Head of Data Engineering - London, United Kingdom - Jefferson Frank

Jefferson Frank

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Head of Data Engineering
London, England, United Kingdom, Technology Full time

Description

About

This company is bringing technological innovation to the market infrastructure of a long -established sector-Proxy Voting, Shareholder Disclosure and Identification.

Founded in London, from very beginning their mission focused on benefitting the whole eco system, rather than just one part or one player within it.

This ethos is endorsed by investment from a unique and global consortium of the industry's most influentialfinancial institutions.

They currently serve 29 markets and are growing their global footprint fast.

With offices in UK, Israel and Australia, their Shareholder ID and Vote Connect products can serve all markets globally, with their flagship Vote Connect Total product providingcomplete end-to-end digital connectivity in 12 key markets around the world.

They are a fast-growth company and have already gone from employees in the last two years.

The role:

My client are looking for Head of Data Engineering to drive data utilization into business value.

This is a unique opportunity to join the growing business and establish both data solutions and organization in their journey to convert their operational datainto business value.

Responsibilities

Design & build missioncritical cloud based data pipeline & platform to serve various company functions and customers 24/7, enabling data democratization, experimentation and selfservice
Master business domain & operational data schemes and drive data catalogue; promote common terminology across company and customers
Provide operational analytics & insights, reports & dashboard, for stakeholders and customers
Partner with product to achieve data monetization
Admin all data sources in production; ensure data security, privacy, lose prevention and compliance across all data sources in production
Build & lead diverse and geo distributed organization of data engineers and data analysts
Formulate and implement agile & data engineering processes
Foster excellence and continues improvement, enhance engineering toolset and contribute to data practices across company
Engage and collaborate with other engineering directors, CISO, product, operation, project, and account managers
Engage 3rd party partners to enhance knowledge & skills and reduce time to market
Contribute to roadmap planning and own related execution
Reports to Director

Requirements:

2+ years experience as Head of Data Engineering with strong handson mentality
Experience designing and building native cloud data pipeline, data warehouse/lake and self service solutions
Experience administrating SQL and NoSQL data stores; strong SQL skills essential
Experience in driving data utilization, insights and monetization
Proven experience in building a high performing team (~10 people)
Experience with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, AWS QuickSight)
Well versed in industry bestpractices for software development, including CI/CD methodologies and tooling
Detail oriented, analytical mind and business acumen
Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
Outstanding collaboration skills; team player
Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical discipline
Experience with the multiregion solutions based on AWS data technologies
key advantage:
Coding skills in one or more language
advantage:
Experience working in the fintech industry
advantage.
Familiarity with data science and machine learning
advantage