Lead Data Platform Engineer

SALARY:  Up to £71,000 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role. This team are in up to 3 days each week so please make sure that you can do this before applying

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time permanent 35 hours per week

CLOSING DATE: 19th September We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.

We’re looking for a Lead Data Platform Engineer to lead, support and advance our current, transitional and future Enterprise Data & BI technology and data platform initiatives - Interested? Excited? read on

In this newly created, critical role you will be establishing the data platform strategy, roadmap, standards, policies and best practises - addressing both current and future complex data platform engineering, technical and security requirements. Still with us? keep reading and apply as soon as you can

What you’ll be doing:

• You'll provide strategic, platform and technical leadership in our Enterprise Data & BI function within established data architecture blueprints and strategy, both locally and with our HQ in Germany
• Support developing our enterprise data target operating model by leading data platform capability in conjunction with the wider data team including design and deployment of data platform technologies and, policies, best practise, compliance and governance
•  Lead the management and continuous upgrades of all platforms in conjunction with HQ, 3rd party suppliers, wider data team, IT security and infrastructure to ensure compliance of our platforms
• Responsibility for all data platform documentation using methodologies such as Jira and Confluence to provide reporting
• You'll lead enterprise data platform outcomes through our PI/Agile planning and delivery, making informed decisions on complex issues to support solution and data product development
• Communicating your shared technical goals and direction for the team, train and guide them for effective implementation across all data products, domains and other data capabilities
• Lead the Data Platform Engineering Community of Practise (COP) updating on industry trends and developments

What you’ll bring:

You’ll be an experienced Data & BI professional who has proven leadership of platform teams, platform management, data transformation & structures, metadata, dependency and workload management 

You’ll have a great understanding of industry standard enterprise data platforms and technologies and a passion for sharing this knowledge to achieve fantastic customer outcomes

Essential experience & skills

• Expert knowledge of data platforms such as Informatica (IPC/IDMC), SAP Data Services, Collibra, Tableau, SAP Business Objects and Oracle Datawarehouse
• You'll have advanced data knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (Oracle SQL & PL/SQL) and a variety of other databases
• You fully understand enterprise data management capabilities - data platforms, data engineering, BI, data governance, data architecture and data operations
• Experience in maintenance and upgrades of enterprise data and BI platforms and, you can build and optimise big data pipelines, architectures and data sets
• You have strong ETL design and development experience and knowledge of data pipeline (DS scheduler, Automic, Airflow) and product workflow management tools
• We don't just need your technical expertise, you'll be working with a broad spectrum of people so need to be good at managing stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers potentially UK and Germany  
• There's a lot of communication involved so you need to great at this and adapting to your audience
• You have worked within Agile teams, values streams and COP, working across functions in a dynamic environment and achieving results through people
• Experienced in performing root cause analysis on data and BI platforms and processes in response to business requirements and to identify opportunities for improvement
• We're forward thinking so you'll embrace learning and adoption of new technology and encourage others

What’s in it for you?

Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)

Pension:  Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance  

OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover),  access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

Why join VWFS UK?

You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference through using your expert knowledge of data platforms and platform management helping us to achieve our mission.

Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.