Data Engineering Lead: Platform & People

Correla; Elmdon Heath; On-site; GBP 77,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Locate for your day

Uncapped annual leave

6-12% Pension Contribution

Private Healthcare

Up to 26 weeks’ full pay equal parent

Wellbeing Services

And more!

Job summary

Correla is seeking a Data Engineer Manager to lead a SaaS data team in the United Kingdom. The role centers on delivering reliable data platforms, pipelines and reporting services while balancing business priorities and technical quality.

You will coach and develop a high-performing team, promote governance, and partner with Product, Engineering and Operations to shape the data strategy for a net-zero aligned future.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data engineering, reporting or technical teams and coaching emerging leaders.
• Proven delivery of data platforms, pipelines, semantic models and reporting services.
• Strong understanding of modern data architectures, modelling approaches and reporting technologies.
• Ability to translate organisational needs into effective data and reporting solutions.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, security and compliance principles.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, well-governed data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the data engineering team with coaching, mentoring and performance management.
• Ensure delivery and operation of data platforms, pipelines, models and reporting services.
• Promote high standards across data engineering, governance, security and reliability.
• Make strong architectural decisions and guide technical directions.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations and stakeholders to align data services with business goals.
• Own data platform environments and maintain data quality and performance.

Skills

People leadership

Data platform delivery

Technical capability

Stakeholder management

Data governance & quality

Data platform expertise

Continuous improvement

Strategic thinking

Job description

Correla is seeking a Data Engineer Manager to lead a SaaS data team in the United Kingdom. The role centers on delivering reliable data platforms, pipelines and reporting services while balancing business priorities and technical quality.

You will coach and develop a high-performing team, promote governance, and partner with Product, Engineering and Operations to shape the data strategy for a net-zero aligned future.