Head of Data Engineering
- Employer
- Real Time Consultants Ltd
- Location
- Oxford, Home Counties, OX42QF
- Salary
- £110,000 - £120,000 per year
- Closing date
- 10 Dec 2020
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- Sector
- Technology
- Responsibilities
- Analyst, Information Technology
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist, Department Head
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
Head of Data Engineering - Oxford / Remote - Up to £120,000 + Great Benefits
A vibrant HealthTech business based in Oxford are on the lookout for a Head of Data Engineering to join their ambitious team.
This is a great opportunity to work in an innovative environment with a product that combines healthcare and data using clinical AI technology to solve medical needs. It's a high-tech product that covers a wide range of therapeutic areas, enabling a new approach to clinical trial design and delivering a genuine and long-lasting impact with its customers.
The head office is based in Oxford but to begin with there will be flexible remote working options until it becomes business as usual.
The Role
As the Head of Data Engineering, you will lead a team that provides best practice data engineering support across all departments and customers. You'll establish data engineering practices that provide the foundations for generating value from data assets, whilst ensuring all data is secured, anonymised and controlled to the highest possible standards.
As the Head of Data Engineering, your daily duties will include, but won't be limited to:
- Ensuring secure and flexible external data insight
- Ensuring all major data assets are secured, catalogued and available
- Facilitating the adoption of a flexible, secure workflow for research and operational needs
- Owning budget for data engineering projects
- Leading and mentoring a team of talented data engineers
- Establishing Agile processes for team working
- Developing and directing processing safeguards to reduce the risk of data breaches and protect sensitive internal and external client information
- Consistently evaluating technical efficiency
- Identifying competitive advantages and technological trends for the benefit of a company
About You
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the business and with external parties. You'll be a natural leader, capable of managing, mentoring and motivating the entire data engineering team, whilst being pragmatic and showing strong financial acumen. As the Head of Data Engineering, you'll have an excellent technical ability who enjoys seeing value and insight derived data and who embraces new ideas and processes.
In terms of technical skill set, you will expected to have in-depth knowledge of:
- Microsoft Azure
- Big data engineering
- ETL toolsets and data manipulation
- Agile
- DevOps
- Full SDLC
- Complex software products
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary of up to £120,000, the Head of Data Engineering will receive a number of great benefits including a vibrant, modern office, competitive pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare, cycle to work scheme and gym membership to name but a few!
If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please apply now. If you'd like some further information on the role, please contact Lara Scott at Real Time Consultants.
Real Time Consultants are acting as an employment/agency business in relation to this vacancy.
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