Data Engineering Lead

Role: Data Engineering Lead

Location: London (Hybrid working)

Salary: up to £100,000 plus benefits

Investigo have partnered with an exciting growing software business in London in search of someone to build, lead and develop the engineering and analytics teams.

We are Data Engineering Lead to shape company strategy with data harvested from the platform, and they will be responsible for scaling the data engineering and analysis function in an environment based primarily on cloud-based SaaS systems.

This responsibilities will include:

• Develop and lead a team of data analysts and engineers
• Drive the design, development, and launch of high quality data models and pipelines in production
• Together with product and development leads, take ownership of strategy and define all the data aspects of the solution
• Work across all solution verticals to educate product teams to embed a data first strategy in each solution
• Develop the data roadmap with a strong focus of growth, commercialisation, and innovation
• Create standard data analytics solutions within the product as well as develop specialised solutions within the embedded business intelligence tool
• Manage customer data access requests and execution of data export
• Deliver actionable internal insights to allow for continuous improvement at all levels
• Ensure that customer data is not compromised and protected to safeguard our customers unique selling points
• Setup and maintain a model for data science development
• Own and keep informed about global data protection regulations to ensure this is translated into development requirements and data management principles
• Advise the commercial team on data ownership to ensure commercial contracts are fit for purpose
• Establish and own quality and governance standards for data and master data management, build processes to maintain accountability and ownership of good quality data

The key skills we are looking for are:

• 5+ years' experience in a senior leadership position managing team of data engineers and data analysts
• Experience with data engineering frameworks on AWS ( S3, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis and RDS) or similar solutions on another major cloud computing platform
• Experience with one or more Big Data Technologies (Hadoop, Hive, Hbase, Pig, Spark, etc.)
• Have a strong engineering background
• Deep experience and expertise in ETL optimization, designing, coding, and tuning big data processes
• Knowledge and experience with optimization of the distribution, partitioning, and parallel processing of high-level data structures.
• Experience of working with legacy structures to develop up- to-date evidence models and data assets
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, retaining and scaling diverse and high-performing teams
• Assesses and evaluates risk to balance pace with quality product delivery
• Experience in building products and taking them to market
• Deeply passionate about the value the solution brings to global trade
• Adapting approaches to leadership and strategies to the need of the team and situation

If this sounds like something you are interested in, or want to learn more information, then please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to sunny.nakra@investigo.co.uk