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Head of Data Engineering

Harnham
West Midlands
5 days ago
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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:

  • Strong experience leading legacy-to-cloud data migrations (ideally to Azure).
  • Background working with SQL Server in a regulated environment.
  • Proven success managing large, distributed engineering teams (including offshore).

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary, dependent on experience. Salary is up to £120,000 On top of the salary there are some fantastic extra benefits.

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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