Data Engineering Lead

at  BirdLife International

Application deadline: Tuesday, 01 October 2024– 23:45
Location: Cambridge / Remote
Full-Time : 35 Hours per week
Contract: Open-ended
Salary: £55,000 per annum, plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave : 25 days pro rata in year 1, increasing by 1 day pa to 28 days
BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.
We are looking for a Data Engineering Lead to head up the team supporting our ERP services, to improve our business data integrations, to help manage our Scientific data real estate and improve data government processes.
This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the transformation of how the organization fundamentally uses data. The work you will undertake will have meaningful widespread implications for the secretariat.
You will work with the business and other technical teams to understand complex and wide-ranging business and technical requirements and to specify, design and select technology solutions that meet those requirements.
You will propose resourcing options for development and ongoing support to business/conservation systems, ensuring development projects are delivered on time and on-budget.

IDEALLY YOU WILL HAVE:

• Comprehensive experience of IaaS services – Azure, AWS.
• Expertise with database development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of Azure Synapse and Azure Data factory.
• Experience with principles of continuous integration and deployment.
• Comprehensive experience of MS Azure.
• Experience of using version control (Git, Github)
• Comprehensive experience of databases. MySQL, TSQL, PostGIS, PostgreSQL.
• Extensive experience in scripting languages: PowerShell, bash, R and Python
• Proven ability to manage multiple technical projects.
• Proven ability to motivate and guide a small busy team.
  See the full job description here.

• Support, manage and maintain the data fabric and underlying systems within the Azure environment.
• Support, maintain, develop and coordinate project work on the Unit 4 ERP solution.
• Line Manage the Data Engineering team within the IT department.
• Research and develop best practices for BirdLife IT in relation to data, advising and working alongside stakeholders to provide a highly available, continuous service.
• Closely aligned with IT support, Web, Web Development and working with the Science and Conservation teams.
• Design, implement, and manage databases and data models using Azure SQL Database, MySQL Database, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and other Azure database services.
• Design and implementation of data strategy to include data pipelines, data warehousing and BI analytics.