Data Engineering Team Lead Financial Services
London, UK – Hybrid, 2 days/week in office
Salary: £70-75,000 + DOE
Gresham Hunt is currently partnered with a leading financial services provider who are seeking an experienced Data Engineering Team Lead to join their London-based team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in the development of the cloud migration strategy as well as maintaining the firms existing legacy on-prem database infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the establishment of a framework, processes, and systems for a central data view to run and improve the business with strategy and governance.
• Lead the migration of on-premise legacy databases to the cloud, including developing a strategy, plan, and implementation with other teams.
• Oversee the engineering processes to build data pipelines, integrate data sources, clean and transform data.
• Coach the team on techniques for building code to extract raw data and ensure data quality across the pipeline.
• Provide expertise on transforming raw data for downstream data sources.
• Guide the development of data tools for data transformation, management, and access.
• Advise the team on writing and validating code to test data platform storage and availability for improved resilience.
• Oversee the implementation of performance monitoring protocols across data pipelines.
• Coach the team on building visualizations and aggregations to monitor pipeline health.
• Implement solutions to minimize points of failure across environments.
• Oversee the design of data modelling and handling procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and policies.
• Work with stakeholders across directorates to address data concerns.
• Support assessment of data costs, access, usage, use cases, dependencies across products, and data availability for internal and external stakeholders.
• Build cross-functional relationships with IT, Security, and Architecture to support data requirement delivery to business stakeholders.

The Successful Candidate will have experience in:

• Team Leadership: Previous experience managing a team of Data Engineers and Analysts.
• Database Management: Extensive knowledge of MS SQL databases, both Azure cloud and on-premises, including design, modelling, and architecture.
• Cloud Migration: Experience in migrating legacy applications to the cloud.
• Data Tools and Programming: Proficiency in data tools and programming languages like Python, DAX, R, M, VBA, and the SQL Stack (SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).
• Data Visualization: Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlik, and Tableau.
• Data Engineering and Analytics: Proven ability to establish, develop, and implement a data engineering and data analytics practice area or function.
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively understanding and addressing stakeholder needs.
• Graphical Development Tools: Experience with tools like Data Flows, Ab Initio, and Power Apps (desirable).

For a confidential conversation please forward your CV to:

All candidates must currently be based in the UK with full right to work.