Data Platform Lead

We are seeking a Data Platform Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will play a leading role in delivering the formal requirements associated with the Connells Group Data Platform, including design, capacity, management and configuration management responsibilities. As the Data Platform Lead, you will be managing a team of technical specialists across Connells data estate on a day-to-day basis, liaising with 3rd party providers, mentoring and developing the teams core skills and expertise whilst maturing the overall processes and procedures in relation to the service. The role also supports the business objectives and strategy through the delivery of secure, supportable and scalable on-premises, cloud and hybrid data platforms., * Line management of a number of direct reports within the team. Resource management across the team, ensuring that the relevant workload associated to the team (Design, Project delivery, Operational and Change) are delivered as agreed.

• Act as the Subject Matter expertise around the Data Platform capability.
• Maintain the Data Platform for all Connells users, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption.
• To lead on ensuring an appropriate and robust response to applicable incidents, and to ensure root cause analysis and resolution occurs. In addition, ensuring an applicable out-of-hours support model in place as required for 24x7x365 operational running.

Team Roles and Responsibilities:

• Owns the Data Platform designs and supplier relationship
• Incident and Change
• Support projects where appropriate
• Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams
• Ensures Patches and Upgrades are implemented in line with operational limits

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Essential:

• Demonstrable Experience in similar relevant technical managerial roles
• Strong experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem-solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs.
• Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies
• Experience of Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server
• Extensive experience of implementing, managing and supporting data platforms in a demanding environment
• Experience of JIRA and Confluence
• Understanding of FinOps; PaaS; Alerting and Monitoring

Desirable:

• Experience of managing teams of over 5+ people in a complex, challenging environment setting and managing against SLA's and business objectives.
• Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Zero Trust architectures and PaaS.
• Preferably educated to graduate level with a bachelor's degree in business, computer science or a related field