Lead Data Engineer - Milton Keynes, United Kingdom - Lifesearch

Lifesearch

Verified Company

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

If you want to join a newly formed Data team, and you have the tenacity and technical expertise to shape and influence how data will drive our business growth, this could be the opportunity for you.

In this exciting new role you will be required to work closely with senior leaders across the business. With the primary responsibility to develop and manage LifeSearch's data platform which underpins our Business Intelligence, Machine Learning and CRM capabilities
- all this needs to be managed well to meet the needs of the business.

There are several primary strategic directives in this role which will directly contribute to achieving our growth plans. You will ensure that our data is well-managed and ready for consumption by the business.

This will require the integration of multipledata sources (both cloud and on-prem), developing data transformation pipelines, building a new reporting data warehouse, creating a single view of the customer, measuring and improving data quality, and developing machine learning pipelines.

This is a highly technical role so a proven track record of developing data pipelines and products is critical, including a high level of proficiency in SQL and Python.

A good level of experience of Data modelling and BI solutions is also required. Experienceof Machine Learning Engineering and CRM are highly desirable. High coding standards and experience of Dev Ops/MLOps, Azure, Synapse, Snowflake and Databricks is desirable.

Great people skills are vital as you will be working with and influencing, colleagues at every level of the organisation.

You'll be developing highly complex data products and solutions so good stakeholder management and business judgement is essential,as you manage long running projects, multiple priorities, and balance the need for delivery over scalability.

There is a high degree of autonomy in workload management and prioritisation, and only moderate level of supervision, as it is a highly specialised, face-paced and skilled role.

You will be expected to self-manage effectively and demonstrate a strong work ethic to lead the business in an area that is new to us.

Not only will you define the future path of the data engineering function for the business but you will also bring thebusiness with you, educating them as you support them.

Our whole business of 315 colleagues currently are based across 3 sites London, Leeds and Milton Keynes.

You would be expected to spend some time in all of our offices with one being your main base (on a hybrid contract/2 days per week in the office basis).

Why we think we are awesome

We have a multiaward winning culture. We've been given the highest honour in the Best Companies Awards and been named number three in the Sunday Times Top 100 Companies To Work For.
Diversity is vitally important to us. Our business is made up of colleagues from every walk of life. Whoever you are, you are welcome here.
Long, successful careers with lots of personal and professional growth are a given.
There's lots of reward boosts and perks like private healthcare, discounted gym memberships, tech loans, electric car leasing, Cycle To Work, retail cashback and vouchers.
Hybrid working is standard so you can be as fully brilliant at work as you are in your home life.
Our business value of Care means we have wellness programmes to keep colleagues fit, happy and healthy and our own mental health squad called the Listening Ears