Data Lead

InfoSec People Ltd
Glasgow
1 year ago
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I am delighted to be continuing our work with a fantastic Cyber Security start-up company.

We are looking for a Data Engineering Lead who will bring leadership and expertise to the way we exploit data collected by our award-winning security awareness product. We’re looking for an experienced data practitioner who’s as comfortable implementing data insights in an operational web application as they are setting the overall direction of how we collect and use data within our product to maximise value for our customers.


You will report directly to our CTO, as a senior member of our development team. You will be expected to mentor and line manage junior members of staff.


Responsibilities will include:


  • Data strategy – providing leadership on our overall data strategy and roadmap.
  • Data development – implementing data insights improvements in our production web application, either directly coded or via appropriate cloud service integrations.
  • Data science – analyse and draw meaningful insights from data collected by our product.

Key skills and experience:

  • Strong data engineering background.
  • Strong experience developing stable/production data analysis pipelines to deliver value to customers.
  • Experience with AWS Big Data services.
  • Definition of data strategies and roadmaps.
  • At least 5 years experience leading data engineering/insights teams.
  • Comfortable with data science tools and techniques to explore and understand collected data.
  • Experience recruiting/building a data team.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies.

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