Data & Development Lead

Job Title: Data & Development Lead

Business Area: Data & Innovation

Role Purpose:

A highly capable and inspirational Data & Systems Lead to bring critical technical leadership that blends hands-on technical delivery with strategic oversight, guiding a small team of technical specialists to deliver high-quality data engineering, automation, and systems development solutions.?

Responsible for helping to shape and deliver our data and systems landscape, providing technical direction, and ensuring alignment with D&I strategy. This role is a hands-on management position, enjoys mentoring others, and is passionate about building scalable, modern data and technology solutions in a professional services environment.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills and Experience

• 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 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.

As role holder of this position you will be required to be a role model of the client's Values and be proficient in the following:

Trust (Commitment & Leadership, Influencing & Impact)

• Translates overall strategy into meaningful direction for the team
• Adapts style and tactics to the needs of the person, audience or situation

Excellence (Analytical Thinking, Planning & Prioritising)

• Thinks through the business implications of problems and situations
• Relentlessly removes barriers to performance excellence

Pride (Developing People, Delivering Results)

• Actively encourages and supports individuals to realise their full potential eg providing mentoring and coaching
• Uses measures to identify shortfalls in product quality and client services and acts upon the information

Team Spirit (Building Relationships, Team Work)

• Encourages individuals to address and resolve conflicts in the team
• Ensures that disagreements and conflicts are brought out into the open

Progressive (Researching the Business Environment, Creative Thinking)

• 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

Please send me CV's if you meet the requirements.