Data Integration Services Manager (Hybrid Working)
Responsible for: Data Integration Team Management & Governance
(Azure Integration Services)
£56,000 - £65,000 D.O.E
* 42 Days Holidays Inc Bank Holidays
* Excellent Pension Scheme
* Great Career Progression opportunities
* Internal Training & Personnel Development Courses
* Leadership of Multiple Projects
* Benefits Package including – Sick Pay, Sports & Leisure facilities discounts, Car Leasing Scheme, Onsite Childcare Facilities & Flexible Working
* Plenty of Safe & Secure On-Site Parking
* Great Public Transport Links
* Site Location very close to M1, M6, M40, M42, M69, A45, A46
We have a great opportunity for an experienced team leader or manager to join a leading university and be part of a Data Integration Portfolio Delivery Team.
This is a key position that sits within the data engineering team and holds responsibility for a sub team with a focus on Data Integration.
Primary duties will include the design and deliver a robust, performant, and auditable Data Integration Service i.e.:
* Implement a data integration service based on approved group technologies
* Specify governance and best practice methodologies
* Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team
* Manage the development and training of staff in the team, ensuring that their skills remain current and develop as the needs of the role change
* Provide technical leadership to the team, coaching members when needed
* Ensure that the team works in accordance with the groups ITIL processes including change, incident, service request and problem management
* Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs and opportunities for improvement
* Act as the contact point for Product and Delivery Managers who are customers of the Data Integration Service
* Act as the Technical Authority for development undertaken on the data integration platform
Lead – Data Integration Services
Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team, ensuring that the team and third parties perform to a good level, work to accepted quality standards, to common design patterns and testing practices, and are knowledgeable of current relevant legislation. Ensure that working practices enable third parties to be incorporated in the team, providing surge capacity to match changes in demand.
Lead, develop and maintain a well governed data integration service that follows best practice methodologies for group integration platform, ensuring its services are scalable, performant and based on an accurate, complete and well-structured catalogue of integrations that facilitates change management, architecture planning functions, cost optimisation and evidence-based assurance of legal compliance obligations. Work with other relevant teams including Groups IT Security and Enterprise Architecture; and third-party suppliers.
Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs to evidence performance and opportunities for improvement such as robustness of integration, speed to develop.
Work as directed by the Head of Portfolio: Enabling Platforms and act as the contact point in IDG for Product and Delivery Managers who are customers of the Data Integration Service. Act as the Technical Authority for development undertaken on the data integration platform.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* A Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience
* Good experience of both working in and leading a development team, this is likely to have been gained over a substantial career in professional IT roles.
* Experience of evaluating solution options for technical feasibility and business benefits
* Experience of budget management and developing cost models as part of the evaluation of alternative options
* A thorough understanding legislation relevant to the processing of data both within and external to a complex organisation
* Experience of Integration Management
* Experience and good exposure of Azure Integration Services
* A good understanding of the use of data and metrics led service improvement
* Experience of providing technical leadership on major IT projects
* In-depth technical knowledge, to the level of principal expert, in developing data integration services
* Experience of working in an ITIL managed environment
For more information please contact Pete.Hampshire@wegtechrec.com
WEG Tech is acting as an internal recruitment agency for this vacancy.