Head of Data Engineering — Azure Databricks & Data Platform

Secure Trust Bank PLC; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 76,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Matched pension

28 days leave + birthday off

Wellbeing hour

Cycle2Work

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Volunteer days

Charity fundraising

Flexible environment

Professional development

Career progression

Job summary

Secure Trust Bank PLC in Solihull is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a modern, enterprise-wide data platform initiative. You will drive a high-performing team, advance a scalable Azure Databricks platform, and deliver trusted data products to support regulatory, analytics and business needs.

The role partners with senior stakeholders to evolve the data strategy, ensure governance, security and resilience, and enable data-driven decision making across Finance, Risk and Operations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing Data Engineering teams within a complex organisation.
• Experience embedding data governance, quality, lineage, security and auditability into engineering solutions.
• Ability to translate data and technology strategy into tangible business value, customer outcomes and commercial impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and inspire the Data Engineering function, fostering a high-performing team culture and engineering excellence.
• Drive the delivery, adoption and continuous enhancement of the Azure Databricks Enterprise Data Platform.
• Establish a sustainable in-house data engineering capability, ensuring effective knowledge transfer from strategic partners.
• Develop scalable and reusable data ingestion, transformation and CI/CD frameworks to support efficient platform delivery.
• Deliver trusted, governed data products through a modern medallion architecture, ensuring high standards of quality, security and resilience.
• Collaborate with Architecture and Data Governance teams to embed robust data models, lineage, ownership and control frameworks.
• Partner with business leaders across Finance, Credit Risk, Operations and Savings to deliver data solutions that support strategic and regulatory objectives.
• Prioritise engineering activity across business change, regulatory commitments and operational demands, providing clear visibility of risks and dependencies.
• Build team capability through coaching, mentoring, structured development and Databricks-focused training and accreditation.
• Manage technology partners, platform performance and service delivery, while supporting the retirement of legacy data solutions and reporting processes.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Data governance

Supplier management

Tools

Azure Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Secure Trust Bank PLC in Solihull is seeking a Head of Data Engineering to lead a modern, enterprise-wide data platform initiative. You will drive a high-performing team, advance a scalable Azure Databricks platform, and deliver trusted data products to support regulatory, analytics and business needs.

The role partners with senior stakeholders to evolve the data strategy, ensure governance, security and resilience, and enable data-driven decision making across Finance, Risk and Operations.