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Director of Data Engineering

Birmingham, West Midlands
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Director of Data Engineering
Birmingham
Up to £160,000

An opportunity to join a leading commercial brand in their technology transformation to build a new data engineering team.

THE COMPANY

A household name with national scope within technology and consumer products. This company are currently undergoing a huge tech transformation including the build of a new data engineering function focused on their TV, mobile, and internet consumer products. This new function will be working closely with Data Science and be pivotal in driving their cloud migration and machine learning approach.

THE ROLE

  • Lead a world-class data engineering function
  • Oversee strategy, technical development, and best practices for a new function
  • Remain close to software and data engineering technology
  • Build the team out from all aspects including recruitment, professional and technical development
  • Support the migration to cloud platform in an agile way

YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Experience building and leading software and data functions
  • A core background in software and/or data engineering
  • Remain close to technology: Java, Scala, SparkML
  • Experience in cloud migrations (GCP preferred)
  • Understanding and involvement with data science practices, machine learning and AI
  • Proven effective strategy development and execution

BENEFITS

Up to £160,000
Car allowance
Competitive bonus
Company shares
Pension
Healthcare (including family)

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Rosalind Madge via the Apply link on this page

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