Hybrid working model - 2-3 days per week in the office

The Company

The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad.

The Role

This opportunity is for an experienced Lead Data Integration Engineer to join the Engineering team, to help delivery of the digital roadmap, develop people and capabilities, and support Engineering strategy to drive improvements across all teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a product-led operating model, where all teams are value stream aligned with all the different resource types needed to get from idea to done with minimal hand-offs. The focus is on building out a Single Digital Platform, centred around Salesforce, with data integrations to the legacy platforms and involving a significant .NET estate, use of Azure services and various frontend web applications.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading by example in an agile engineering team, inspiring excellence, being hands-on to set best practices and ensure correct designs and implementation, and taking ownership of meeting delivery outcomes as per the product roadmap
• Driving the design, development and ongoing support of data integrations surrounding the strategic customer platform (Salesforce based)
• Working in a DevOps operating model, leading on the build and run of the data integrations, focussing initially on Azure Data Factory but building out additional tooling to deliver real-time data integrations to support the scaling of the platform
• Ensuring accurate documentation, automation, and monitoring of data integrations in the digital platform
• Acting as a line manager and mentor for members of the development team
• Promoting continuous improvement both within specific technology areas and across the IT department
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience leading a high performing engineering team
• Experience integrating with Salesforce via real-time, batch, sync/async
• An expert working with databases and database architecture, SQL and Stored Procedures
• Proven experience with Data integration technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Apache airflow, Databricks AutoLoader
• Ability to build CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Experience with event driven data flows and message aggregators (Event Hub, Apache Kafka)
• Good understanding of current and emerging technologies and their potential to deliver business benefits
• Hands on experience working with data matching processes would be highly desirable
• Ability to translate business strategy into technical solutions and business requirements into technical design
  
  

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.