Salary: £40,000 - 50,000 per year Requirements: Demonstrable experience in similar relevant technical managerial roles Strong experience of incident resolution, requests, changes, and problem-solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies Experience of Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server Extensive experience of implementing, managing, and supporting data platforms in a demanding environment Experience of JIRA and Confluence Understanding of FinOps; PaaS; Alerting and Monitoring Experience of managing teams of over 5 people in a complex, challenging environment setting and managing against SLAs and business objectives (desirable) Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Zero Trust architectures, and PaaS (desirable) Preferably educated to graduate level with a bachelors degree in business, computer science, or a related field Responsibilities: Line management of a number of direct reports within the team Resource management across the team, ensuring that the relevant workload associated with the team (Design, Project delivery, Operational and Change) are delivered as agreed Act as the Subject Matter Expert around the Data Platform capability Maintain the Data Platform for all Connells users, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption Lead on ensuring an appropriate and robust response to applicable incidents and ensure root cause analysis and resolution occurs Ensure an applicable out-of-hours support model is in place for 24x7x365 operational running Own the Data Platform designs and supplier relationships Support incident and change projects where appropriate Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams Ensure patches and upgrades are implemented in line with operational limits Technologies: Cloud Confluence Fabric Git GitHub Support JIRA PaaS React SQL Terraform LESS More: We are seeking a Data Platform Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. In this role, you will lead a team of technical specialists, managing our data estate while liaising with third-party providers. We are committed to supporting business objectives through secure, supportable, and scalable on-premises, cloud, and hybrid data platforms. We promote diversity and inclusivity in our workplace and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. last updated 4 week of 2026