Head of Data Engineering & Azure Platform Strategy

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

Job summary

Socium is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Manchester to own the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap. You will lead a team of ten, mentor engineers, and drive the migration from on-prem SQL to Azure, while shaping tooling, budgets and supplier relationships.

You'll collaborate with the C-suite and influence senior leadership with strong technical depth to guide design decisions, governance, and production reliability in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a data engineering team and owning strategy and delivery.
• Strong technical grounding in SQL, Azure, Azure Data Factory and ETL/ELT, including cloud migration and architecture.
• Confident in challenging senior stakeholders and making a case for investment.
• Enough depth to dive into design details 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

Leadership

Job description

Socium is seeking a Head of Data Engineering in Manchester to own the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap. You will lead a team of ten, mentor engineers, and drive the migration from on-prem SQL to Azure, while shaping tooling, budgets and supplier relationships.

You'll collaborate with the C-suite and influence senior leadership with strong technical depth to guide design decisions, governance, and production reliability in a hybrid work setting.