Data Engineering Leader: Azure Strategy & Delivery - Hybrid

Socium Recruitment Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Socium Recruitment Limited is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Manchester on a hybrid basis. You will own the data strategy, architecture, and roadmap, guiding a ten-person team and reporting to the C-suite.

The role involves migrating from on-prem SQL to Azure, selecting tooling and managing budgets and suppliers, while setting standards for data modelling, pipelines, quality, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a data engineering team, with ownership of strategy and delivery.
• Strong technical grounding in SQL, Azure, Azure Data Factory and ETL/ELT, including cloud migration and architecture.
• The confidence to challenge senior stakeholders and make a clear case for investment.
• Enough engineering depth to step into the detail and help the team move forward.

Responsibilities

• Turning business priorities into a data engineering strategy the team can deliver.
• Leading and developing ten people, providing technical direction and mentoring.
• Owning the architecture and migration from on-prem SQL into Azure.
• Making the calls on tooling, investment and suppliers, and explaining those decisions to senior leadership.
• Setting engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, quality, governance, automated deployments and production reliability.

Skills

SQL

Azure

Azure Data Factory

ETL/ELT

Cloud migration

Architecture

Leadership

Job description

Socium Recruitment Limited is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Manchester on a hybrid basis. You will own the data strategy, architecture, and roadmap, guiding a ten-person team and reporting to the C-suite.

The role involves migrating from on-prem SQL to Azure, selecting tooling and managing budgets and suppliers, while setting standards for data modelling, pipelines, quality, and reliability.