Data Engineering Lead

2 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom ODEON Full time

Job Purpose:

The Data Engineering Lead plays a pivotal role in implementing the data engineering strategy for ODEON Cinemas Group, ensuring seamless delivery and maintenance of high-quality data to support the data analyst community. This involves overseeing the development, operation, and maintenance of data pipelines to extract, load, and transform data sources from both internal and external providers. The role is responsible for monitoring and maintaining data quality, ensuring it meets the required standards.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the activities required to deliver and maintain agreed data products to support the data analyst community across ODEON Cinemas Group.
  • Develop, operate, and maintain data pipelines to extract, load, and transform data sources from both internal and external/third-party providers.
  • Collaborate with OCG IT Architecture to establish standard technology patterns and frameworks for data ingestion and transformation.
  • Drive standardization, simplification, and efficiency of data engineering processes.
  • Work with Heads of Data and Analytics throughout the group to understand and prioritize demand for the data engineering team.
  • Own the operating model for ensuring good quality data is delivered on a day-to-day basis, including clear communication to data users during incidents.
  • Directly manage a central team of data engineers and indirectly manage data engineers embedded with local data analytics teams.
  • Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to the data engineering team.
  • Share technical knowledge, experience, and thought leadership with data and analytics teams across OCG.
  • Embed processes, OCG toolsets, and required skillsets to support business growth and increasing IT data engineering maturity.
  • Provide consultancy to business data analyst teams regarding the complexity and feasibility of onboarding new data sources and building new data products.
  • Work with business stakeholders and the data architecture function to establish and be the custodian of a data catalogue providing ease of data discovery, business data glossary, supporting data governance, and articulating current data usage and lineage.
  • Establish metrics for assessing and measuring data quality and build approaches to maintain data quality to the agreed level.
  • Regularly report progress and issues to senior stakeholders.
  • Establish strong internal collaborative relationships with all functions, especially the data and analytics teams.

Key Skills:

  • Proven experience in leading, prioritizing, implementing, and managing data engineering activities across multiple data products and pipelines.
  • Previous experience in a team leadership position and experience of managing demand and people through significant technology change would be an advantage.
  • Experience in monitoring, measuring, and maintaining data quality, including knowledge of test approaches for automated data pipelines.
  • Strong experience in modern analytics and big data architectures in an Azure environment with a focus on Azure Data Lake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI architectures.
  • Experience in using a wide range of data ingestion approaches.
  • Ability to deliver complex big data solutions with structured and unstructured data.
  • Experience with SQL, Python, and Spark, ideally as implemented on Databricks.
  • Experience with operational management of working data pipelines, including troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Experience with version control and CI/CD in the data engineering context, ideally using git and Azure DevOps.
  • Ability to work using Agile to deliver regular releases and improvements to users.
  • Great communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels.

ODEON Benefits:

  • Unlimited free cinema tickets for you and 12 friends and family tickets every three months.
  • 40% discount on our food and drinks, including our in-cinema Costa Coffee stores.
  • Private Medical Insurance.
  • Life Assurance.
  • Critical Illness Cover.
  • Free access to our confidential Employee Assistance Programme – an online platform that offers advice and support on topics including finance, health, and mental wellbeing.
  • The opportunity to gain professional qualifications through our Brights Lights Apprenticeship scheme.
  • Fantastic career development opportunities across our cinemas and support offices.
  • Monthly rewards and recognition schemes.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Bonus scheme.

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