Data Engineering Team Lead in England

Data Engineering Team Lead
£600 a day Inside IR35
Remote
3 months rolling

We are looking for a Data Engineering Team Lead to work within a dynamic, data capability to deliver Azure based data solutions using Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS and Power BI for a blue-chip Insurance customer on a Greenfield ETL, Data Warehouse and BI project.

You will work within a cross-functional team of fellow Data Engineers, as well as Architects, Business Analysts and Test Analysts to provision data ingestion, transformation, and dash boarding capabilities in an Agile environment.

You will be comfortable with stakeholder engagement and take ownership for the delivery of key solution components. As the Development Team Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring that the team delivers high-quality work that meets the requirements and expectations of our customers.

What you'll need:
To be confident in providing oversight and direction to the work conducted by the development team
Strong SQL skills, with significant experience in Microsoft SQL Server being desirable.
Comfortable with industry standard version control tooling, namely, Git and Azure Dev Ops and associated CI/CD pipelines
Demonstrable experience working across the full SDLC, from analysis and design, through build, and into live
Working knowledge of relational database design fundamentals (e.g. relational/dimensional modelling, indexing, partitioning)
Ensure work is conducted in line with the Definition of Done, e.g. code reviews, code quality, etc.
Excellent communication skills to elaborate and prioritize back log items. Working with the Business Analysts as proxy product owners.
Able to use your judgement and experience to articulate issues and implications of decisions to the customer.
Define and implement engineering best practices, e.g. source control
Create and update project documentation as needed
Be able to read and review artifacts created by the development team

Other relevant skills include:
Awareness of the Azure Cloud platform.
The ability to analyse data sources for needed metrics
General purpose languages for dealing with data e.g. Python
Optimisation of Power BI dashboards with a focus on usability, performance, flexibility, testability, and standardization
Build, test, and deployment of optimised data solutions for analytics and reporting (for example datamarts, views, perspectives, cubes)
Planning of data platform services including sizing, configuration, and needs assessment

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.