Job Description
HEAD OF DATA ENGINEERING
£120,000 + BENEFITS
BIRMINGHAM (Hybrid)
A strong Head of Data Engineering with experience leading large teams and driving migrations to Azure would be a great addition to this company.
THE COMPANY:
We are working with a client in the financial services space offering specialist lending and savings products. They have been investing in their data and are in the middle of a migration moving from legacy infrastructure to Azure.
THE ROLE:
You'll be responsible for a 40-person function split across UK locations and offshore, ensuring mission-critical legacy systems continue to operate while leading the migration to modern Azure-based infrastructure. A Head of Data Engineering will need to:
* Lead and manage a 40-person Data Engineering team across multiple locations (UK and India).
* Manage and decommission four legacy data warehouses, while developing cloud-native solutions in Azure.
* Act as a mentor and technical guide to the wider engineering team during this cloud transition.
* Partner with third-party vendors to maintain and evolve the data estate
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
A successful Head of Data Engineering will have the following skills and experience:
1. Strong experience leading legacy-to-cloud data migrations (ideally to Azure).
2. Background working wi...