Data Integration Manager (Informatica / Talend)

Location: Remote (UK)

RS Group is seeking a Data Integration Manager (Informatica / Talend) to define and lead our global Informatica capability. This role will play a key part in shaping the future of ETL and data integration at RS, migrating and consolidating legacy platforms into a modern, scalable environment while also supporting and evolving existing Informatica instances. You will have the opportunity to establish new standards, build a high-performing engineering team, and drive the strategic direction for our global data integration capability. The Data Integration Manager (Informatica / Talend) will initially focus on growing the team by hiring and developing engineers while delivering both greenfield initiatives and business-as-usual (BAU) work. The role requires strong technical leadership and stakeholder management to prioritise demand, size requests, and build a robust, consolidated ETL platform.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Team Leadership & Growth: Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing Informatica engineering team, fostering a collaborative and high-quality engineering culture.
• Strategic Platform Development: Design and build a modern Informatica ETL platform to support global data integration needs, establishing best practices, standards, and scalable architecture.
• Legacy Migration & Consolidation: Lead the migration and consolidation of legacy ETL systems into the new platform while ensuring stability, continuity, and long-term value.
• Stakeholder & Demand Management: Work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements, assess feasibility, size requests, and prioritise work across projects and BAU delivery.
• Vendor Coordination: Act as the primary technical contact for Informatica and related vendors, coordinating support, licensing, and migration activities.
• Delivery Execution: Oversee the successful delivery of both project-based initiatives and ongoing operational work, ensuring reliability and performance across the ETL ecosystem.
• Process & Standards: Establish and promote engineering standards, development processes, and operational practices for the ETL platform.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with architecture, data engineering, analytics, and business intelligence teams to ensure alignment with the organisation’s broader data strategy.

About You

You are a proactive and collaborative engineering leader who enjoys building teams and shaping platforms from the ground up. You bring strong technical knowledge of ETL and data integration along with the ability to translate business needs into scalable, reliable solutions. You are comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment where you balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical leadership. You build strong relationships with stakeholders, vendors, and engineering teams, and you enjoy mentoring engineers while driving high standards of delivery. You’re passionate about modernising data platforms, improving engineering practices, and creating a clear vision for how data integration can enable business success.

What You’ll Need:

• Strong experience in data integration, ETL development, and Informatica platforms (such as PowerCenter or Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services).
• Expertise in designing, building, and modernising ETL platforms, including migrating and consolidating legacy systems.
• Solid knowledge of SQL, relational databases, and data modelling, with experience optimising ETL performance and reliability.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms and modern data stacks (e.g., AWS, Azure, Snowflake, SAP) and automation through scripting languages such as Python or Shell.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD and version control for ETL pipelines.
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable solutions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and organisational skills, with the ability to lead teams, work with vendors, and balance strategic initiatives with operational delivery.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery.
• Additions to fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS. At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems. We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.