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# Data Operations Manager

- **Company:** Maru Search & Consultancy Ltd
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £72,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Engineering, Data Transformation, Release Management, Standard Sql, DataOps, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Data Management
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/data-operations-manager/57190127

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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., * 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, 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.
Skills

 * data operations
 * Cross-Functional Leadership
 * Data Engineering & Analysis
 * Data Engineering Roles
 * Data Transformation
 * Google Cloud Platform
 * Operations Support Roles
 * SQL
 * Stakeholder & People Management
 * Team Leader (Leadership)