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SalaryData Delivery Lead
Location: Hybrid - London
Package: Negotiable + Benefits
Data and Data services is a key strategic enabler in Brown and Brown Europe as we look to integrate acquired business, enable them to provide great customer service and grow through the provision of superior data services.
The Data Delivery Lead is responsible for ensuring the successful and timely delivery of data projects and initiatives. You will lead a team of Brown & Brown and third-party data specialists, manage resources, and act as a bridge between technical and business stakeholders
The day to day:
You will be an experienced leader who specialises in delivering Data Projects using Agile delivery methods. Your primary responsibilities will include:
Project Leadership: Overseeing data projects from conception to completion. This includes defining project scope, establishing timelines and budgets, and managing risks.
Team Management: Leading and motivating a team of data analysts, engineers, and other specialists. You'll delegate tasks, ensure effective communication, and foster a collaborative work environment.
Stakeholder Management: Working closely with business stakeholders to understand their data needs, translate them into technical requirements, and ensure delivered solutions meet their expectations.
Resource Management: Optimising the use of data expertise within the team, balancing ongoing tasks with project demands.
Project Delivery: Responsible for all aspects of Data Services lifecycle delivery - from concept/inception, engineering in iterations, release to go live, maintenance and operations and eventual retirement of data services. Agile methods to be used wherever possible
Data Delivery: Ensuring data is delivered accurately, efficiently, and according to agreed-upon timelines and quality standards. Observability and service delivery metrics to be implemented.
Communication & Collaboration: Serving as a central point of contact for all Data Delivery activities. You'll clearly communicate project progress, roadblocks, and solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Team Player - Building a highly engaged and effective data services squad, that operates well within and aligns to the wider European Data tribe, and Group Data team. You will leverage and contribute to best practices in Data Delivery
About you:
Experience as a Delivery Lead / Scrum Master in data engineering projects
Experience within technology software / data engineering
Experience delivering multi-source, multi-TB, mission critical data solutions
Experience implementing cloud-based data and analytics solutions
Experience implementing and operating within robust data governance principles - metadata, discovery, tagging and classification, quality, catalogues, inventory and data lineage
The successful candidate will successfully blend excellent leadership with deep technical expertise
Deep hands-on experience with the following Data Delivery tools and methods:
Expertise in Project Management methodologies - Agile
Experience delivering within Azure Dev Ops, including observability of flow and quality
Experience writing business cases and track record of delivering impactful business value through data
Familiarity with Data Engineering design patterns and best practice, including data pipelines
Experience delivering projects in the Microsoft stack - Azure Data factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Power Platform, Power BI
The rewards:
A negotiable basic salary and all the normal benefits you'd expect (Holiday, company pension etc.)
A collaborative, open and honest environment that is designed to deliver the best outcomes to our clients and staff
A flexible working methodology to enable you to be where you need to be, if you don't need to be in an office then don't, if you want to be in an office your welcome to use one.
An environment built around supporting and developing our staff with funding available for relevant professional qualifications.
