As the Head of Data Architect and Data Engineering, you will empower the high-achieving team responsible for architecting and running the data storage layer of the data platform. You'll play an integral role in the operationally-critical durable, performant and user-friendly data storage infrastructure, owning the roadmap and calling upon your industry experience to implement improvements and optimize processes.
You'll act as the leading expert in data storage across the development team, guiding feature teams to architecting a first-rate, scalable system in a reflexive manner that encourages continuous improvement. You'll access to contemporary technologies in an AWS cloud environment and data infrastructure tools.
In this Head of Data Architect and Data Engineering role you'll be based in bright, open-plan offices where you can enjoy a relaxed, motivated team atmosphere and top-of-the-range kit to work on.
Requirements:
- You have demonstrable experience owning transactional data stores in production (e.g. MySQL, PostgresSQL)
- You have good working knowledge of software development with Java, Go / Python and Distributed Systems Computing
- You've worked with cloud-based engineering environments e.g. AWS, GCP
- You're familiar with infrastructure automation and configuration management tooling, e.g. Terraform, Ansible
- You're a passionate technologist, keen to keep pace with the latest technologies and continuously refine your skills
- You're a self-assured communicator, confident and impactful as a leader