Data Operations Manager

This is a high-impact role sitting at the heart of the business's data platform, owning the transition between build and run, ensuring data products are delivered, deployed and operating effectively at scale.

You'll work across a complex, fast-moving environment supporting critical data journeys across life and health products, with real autonomy to shape how DataOps is run.

The Role

You'll lead Data Operations across a growing data engineering capability, ensuring platforms, pipelines and environments are stable, scalable and compliant.

This is a hands-on leadership role. Balancing delivery, operations and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning the run function for data platforms and pipelines
• Leading and mentoring DataOps within a broader Data Engineering team
• Managing the transition from build * deployment * live operations
• Triaging issues, assessing impact and driving resolution (low * high severity)
• Establishing scalable, automated processes across data and ML environments
• Ensuring data quality, availability and consistency across systems
• Driving best practice across build, release and deployment
• Working closely with senior stakeholders to prioritise and deliver data initiatives
• Defining KPIs and using data to improve operational performance
• Ensuring strong governance within a regulated environment, Job Description Check below to see if you have what is needed for this opportunity, and if so, make an application asap. IT Business Solutions Manager (Data & Analytics) 2-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £650 per day Putney based - hybrid working - 2 days on...

• Proven experience in Data Operations / Data Engineering environments
• Strong leadership across Data Engineers, Analysts and support teams
• Ability to operate across both build and run environments
• Confident stakeholder engagement at senior and exec level
• Strong understanding of data platforms, pipelines and operational support models
• Experience working in complex, regulated environments
• Solid technical grounding (e.g. SQL, cloud platforms ideally GCP)
• Excellent judgement. Able to prioritise, triage and make decisions at pace

Why Join?

• A genuinely autonomous leadership role with high visibility
• Opportunity to work on a modernising data platform (GCP)
• Exposure to complex, business-critical data products
• Strong, collaborative stakeholder environment
• Clear opportunity to shape how Data Operations is delivered

Package

• Bonus scheme
• Pension up to 12% (6% matched)
• Private health insurance
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Plus a wide range of additional benefits

Process:

Two-stage interview (initial + technical), with a final conversation if required. xhkmmrq

If you're looking for a role where you can genuinely influence how data platforms operate at scale - while working closely with senior stakeholders - this is worth a conversation. Similar jobs

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