Lead Data Engineering

What you’ll be doing

This is a developer first role in which you will design, build, and lead on the development and support of scalable data products for our business stakeholders.

Agile development through story planning, estimation and retrospectives.
Lead the continual improvement of our solutions, i.e. process improvements / operational monitoring / automation opportunities / security.
Provide leadership to our other Data engineering development and support team, contribute to upkeep of our strategic data platform architecture, the data engineering community and associated standards.
Collaborate with architects, designers, analysts, product specialists, other software and data engineers – in the support of our data products.
Continual improvements using engineering excellence best practices.
Demos and knowledge transfers to stakeholders around product developments.
Spread your experience and knowledge to junior engineers.
Improve automated testing and deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
Expectation to line manage small team of junior data engineers.
Continual learning through internal and external training.

What you'll bring

Mandatory

Proficient in at least two of the following: Hadoop, GCP or AWS for creating Big Data solutions.

Skilled in using technologies such as Scala or Java.
Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Deployment strategies.
Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code tools.
Experienced in using Confluence, JIRA, or other Atlassian tools.
Knowledgeable in software version control with Git or SVN.
Capable of presenting technical issues and successes to team members and Product Owners.
Has experience of people management or desire to manage individuals on the team

Nice to Have

Experience with some of these- Python, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, Kinesis Analytics, BigQuery, Dataflow, BigTable, and SQL.

Enthusiastic about learning and applying new technologies (growth mindset).
Ability to build new solutions and support our data solutions/products.

What's in it for you

10% on target bonus

BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
Life Assurance Cover
Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
2 weeks carer’s leave
World-class training and development opportunities