Data & Analytics Principal Engineer - Edinburgh

Motability Operations Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Híbrido; GBP 90 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Annual discretionary bonus

28 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Electric/Hybrid car salary sacrifice

Cycle to Work

Life assurance 4x salary

Health screening

Employee discounts

Healthcare apps access

Volunteering day

Resumo da oferta

Motability Operations Ltd is seeking a highly experienced data leader to drive data strategy and lead a multi-skilled team of data and quality engineers. The role blends hands-on technical work with management, supporting major programmes and data products across the business.

The ideal candidate will have deep BI and analytics experience, strong SQL, cloud data warehousing, and stakeholder collaboration across UK sites. Hybrid working is offered with some travel for project needs.

Qualificações

• This role requires proven experience in business intelligence, data analytics, or a related field.
• Experience with Oracle, Snowflake databases or similar.
• Knowledge of ELT tools e.g. DBT, ODI or similar technology.
• Strong knowledge of data management principles, database systems, and data warehousing concepts.
• Detailed knowledge of SQL, writing clear, concise and performant SQL queries.
• Proficiency in business intelligence tools and technologies (e.g., OAS, Power BI).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with stakeholders across offices.
• Experience in managing multi disciplined data teams and cloud infrastructure (AWS, OCI).
• Experience with Power BI and semantic models, data quality validation and data modelling techniques.
• Experience with advanced analytics techniques, including predictive modelling, data mining, and awareness of AI/ML.

Responsabilidades

• Provide leadership to inspire and motivate a multi-skilled data and quality engineering team.
• Lead the implementation of the data analytics strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Coordinate cross-team collaboration to embed consistent data engineering practices.
• Serve as escalation point for deployments or production issues and support rota.
• Travel to MO sites as required to support key programmes.

Conhecimentos

Data leadership

BI strategy

SQL

Power BI

Oracle

Snowflake

ELT/ETL

Data modelling

Data quality

AWS/OCI

Team management

Stakeholder management

Ferramentas

Oracle

Snowflake

DBT

ODI

Power BI

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We use innovation to shape data so it works for everyone and we’re planning to re-platform and improve the existing (commercial, operational and customer) data assets and develop new ones, as well as transform how we work with the business to use our data better.

We’re looking for a highly skilled data leader, able to combine hands-on development in one of our technical disciplines, alongside direct management of a team of multi-skilled data and quality engineers delivering data solutions for key programmes, projects and products.

This role requires excellent technical skills, communication, relationship building and ability to interact with key stakeholders to support our goal in becoming a more data-driven, data led organisation delivering the value of data across the business.

Main Responsibilities

This is a great opportunity for an experienced data leader to join a well-established and successful team to contribute to and enhance their internal data capabilities Provide leadership to inspire and motivate to bring the best out of individuals and as a team through coaching and sharing technical knowledge, fostering a culture of continuous learning.

• Support the implementation of the data analytics strategy to align with business objectives
• Excellent organisation and communication skills and demonstrate the ability to work on multiple tasks at the same time through to resolution.
• Demonstrate excellent technical skills across multiple technologies including replication tools, ELT/ETL, data reconciliation and Visualisation tooling.
• Fostering a culture of collaboration with all Data & Analytics engineering teams, to embed consistent ways of working and improvements, through facilitating internal working groups and championing new technologies.
• Acting as escalation point for out of hours deployments or production issues and being a part of an overnight support rota
• Flexibility to travel to other MO sites (when required)

About You

You’ll need all of these.

• Proven experience in business intelligence, data analytics, or a related field
• Experience/familiarity with Oracle, Snowflake databases or similar
• Knowledge of ELT tools e.g. DBT, ODI or similar technology
• Strong knowledge of data management principles, database systems, and data warehousing concepts.
• Detailed knowledge of SQL, writing clear, concise and performant SQL queries.
• Proficiency in business intelligence tools and technologies (e.g., OAS, Power BI).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders in multiple offices
• An innovator who constantly helps improve efficiency and growth, has an analytical mindset, and has problem-solving abilities.
• Experience of managing multi disciplined data teams
• Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure e.g. AWS, OCI
• Experience of Power BI and management of semantic models
• Understanding of Quality Engineering processes including data reconciliation and data quality validation
• Knowledge of data modelling techniques
• Knowledge of designing and developing shared data products
• Experience with advanced analytics techniques, such as predictive modelling, Mathematical prediction, and data mining.
• Understanding of machine learning and AI

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our Values Are At The Heart Of Everything We Do. They Represent Ambition, And We Look For Our People To Live And Breathe Them Every Day

• We find solutions

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.