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# Head of Applications & Data

- **Company:** Big Red Recruitment
- **Location:** Coventry, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Business Software, Business Systems, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Systems Integration, Azure Service Bus, Microsoft Power Automate, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Cloud Integration, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/head-of-applications-data/57401759

## About the Role

* Analytical Thinking (Solving)
 * Business Requirements
 * Business Software
 * Customer Relationship Management (Marketing)
 * Database Administration (Administration)
 * Databases
 * Leadership and Management (Certhe)
 * Microsoft Access
 * Microsoft Dynamics
 * Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Analyst)

## Description

You take the application estate and the data platform. Three people will report to you.

Day to day that means:

 * Core customer-facing and business systems owned as products, with roadmaps and named owners, rather than projects nobody looks after once they go live
 * Supplier relationships at roadmap level: influencing what gets built
 * A legacy on-prem data warehouse that has to move, and the decision about where it moves to
 * A cloud integration landscape currently built and held by third parties, that needs to come under proper ownership

What you'll need
You don't have to be hands-on any more. You do need to be able to hold your own in a technical conversation about:

 * Data pipelines and ETL/ELT tooling, such as Azure Data Factory or the equivalent elsewhere
 * Integration services, such as Logic Apps or an iPaaS platform
 * Event-based messaging, such as Azure Service Bus or a similar queue or event platform
 * Modern data platforms, and the trade-offs between something like Microsoft Fabric and Snowflake

The environment is Microsoft-led, so Azure experience is the closest fit, though strong AWS or Google equivalents are worth a conversation.

You'll also need to have led a small team, worked in a multi-site organisation, and be comfortable that budgets here are earned through business cases rather than handed out.


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