Data Engineering & Architecture Lead
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Application Deadline: Friday 24th May 2024
Job Title: Data Engineering & Architecture Lead
Location: Central London
Contract Perm/FTC: Permanent
Salary: Dependant on experience
Worktype Place – Full time in office or Hybrid: Hybrid, 3 days in office, 2 WFH
About us
Cynergy Bank is the UK’s human digital bank serving the needs of ‘scale up’ or medium sized and fast-growing SMEs; professionals; high net worth and mass affluent individuals, in essence those market segments that still value human service enabled by great technology.
We recognise that professional and personal lives often overlap and our mission is to help empower our customers to achieve their ambitions by serving all their interdependent banking needs. We provide a comprehensive range of digitally enabled products and services to meet the property finance, business and commercial banking, private banking and personal savings needs of our customers.
Our human and digital model transforms banking for customers who still value a face-to-face relationship that is enabled by the latest digital technology.
We partner with firms such as Google Cloud, Cigniti and Slalom as we continue to innovate in the human digital space.
Cynergy Bank Limited is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Eligible deposits with Cynergy Bank Limited are protected by the UK Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
For more information on Cynergy Bank visit www.cynergybank.co.uk
Company Benefits
- Competitive Salary and Company Bonus
- 210 hours (30 days) holiday plus bank holidays
- Option to purchase an additional 10 days holiday
- Pension contribution and Life Assurance
- Income Protection Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
- Private Medical Insurance and Health Check (After Probation)
- Electric Car Scheme and Money Coach (After Probation)
The role
As part of Cynergy Bank’s digital transformation, the lead Data Engineering & Architecture Lead will shape the data engineering practice while performing a pivotal role in helping to build the company’s new data and analytics architecture.
Alongside deep engineering expertise the successful candidate will also have data architecture experience and will be well-versed in true greenfield/start-up data deployments.
Working closely with data architects, other data engineers and business stakeholders, the role offers a chance to shape the D&A landscape, from data modelling to tool selection. This role requires broad technical expertise and hands-on ability.
Responsibilities:
- Leadership Combine data architecture and data engineering expertise to lead on the design of data solutions. Help to shape data teams . Manage & mentor data engineers.
- Data Management Set the guardrails and protocols for the data engineering practice viz. data quality, security & privacy.
- Data Pipeline Development Leading the design & development of data pipelines, ensuring data integrity, quality, and consistency throughout the process.
- Data Modelling Help design and implement appropriate data models to support efficient data querying and analysis.
- Performance Optimization Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data components to reduce latency, minimise costs and improve overall data processing efficiency.
- Automation Identify opportunities to automate data workflows, data validation, and monitoring processes to enhance operational efficiency and reduce manual efforts.
- Collaboration Work closely with cross-functional teams, such as data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, and business stakeholders, to understand their data needs and support their data-related requirements.
- Documentation Maintain comprehensive documentation for data pipelines, ETL processes, and data architecture to ensure knowledge transfer and maintain system stability.
- Stay Updated Keep abreast of industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in data engineering, analytics, and data management to suggest improvements and innovations.
Essential Knowledge & Experience
- Strong experience and background in data engineering or a related field.
- Experience of leading data engineering design in Google Cloud Platform
- Experience of leading & mentoring other data engineers.
- Experience of true greenfield or start-up data platform design & development.
- Experience with infrastructure as code for data developments.
- Experience working in multi-cloud environments.
- Strong knowledge of data architecture best practices & industry trends
- Ability to translate complex data concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Strong programming skills in a range of languages, esp. Python and SQL.
- Proven experience of building & maintaining data platform elements (pipelines, ingestion layers, data lakes, data warehouses etc.)
- Proven experience of building & maintaining Business Intelligence & reporting environments.
- Hands-on abilities with data modelling and related tools & techniques
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with a strong attention to detail.
Desirable knowledge & Experience:
- Experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform and working in multi-cloud environments
- Experience implementing cloud data management frameworks – such as CDMC
- Knowledge of computational data governance solutions
- Experience of data governance tooling – esp. Alation
- Experience working within the banking sector.
Behavioural Attributes:
- Key communicator - strong stakeholder management skills across all business & technology areas
- Bias towards action - ready to implement.
- Measure to improve - utilising analytics across all types of activity to drive and demonstrate progress.
- Resilient empathetic
- Customer-centric thinker
- A team player who assumes personal responsibility and Independent contributor
- Department
- IT
- Role
- Data Engineering & Architecture Lead
- Locations
- London
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Band
- Band Three
About Cynergy Bank
Cynergy Bank was established in 2018 by entrepreneurs to serve the needs of business owners, property entrepreneurs and family businesses. We have a strong track record supporting businesses that want to scale up and provide over £3bn lending to scaling businesses across the UK, we also offer retail deposits to UK savers. Our vision is to provide a truly personalised service that is delivered through face-to-face relationships and enhanced by the latest technology.
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