ensuring the platform is reliable, scalable, and secure.

Requirements

For this position we are looking for someone who has worked with a similar technology stack and someone who has some leadership experience of a small team or partial team.

Does not need to be loads.

• Some form of leadership / mentoring experience is essential.
• Experience with one of the main cloud providers.
• Python
• Terraform would be ideal.
• Experience in scaling data systems, ETL processes etc.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours, hybrid working arrangement.
• Annual Bonus - 25%
• 24 days paid annual leave each year, buy and sell scheme.
• Company Pension Scheme with excellent contributions.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives and private medical.
• Volunteer time, discounts and more.

Apply Now!

If you are an experienced Data Engineer and you are looking to progress with an organisation that has a fantastic approach to work in a supportive and creative environment, then look no further – this is the role for you!

Please note: Unfortunately we cannot offer sponsorship for this role.

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Role – Lead Data Engineer

Skills – Leadership / Python / Any Cloud

Location – Manchester

Work Pattern – Once every 2 weeks in the office

Salary – up to £80,000 plus benefits package including a significant Bonus.