Devops Data Engineer

Job Title:DevOps Data Engineer
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: Dependant on experience
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid #smartworking

DevOps Data Engineer: The Enterprise Data Services (EDS) team work in a fast-paced data delivery environment, with multiple workstreams developing data deliveries to the Centralised data platform (CDP). Due to the number of squads potentially working on the same data there is a need for a DevOps Data engineer to cover the following:

· Review upcoming or current developments to make sure development clashes are identified and managed accordingly.

· Link in with the different delivery roles within EDS (Data analysts, modellers, engineers, testers and business SME's) making them aware of potential, or known, data clashes.

· Review EDS roadmaps from release perspective

· Link in with project release managers around upcoming releases and also update and attend CAB forum

· Report to EDS leadership view of delivery roadmap

Main Responsibilities as DevOps Data Engineer:

· Maintain release roadmap to the CDP making sure all developments do not create release clashes but also all dependant releases have the time to go through the release process.

· The maintenance of the CI/CD approach, making sure releases are done as Minimum viable products or as close as possible, keeping EDS as true to Agile deliveries as possible.

· Make sure each role has the level of detail required by the previous development role (release packs)

· Creation of roadmap report for EDS leadership awareness as well as Data platform line management.

· Main link into release managers and CAB forum for wider business awareness of EDS deployments.

· Review of release process for performance gains or to enhance the current release process.

· Facilitate the Scrum masters with the scrum ceremonies (Scrums, refinements, retrospectives, sprint planning)

· Coordinate release activity over all EDS development squads.

· Releasing deployments through each environment when required, ensuring right version of code in required environments

· Highlight risk and issues relevant for the release

· Produce relevant release documentations as needed

Skills and experience you need as DevOps Data Engineer:

· Maintain release roadmap to the CDP making sure all developments do not create release clashes but also all dependant releases have the time to go through the release process.

· The maintenance of the CI/CD approach, making sure releases are done as Minimum viable products or as close as possible, keeping EDS as true to Agile deliveries as possible.

· Make sure each role has the level of detail required by the previous development role (release packs)

· Creation of roadmap report for EDS leadership awareness as well as Data platform line management.

· Main link into release managers and CAB forum for wider business awareness of EDS deployments.

· Review of release process for performance gains or to enhance the current release process.

· Facilitate the Scrum masters with the scrum ceremonies (Scrums, refinements, retrospectives, sprint planning)

· Good understanding and working experience with Azure DevOps, and Data Platform systems.

· Highly collaborative who can work with multiply disciplinary team.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the DevOps Data Engineer role based in Eastleigh:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:
We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our people help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see Ageas Everyone.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.
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