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Data Engineering Manager

Travel Limited
Manchester
4 days ago
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Your role in the division is to lead the team developing our cloud data platform to further build-out our 'single source of truth' for company data. We have a recently-implemented technology stack and clear direction of travel, so your initial objectives will be to understand our business data and team capabilities to then expand and improve our Kimball-model data warehouse in Azure, focusing on new datasets, pipeline resilience, performance and security. You will lead and coach the team in deploying tools and processes to ensure good practice is embedded, in line with our strategic themes of quality, efficiency, empowerment, transparency and governance. That means you will be conversant with data warehouse modelling, source control, CICD and Infrastructure as Code. Our technology stack is based on Microsoft software: Azure, SQL Server and DevOps, using Terraform for infrastructure deployment. Our source data is also in Microsoft technology, currently on-premise in hosted data centres in the EU and US. We currently manage our work in Kanban, with the support of a dedicated Delivery Lead, to respond to rapid growth in use-cases for our data.


Responsibilities

  • Deliver good software development lifecycle processes are used for all our software artifacts, including use of source control, unit testing, CICD, IaC
  • Deliver an enterprise data model taking into account all our current and likely future data sources
  • Manage the improvement of our Kimball-style data warehouse in Azure
  • Lead and coach a team of engineers to build and maintain the platform
  • Partner with our delivery lead to manage the strategic roadmap and tactical workflow, ensuring that work items are delivered on time and with high quality, Flexible and home working policies.

Benefits

  • 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays.
  • 5% matched company pension contribution.
  • Modern office in central Manchester with a great space to collaborate with the team.
  • Quarterly social events to bring everyone from Calrom UK together.
  • Internal training academy to support your learning and personal development.
  • Additional company benefits to support your wellbeing and happiness!

Qualifications

  • Experience of team leadership, especially of hybrid on- and off-shore teams
  • Experience of managing a team's workload in collaboration with delivery, project or product professionals
  • Experience of modelling and building an enterprise data warehouse to support analytical workloads
  • Experience of using Azure services including Azure SQL Database, Data Factory, DevOps, Power BI
  • Experience of good SDLC practices: source control (git), CI/CD, test and release processes
  • Any experience using any of the following would also be a bonus in our environment: Dynamics CRM, Rabbit MQ, Hubspot, C# .NET development or legacy Microsoft data technologies (SSIS, SSRS)
  • Ability to communicate clearly with diverse teams, including across our geographic locations
  • Ability to identify when a business need is unclear or ambiguous and ask the right questions
  • Ability to translate a business need into a technical solution, considering scalability, security and resilience
  • Relentless approach to continuous improvement of both processes and individuals


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