Data Leadership Role

Transform Your Career with a Strategic Data Engineering Leader

Unlock your potential in our fast-paced environment, where innovation and collaboration thrive. As a Strategic Data Engineering Leader, you will be responsible for driving the development of leading property and market data insights to power Real Commercial products.

• You will lead end-to-end technical delivery of complex initiatives under our product management pipeline using agile methods and frameworks working with cross-disciplinary teams.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team, serving as a subject matter expert in data engineering and related technologies.
• Contribute to the design and architecture of scalable, efficient, and secure data solutions, considering long-term scalability and maintainability.
• Establish effective ways of working within and across teams.
• Embrace continuous learning, leveraging latest development trends to solve complex challenges.
• Drive delivery practices running agile scrum ceremonies and producing agile artefacts.
• Contribute to the adoption of best practices, coding standards, and engineering principles across the team to ensure a high-quality and maintainable codebase.
• Collaborate with the development team to implement shift-left testing practices, ensuring early and frequent testing throughout the development lifecycle.
• Conduct performance analysis, optimization, and tuning of data processing workflows and systems to enhance efficiency and meet performance targets.
• Support the team's iterations, scope, capacity, risks, issues, and timelines.
• Participate in technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural reviews to maintain code quality, identify improvement opportunities, and ensure adherence to standards.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering their professional growth, assisting them in overcoming technical challenges and create a culture of quality and efficiency, leading to reduced time-to-market and enhanced product quality.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data governance policies, data quality standards, and data management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, such as automation, tooling enhancements, and process optimizations, to increase productivity and operational efficiency.
• Act as a strong advocate for data-driven decision-making, promoting a data-driven culture within the organization.

Requirements:

• Proven experience (8-13 years) as a developer, thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys being hands-on tackling technical challenges and leading teams to deliver innovative solutions.
• Well-versed in SQL, Python, ETL / ELT pipelines.
• Experience with Data modelling, Data pipelines, Data consumption, Data analysis and documentation, Data warehousing.
• Knowledge of delivery approaches such as TDD, CI, infrastructure automation.
• Advocate for code quality and security.
• Leadership and mentoring experience.

What We Offer:

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working.
• Transport options to help you get to and from work.
• Meals provided on site in our office.
• Flexible leave options including parental leave, family care leave and celebration leave.
• Insurance for you and your immediate family members.
• Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing.
• Continuous learning and development opportunities to further your technical expertise.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking - be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience.