Data Engineering Manager

Location: Edinburgh
Job Reference: 1281473
Role Grade: B4 - TLS

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About This Role

Summary of the role

Our Data engineering managers are responsible for the engineering teams in the Data delivery and Data management scopes.

These are key positions within the Data office as they provide technical leadership, mentorship and team development, as well as contributing to the development and implementation of our Data strategy.

Each team is responsible for one of the scopes, but there is a certain amount of crossover and synergies.

The Engineering Manager is responsible for organising the team in an efficient and effective manner and prioritising the work to align with organisational priorities.

This includes providing technical leadership during development phases, Agile based delivery and engineering best practices.

Please be aware that the role is available in any of the UK Diligenta sites. Ideally you would be based near Peterborough or Edinburgh, but applicants are welcome to apply from all sites, but travel will be required.

Please note, as this is a people leadership role the successful applicant will be supported to succeed in their new role through enrolment in the appropriate level of our Diligenta Leadership 'Step' Pathway (subject to eligibility criteria), designed to drive quality and consistency across the organisation. 
  
What you’ll be doing
  • Contribution to, creation and implementation of best practices to coding standards, naming conventions and design briefs
  • Overseeing coding standards and repository management
  • Ensuring the correct documentation is created and maintained for all products
  • Working with the PM and BA tier to estimate work, prioritise and maintain the backlog
  • Provide Team leadership by setting standards for behaviour and fostering a culture of collaboration and growth
  • Manage team development plans ensuring each team member has a meaningful technical and career development plan
  • Work towards the creation, implementation and evolution of competency frameworks for all engineering positions
  • Lead the engineering team in the design, building and maintenance of scalable and robust pipelines and supporting MS Fabric infrastructure
  • Carry out strategic planning for team expansion
  • Work with PM resources to schedule, complete and document post sprint and project retrospectives, ensuring that identified actions are carried out as required
  • Identify, qualify and implement tooling requirements
  • Provide high level technical overviews and insights to senior leadership
  • Provide incident management as required and follow up with comprehensive RCAs
  • Will help create and implement a DataOps environment
What we’re looking for
  • Educated up to at least A-level or equivalent standards
  • Solid understanding of data governance concepts
  • Analytical skills
  • Stakeholder management
  • Familiar with data privacy regulations such as GDPR
  • Prior experience in a similar role as either an Engineering manager, technical lead or Senior engineering position in either a software or data delivery environment
  • Knowledge or understanding of ETL/ELT solutions
  • Knowledge of Relational and non-relational data management systems
  • Understanding of big data environments
  • CICD tools and processes
  • GIT source safe
  • Working in an Agile delivery environment
  • Coaching and developing teams
  • Software or Data product delivery

The hiring manager to contact is: Emily Rintoul Email: emily.rintoul@diligenta.co.uk

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