Data Platform Lead

Milton Keynes
1 week ago
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Your new company
You will be working for a large, well-known organisation who are a powerhouse within their industry.
Your new role
You will manage a team of technical specialists, ensure platform stability and performance, and drive continuous improvement across their data services.
Key responsibilities:

Lead, mentor and manage a team of data platform specialists.
Oversee resource planning and delivery across design, projects, operations and change.
Act as an SME for the Data Platform and own platform design and supplier relationships.
Maintain platform availability, capacity and configuration, managing risk and downtime.
Lead incident and problem management, ensuring root cause analysis and timely resolution.
Support operations with appropriate out of hours cover.
Ensure proactive monitoring, patching, upgrades and adherence to change processes.
Provide technical support to projects and cross‑functional teams.What you'll need to succeed

Proven experience in technical leadership or management roles.
Strong background in incident, request, change and problem management to SLA.
Must have experience with terraform.
Experience implementing cloud technologies using Azure.
Hands on experience with Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server is essential.
Extensive experience managing and supporting complex data platforms.
Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.What you'll get in return
A permanent role that's paying up to £75,000pa with additional benefits that also has hybrid working on offer.
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