Head Of Data Engineering

Description:

The UKHSA Data Operations Directorate provides strategic leadership and oversight for developing and managing a common and bespoke suite of performant, modern, secure, data and analytical tools, services, platforms and applications, ensuring access to high quality data and analytics services, internally and externally.

Main duties of the job

You will work in the Data Engineering and Enablement Division that reports into the Data Operations Directorate. It’s an exciting time to join as we seek to create leading Health Protection data capabilities that enable data scientists and data analysts to develop insights that inform public health decisions with resilience platforms and curated data assets.

The core activities of Engineering and Enablement include the ingestion of data sources, building data pipelines, curated data views and data capabilities fused from data, models and software that enable the exploitation of data by analysts, data scientists and MI teams.

You will lead a number of engineering squads along with other Heads of Engineering in the Data Engineering and Enablement Division and reports to the Deputy Director of Engineering and Enablement.

As Head of Data Engineering, you will lead a multi-functional delivery team, to deliver robust data ingestion services to support data analysts, reporters and data scientists for a variety of stakeholders, data scientists and engineers. You will inspire best practice for data products and services within your team.

You will manage the capabilities developed through agile methodologies, alongside the team’s scrum master and operate to defined priorities set by the Data Operations prioritisation front door process. You will build and manage a data engineering capability as part of a world class data operations function, by providing technical leadership and career development for the community. You will work with other senior members of the business to identify, plan, develop and deliver data services.