Data Platform Lead

Connells Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading property services company in the UK is seeking a Data Platform Lead to join their Group Technology team. In this role, you will manage a team of technical specialists, ensuring the effective operation and management of the Connells Group Data Platform. Responsibilities include incident resolution, implementing cloud technologies, and maintaining data platform designs. Candidates should have strong managerial experience and a bachelor's degree in a relevant field. This position is integral to business objectives and offers a dynamic work environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in similar relevant technical managerial roles.
• Strong experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem-solving activities.
• Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies.
• Extensive experience of implementing, managing and supporting data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of technical specialists across the data estate.
• Ensure critical downtime and risk of disruption are managed.
• Lead on ensuring a robust response to applicable incidents.

Skills

Technical managerial roles

Incident resolution

Cloud Technologies

Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server

JIRA

Confluence

Understanding of FinOps

Alerting and Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, computer science or a related field

Tools

GitHub

Git Actions

Terraform

Job description

We are seeking a Data Platform Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will play a leading role in delivering the formal requirements associated with the Connells Group Data Platform, including design, capacity, management and configuration management responsibilities. As the Data Platform Lead, you will be managing a team of technical specialists across Connells data estate on a day‑to‑day basis, liaising with 3rd party providers, mentoring and developing the teams core skills and expertise whilst maturing the overall processes and procedures in relation to the service. The role also supports the business objectives and strategy through the delivery of secure, supportable and scalable on-premises, cloud and hybrid data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Line management of a number of direct reports within the team. Resource management across the team, ensuring that the relevant workload associated to the team (Design, Project delivery, Operational and Change) are delivered as agreed.
• Act as the Subject Matter expertise around the Data Platform capability.
• Maintain the Data Platform for all Connells users, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption.
• Lead on ensuring an appropriate and robust response to applicable incidents, and ensure root cause analysis and resolution occurs. In addition, ensure an applicable out-of-hours support model is in place as required for 24x7x365 operational running.

Team Roles and Responsibilities

• Owns the Data Platform designs and supplier relationship
• Incident and Change
• Support projects where appropriate
• Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations frompre otherplätze IT teams
• Ensures Patches and Upgrades are implemented in line with operational limits

Experience and Skills Required

• Essential:
• Demonstrable Experience in similar relevant technical managerial roles
• Strong experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem‑solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs.
• Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies
• Experience of Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server ErinExtensive experience of implementing, managing and supporting data platforms in a demanding environment
• Experience of JIRA and Confluence
• Understanding of FinOps; PaaS; Alerting and Monitoring
• Desirable:
• Experience of managing teams of over 5+ people in a complex, challenging environment setting and managing against SLAs and business objectives.
• Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Zero Trust architectures and PaaS.
• Preferably educated to graduate level with a bachelors degree in business, computer science or a related field

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities discrepancy employer and positively encourages applications from Fein qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, héritage, gender or interenter bel