Data Engineering Manager

Job content

• Lead a newly formed technical team to deliver powerful data solutions
• Build effective relationships with stakeholders to understand their business area and the data they need to drive value and insight
• Hybrid working options available with up to 80% of your time from home

Join our new Data Centre of Excellence

It’s an exciting time at NFU Mutual, with several strategic change programmes in progress. Data is at the heart of these programmes. So, we’re introducing a new Data Centre of Excellence to drive our data strategy, make the right data accessible to the right people across the business and create a data literate organisation, so our people get the most value from data. It’s about harnessing the power of data to improve experiences for our people, our customers, and our business and you can play a key role.

About the role

As the Data Engineering Manager in our Data Centre of Excellence, you’ll lead the team to design, develop and deliver complex datasets that enable everyone at NFU Mutual to get value from our data.

Offering technical and delivery leadership, you’ll make sure your team delivers standardised, trusted data solutions that can be used for self-service, enabling people across the business to develop insights and make informed, data driven decisions. You’ll need to establish and develop effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels to understand their business area and the data they need to drive value and insight.

At the same time, you’ll give your team the technical leadership to design and build reliable, reusable datasets to meet common business challenges. This includes managing the assessment of data delivery backlogs and providing focus and direction to the team to ensure key stakeholders are clear on priorities and agreed milestones. You’ll also be a technical coach to your team and the wider NFU Mutual data community, advising on how to use business-ready data in line with relevant data standards and architectural principles. In all areas, you’ll strategically plan and sequence your team’s work to align with the wider needs of the business.

This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.

This Data Engineering Manager role is known internally as a Platform Data Engineering Manager

About you

You easily combine your technical ability to build reliable data platforms, with the leadership skills to be a motivational mentor to your team. Naturally, you’re a confident communicator, with the presence to develop excellent working relationships at all levels across our business. To join our team, you must have:

• Experience of delivering strategic data transformation within the insurance, financial services, or a regulated industry
• Ability to create and maintain effective working relationships with stakeholders at senior levels
• Experience of leading, supporting and developing a team
• Experience of Data DevOps and Agile Delivery
• Strong communication, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: Data engineering, Data modelling, Data Analysis, Data architecture, Data management or Data visualisation
• SQL and PowerBI Skills, ideally with Azure Synapse
• Experience using Azure Data Factory

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• £65,000 - £70,000 salary
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies and proud to be Which? Insurance Brand of the Year 2023. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and are one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2023 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021 and the Glassdoor Best 50 Workplaces List 2023.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.