Data & Development Lead
- Oxfordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide technical leadership to a team of 3 specialists across data engineering, automation, and systems development.
- Define and maintain a fit-for-purpose internal data and systems architecture, ensuring scalability and alignment with business needs.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex engineering solutions, setting technical direction and ensuring best practices.
- Develop and execute complex data engineering, development and technical change where required.
- Collaborate with the team to ensure cohesive and maintainable system design and integration.
- Guide team members in aligning their work to approved and prioritised initiatives, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
- Act as a motivational and developmental force, helping to grow the team's skills, confidence, and performance.
- Work closely with IT Operations, business stakeholders, and the broader Data & Innovation team to deliver impactful solutions.
- Significant experience in data engineering and system development, in particular Databricks, Microsoft technologies (Azure, Power Platform, M365) and integrations.
- Experience working with a broad range of SaaS applications such as Workday and Monday.com desirable.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor technical teams, ideally in a small, agile
- Comfortable delivering and supporting through hands on technical execution, as well as strategic planning and leadership.
- Strong understanding of data integration, automation, and system design.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder and team engagement skills.
- Translates overall strategy into meaningful direction for the team
- Adapts style and tactics to the needs of the person, audience or situation
- Thinks through the business implications of problems and situations
- Relentlessly removes barriers to performance excellence
- Actively encourages and supports individuals to realise their full potential e.g. providing mentoring and coaching
- Uses measures to identify shortfalls in product quality and client services and acts upon the information
- Encourages individuals to address and resolve conflicts in the team
- Ensures that disagreements and conflicts are brought out into the open
- Uses a broad range of sources to build a rich information base about the external business context
- Is resourceful in identifying and exploiting trends and developments