Data Engineering Manager

The Data Engineering Manager is a key role in the Data Platform Portfolio team, building the data platform, driving value from data across the business.

With strong technical skills and business acumen to help turn millions of potential data points into actionable insights that can drive product improvements, make our customer acquisition more efficient, improve our customer retention rates, and drive operating efficiencies across the business.

The primary goals of the team are:

• To build and run an data platform which can create and deliver analytics to colleagues and deliver reporting and business insights
• Ingest and transform data from multiple systems, modelling data and engineering data marts to create reusable data assets
• To create a self service BI platform, enabling colleagues across Rentokil Initial to get value from data

Main Responsibilities:

Lead a team of Data Engineers and Analysts to build and operate the Data and Analytics platform for Rentokil Initial.

• This role will be pivotal to:
• ● Defining data principles, data architecture and data governance for the data platform
• ● Delivering data quality assessments and improvement plans

● Directly and indirectly, delivering key reports and analytical insight to a wide variety of stakeholders

● Supporting the data agenda with platform reporting and strategy Enable the Data Community across Rentokil Initial to get value from data and to empower local Data discovery & insights, using a self-serve framework

• Catalogue & Communicate the Data platform data sets available for use to digital product teams
• Develop report automation use cases demonstrating how migrating from traditional method improves quality of data and improves efficiency
• Explore key innovation initiatives with the business to help reimagine how we use data and find the value in our data
• Collaborate across the organisation to build solutions that serve multiple areas of the business
• Accountable for performance of 3rd party suppliers providing data analysis delivery services

Requirements

Previous experience leading a team of Software Engineers, taking responsibility for their personal development and coaching them on the behaviors needed for success.

● Prior experience of scaling/growing technology teams

● Technical leadership experience, architecting, designing and leading a team through complex software delivery projects to deliver great business outcomes

● Good understanding and track record of delivering complex data solutions using Agile methods including Scrum, SAFe etc.

● Excellent communication skills, capable of talking to people across IT and business, as well as to stakeholders at various levels of the company,

● Advanced experience in designing and creating data models

● Strong with SQL for data interrogation and transformation, a robust understanding of relational data and the ability to manipulate fact data along multiple dimensions.

● Experience with deploying solutions in Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP), ideally GCP

● Overall business intelligence knowledge

● Experience using ETL tools to deliver data integration for batch and streaming use cases

● Willingness to self-study and learn new skills to handle any upcoming tasks,

● Hands-on experience of modern software CI/CD techniques to automate the build and deployment of data solutions

● Use of source code version control (e.g. Git, Bitbucket)

● Desirable to have experience in the exploitation of real-time processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark or Apache Beam) and associated business use cases

● Desirable to have experience working with BigQuery, Java and/or Python

● Experience working with and adhering to Information Security standards, support procedures and incident response

● Strong prioritisation and communication skills

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.

We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to (joanna.sharpe@rentokil-initial.com) if you need anything

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