Job Purpose:
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a key leadership role in designing, delivering, and maintaining the OCG Group data platform. You’ll combine deep technical expertise with strategic oversight of engineering projects, leading and mentoring team members to deliver high-quality solutions and drive best practices. In addition to owning technical delivery, you will support the Group Data Engineering Lead by stepping into leadership responsibilities when required, contributing to team continuity.
Key Accountabilities:
* Provide leadership, coaching, and mentorship to the data engineering team, acting as Team Lead during the line manager’s absence to ensure continuity and effective delivery.
* Develop, operate, maintain, and deploy data pipelines to extract, transform, and load data into the OCG Data Lake from internal and external sources, ensuring proper documentation.
* Deliver end-to-end data engineering projects, including scoping, development, and deployment, while collaborating with other data engineers across work streams to ensure consistency, scalability, and adherence to best practices.
* Champion the implementation of engineering standards and principles across all data solutions.
* Assess and monitor data quality, designing approaches to maintain agreed standards.
* Report regularly on progress, risks, and issues to the line manager and senior stakeholders across both project and support activities.
* Build strong collaborative relationships across OCG functions, with a particular focus on the Data and Analytics teams.
Key Skills:
* Experience leading, prioritising and delivering data engineering workstreams, while influencing stakeholders and mentoring engineers to drive delivery.
* Strong Experience of best practise modern analytics and big data architectures in an Azure environment with a focus on Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory and Power BI.
* Skills in SQL, Spark and Python.
* Experience with operational management of working data pipelines, including troubleshooting and communication with stakeholders.
* Experience in the monitoring, measuring and maintaining data quality.
* Experience with data modelling such as Kimball, Inmon or One Big table.
* experience in monitoring, measuring, and maintaining data quality, including knowledge of test approaches for automated data pipelines.
* Ability to work using Agile principles to deliver regular releases and improvements to users.
ODEON benefits:
* Bonus Scheme
* Pension Scheme
* Hybrid working (2-3 days per week in the office)
* Unlimited free cinema tickets for you, and 12 friends and family tickets every three months
* 40% discount on our food and drinks, including our in-cinema Costa Coffee stores
* Private Medical Insurance
* Critical Illness Cover
* Life Assurance
* Free access to our confidential Employee Assistance Programme an online platform that offers advice and support on topics including finance, health, and mental wellbeing
* The opportunity to gain professional qualifications through our Bright Lights Apprenticeship scheme
* Fantastic career development opportunities across our cinemas and support offices
At ODEON Cinemas Group, everyone is welcome. We make movies better by bringing all our incredible differences and our different ways of thinking together with our passion for cinema, to deliver inspiring entertainment experiences for our guests. We are all individuals, and we recognise that everyone brings something special to our team.
Starting from the moment you apply, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is embedded into all parts of the colleague journey, and we welcome individuals from all backgrounds. We select colleagues based on merit and the passion they show for their role.
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