Python Job: Data Engineering Lead

Data Engineering Lead- Bank of Ireland - Republic of Ireland/United Kingdom

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Bank of Ireland Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce.

Bank of Ireland are delighted to be hiring a Data Engineering Lead to join our Data Factory team!

Who are we?

Data is at the heart of BOI's business strategy, providing accurate and timely information to our customers, business leadership and regulators is a key enabler for BOI's continued success in building a strong resilient bank for the future. Our data supports a multitude of critical decisions impacting our customers, our business and our country. Data is viewed as a critical asset and our Data Factory team is in high demand. As part of our Agile Transformation we are looking for team members with the right mindset and experience and cultural fit for the data team in BOI.

As a Data Engineering Lead, you will help ensure the Data Factory is using the best tools, practices and technologies with a particular focus on our Enterprise Data Lake. Our Enterprise Data Lake is a key enabler for Bank Of Ireland and is a critical element in our overall Data Architecture underpinning the delivery of some of our most strategic priorities and initiatives. We are looking for experts in the Data Engineering domain to help create, maintain and drive value from this strategic asset. You will also help us grow as a data team supporting recruitment and team selection across the Data Factory.

This is a great opportunity for a dynamic person looking to be part of and shape a critical and growing area of the bank, working across a diverse technology set using agile delivery methodologies.!

The Bank's Data Factory provides critical data integration and engineering services to support the Bank's change programme of initiatives. The factory operates a 'one team' culture delivering through cross-functional squads, solution architects operate as a shared service to the delivery squads in designing & developing critical end-to-end data solutions across our data warehouse and data lake environments.

What is the opportunity?

The Data Engineering Lead will ensure that technical development processes and tooling is appropriate and effective, and that the quality of the solutions delivered into operational support are fit for purpose.

You will be responsible for the technical leadership and mentoring of engineering squads, ensuring that incoming change is 'engineering ready'.

As a People Manager you will drive engagement, and will be accountable for demonstrating and role modelling the Group values and behaviours through your people management and the way in which you deliver business goals.

Key Accountabilities

Providing technical direction and leadership to engineering squads

Inputting to the process to assess whether incoming change is 'engineering ready' and works with business and IT colleagues to establish and manage entry requirements

Defining the technical capabilities and resource profiles required within the squads, and work with internal resource management and external delivery partners to ensure the right capability is in place within the teams

Engineering standard methodology adoption within the squads

Ensuring engineering squads have the requisite tooling, methodology and process to drive delivery efficiency

Identifying, developing proposals and managing the execution of initiatives to automate, simplify and scale services

Being a leader for other specialists and ensures that career path and data sharing is embedded in ways of working

Aspiring to continuously develop new and improved data engineering capabilities

Contributing to the continual improvement of the business's data platforms through observations and well-researched knowledge

Continuously keeping track of industry standard methodologies and trends and through acquired knowledge, which takes advantage of process and system improvement opportunities

Who are you?

Essential Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Engineering & Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Data Engineering.

Essential Skills &Experience

• Demonstrable experience as Engineering Lead in the Enterprise Data Lake domain
• Experience in implementing Event Driven Architecture and Data Streaming
• Experience in Delivering Operational Datastores in a variety of technologies and data platforms.
• Deep technical knowledge of EDL Technologies and Architecture
• Large scale delivery experience and data management experience
• Scrum / Kanban and SAFe delivery experience
• Experience in data warehousing inclusive of dimensional modelling concepts and demonstrate proficiency in scripting languages, for example, Python, Perl, and so forth
• Demonstrable experience and a deep knowledge of data mining techniques and languages, relational, and non-relational databases

Location

Working at Bank of Ireland doesn't have to mean working in an office to have an impact. Our commitment to enabling colleagues to thrive means that depending on role type you can have choice and flexibility in where you work and live, subject to your role, customer needs and our requirements. We have a hybrid working model, with home, agile hub and office based options available. We will always list a primary location which can be where you go for in person collaboration, and a location where you can best perform your role.

This job can be done anywhere in the Republic of Ireland / Northern Ireland/ United Kingdom with the primary office location as Dublin or Bristol to which travel will be required for in person collaboration.

Exact frequency to be agreed with manager. Please note you must live in the jurisdiction for the business to which you are contracted.