Data Engineering Team Lead

Gresham Hunt
London
1 year ago
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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).


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

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