Data Engineering Lead Engineer

Data Engineering Lead Engineer

• Competitive salary
• Up to 17.5% bonus
• Up to 80% remote working available

About the role

NFUM are currently looking to expand our Integration and Azure Development capability. As a result, we are looking for an enthusiastic, creative, and innovation driven Lead Engineer to add further talent to the IT delivery teams within our Data Engineering Team. You will be part of a fast-paced, collaborative, integration development team that is moving towards a fully-fledged DevOps culture with processes and tooling to drive efficiencies and innovation. The role provides an excellent opportunity for an individual to develop their career and influence the development and support of the Group’s Integration, and Cloud-based Data Platform function. Not only will you be working within a great team environment, but you’ll be also creating valuable, innovative integration solutions for a company that puts our customers’ needs at the heart of everything we do.

As Lead Engineer in our Data Engineering Integration Team, you’ll lead the team to design, develop and deliver complex solutions across a range of Integration technologies.

Offering technical and delivery leadership, you'll make sure your team delivers standardised, highly performant trusted integrations solutions, ensuring the integrity and security of data within the solutions. You'll need to establish and develop effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels to understand their technical requirements, ensuring that solutions continue to deliver the business requirements and realise business benefits.

At the same time, you'll give your team the technical leadership to design and build reliable, reusable solutions to meet integration challenges. This includes managing the assessment of integration designs and delivery backlogs and providing focus and direction to the team to ensure they are clear on designs and agreed solutions.

You'll also be a technical coach to your team and the wider Group IT developer community, advising on how ensure that the best technical solutions are delivered whilst also providing the solutions that require minimal support with a high level of uptime.

You’ll be responsible for developing, along with the Architect team, an Integration strategy and roadmap to align with the wider needs of the Group IT solutions. This will require you to keep abreast of developments in the Integration landscape, reviewing new features/updates and assessing their impact and benefit across all aspects of our end-to-end solutions, evaluating and recommending enhancements, design patterns and improvements to the performance, security and integrity of our solutions

This role is based in our Avon House Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

About you

You easily combine your technical ability to build reliable Integration Solutions, with the leadership skills to be a motivational, technical mentor to members of the Integration Team. Naturally, you’re a confident communicator, with the presence to develop excellent working relationships at all levels across our business. To join our team, you must have:

• Technical experience in either IIB or Azure Integration solutions; design, development, code management and platform/telemetry monitoring; Azure integration tools (Logic Apps, Function Apps, APIM, ADF), SQL Server, XML (and use of JSON and SOAP)
• Significant experience of IT software development and methodologies, within a controls-based framework, including the use of automation and continuous integration tools, such as Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience of Data DevOps and Agile Delivery and be flexible in approach to work environment and responsibilities.
• Broad experience across all aspects of an IT Service
• Experience of successfully working to tight deadlines
• Excellent presentation and stakeholder influencing skills
• Experience of leading, supporting and developing a technical team

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and are one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2022 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021 and the Glassdoor Best 50 Workplaces List 2023.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.