Data Engineering Team Lead

Data Engineering Team Lead

Financial Services
London, UK - Hybrid, 2 days/week in office
Salary: £70-75,000 + DOE

Gresham Hunt is currently partnered with a leading financial services provider who are seeking an experienced Data Engineering Team Lead to join their London-based team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in the development of the cloud migration strategy as well as maintaining the firm's existing legacy on-prem database infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

1. Oversee the establishment of a framework, processes, and systems for a central data view to run and improve the business with strategy and governance.
2. Lead the migration of on-premise legacy databases to the cloud, including developing a strategy, plan, and implementation with other teams.
3. Oversee the engineering processes to build data pipelines, integrate data sources, clean and transform data.
4. Coach the team on techniques for building code to extract raw data and ensure data quality across the pipeline.
5. Provide expertise on transforming raw data for downstream data sources.
6. Guide the development of data tools for data transformation, management, and access.
7. Advise the team on writing and validating code to test data platform storage and availability for improved resilience.
8. Oversee the implementation of performance monitoring protocols across data pipelines.
9. Coach the team on building visualizations and aggregations to monitor pipeline health.
10. Implement solutions to minimize points of failure across environments.
11. Oversee the design of data modelling and handling procedures to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and policies.
12. Work with stakeholders across directorates to address data concerns.
13. Support assessment of data costs, access, usage, use cases, dependencies across products, and data availability for internal and external stakeholders.
14. Build cross-functional relationships with IT, Security, and Architecture to support data requirement delivery to business stakeholders.

The Successful Candidate will have experience in:

1. Team Leadership: Previous experience managing a team of Data Engineers and Analysts.
2. Database Management: Extensive knowledge of MS SQL databases, both Azure cloud and on-premises, including design, modelling, and architecture.
3. Cloud Migration: Experience in migrating legacy applications to the cloud.
4. Data Tools and Programming: Proficiency in data tools and programming languages like Python, DAX, R, M, VBA, and the SQL Stack (SSMS, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).
5. Data Visualization: Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Qlik, and Tableau.
6. Data Engineering and Analytics: Proven ability to establish, develop, and implement a data engineering and data analytics practice area or function.
7. Stakeholder Management: Effectively understanding and addressing stakeholder needs.
8. Graphical Development Tools: Experience with tools like Data Flows, Ab Initio, and Power Apps (desirable).

For a confidential conversation please forward your CV to:
All candidates must currently be based in the UK with full right to work.