Tech Lead - Data Platform - £85,000 - £95,000 plus benefits
Tech Lead - Data Platform - £85,000 - £95,000 plus benefits
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Job Description
As a Tech Lead your responsibilities will encompass guiding and evolving the technical architecture of Reachs Data Lake and related platforms. This role is pivotal in ensuring that our data infrastructure meets the highest standards and aligns with our business objectives.
This position requires close collaboration with business analysts product managers and other stakeholders. Your input will be crucial in ensuring that all required data is ingested correctly into our systems.
You will be tasked with creating data ingestion processes using Python and various data processing frameworks. This includes acquiring data from a variety of source systems such as APIs S3 buckets and SFTP servers.
It is essential for all code and infrastructure to adhere to Reachs standards and conventions. We follow best practices including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and the use of Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC).
Part of your role will involve creating documentation of processes and related design decisions. This will ensure that our operations are transparent traceable and easy to understand for all team members.
As a leader in the team you will also manage the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the Reach Data Lake and related architecture. This involves making cost-effective decisions that benefit both the company and our customers.
Finally we at Reach are committed to diversity inclusion and non-discrimination in everything we publish. You will be expected to uphold these values in all aspects of your work.
Qualifications :
- Strong communication skills: written face-to-face presentation and cascading consistent messages
- Proficient in technical architecture
- Skilled in delegation and coaching
- Expertise in cloud/infrastructure cost management
- Experienced in Python for data ingestion and processing including Pandas and AWS Wrangler
- In-depth knowledge of AWS services: Athena S3 Glue Lambda ECS/EC2
- Excellent SQL skills: DML & DDL
- Strong understanding of unit testing for data processes
- Passionate about data and its potential opportunities
- Effective communicator who fosters collaboration within and between teams
- Capable of managing personal workload across multiple projects and deadlines
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Experience:
- Leading a team of data engineers
- Designing and implementing data solutions
- Working with enterprise-level data lakes ideally in media or technology companies
- Building data pipelines and orchestrating workflows in an enterprise environment
- Using CI/CD pipelines and IAC tools (e.g. CDK Terraform) for AWS infrastructure and data processes deployment
- Familiarity with Apache Iceberg is a plus
Additional Information :
We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including;
- Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and well match contributions up to 6%
- 25 days holiday per year when you join. After three five and ten years service with Reach youll accrue one additional day of annual leave. We also have a Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Giving back day - an additional days leave each year to support a cause close to your heart
- Enhanced family leave - including maternity paternity and adoption - and youll be eligible after just six months employment
- Private Healthcare Cash Plan - free health cash plan so you can claim back cash for a range of medical expenses
- As one of the UKs top 50 Inclusive Employers everyones invited to join our events programmes and networks to celebrate diversity and build an environment where all our people can thrive
- Wellbeing support - including a 24/7 employee assistance programme (EAP) for you and your nearest and dearest
- Awesome career opportunities - youll have support from your line manager and a range of learning & development programmes
- We are also a member of the 30% Club a global campaign aimed at increasing gender diversity at board and senior management levels
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please apply early to avoid disappointment.
Reach plc believes diversity brings benefits for our customers our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background circumstances age disability gender identity ethnicity religion or belief and sexual orientation.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
