Technical Lead

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Job Title: Technical Lead

Business Unit: Change & Delivery, Data Solutions

Salary: Starting from £39,689 - £51,000 per annum DOE

Location: UK, Flexible

Contract Type: Permanent

Do you have the skills to develop your career in CIO?

As Virgin Money executes its Data Strategy and continues to build a strategic data asset (the data fabric) on AWS we have a position as a Tech Lead – Big Data available.

We are looking for an experienced Technical Lead who has passion for technology and a drive to deliver data led solutions. We need people to help us shape the future of our data landscape, drive forward our data strategy and help deliver our digital banking ambitions using cloud technologies. All of this while keeping the bank safe.

What would my day look like?

As a Technical Lead you’ll be working within an established team to provide direction and leadership. You will be the go-to person for data engineers to guide them in the best way to solve problems centred around data. You will work with an awesome team of Designers, Senior Data Engineers, Data Engineers, Architects, and Analysts to help to promote and implement best practice principles throughout the project lifecycle. Working alongside Delivery Managers you will work on projects that deliver data led solutions for business areas across the bank. Continuous improvement and automation of the DevOps pipeline will also be part of the role, working with the service manager and support team to ensure smooth transition of the deliveries into production. As part of Data Solutions you will be a driving force on our journey to our cloud hosted data platform which is the foundation of our digital bank.

What’s missing?

To be brilliant we need someone with strong leadership skills, a strategic vision, and the ability to build strong business relationships. As an engaging individual you will enjoy building relationships and have the gravitas and confidence to work effectively with all levels across the business. You will also need to show a passion for data engineering and a knowledge of big data platforms and large scale data transformation programmes. Therefore if you want to help drive the banks data & digital transformation and play an integral role in our transformation journey we’d love to hear from you.

There Are a Few Essentials You Need To Bring...

• Experience in data engineering including a background in traditional data warehousing/databases
• Experience of working in a Cloud environment (AWS, Azure)
• Experience of Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, HIVE)
• Solid technical background building data pipelines with an ETL tool
• Experience of processing large amount of data
• Solid experience with continuous delivery principles, version control and automated data tests
  

We’d love you to have...

• Knowledge of Data Stage, Oracle Warehouse Builder, PL/SQL
• SQL/NoSQL, Python, Glue, Dynamo DB
  

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the ’There are a few essentials you need to bring’ section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!

RED HOT Rewards

• A generous holiday package and the option to buy more!
• Private Medical Insurance - with the option to extend to family members.
• Pension! A market leading pension – we’ll top up your contributions too.
• Flexible benefits – customise your rewards to work for you!
  

Inclusion at Virgin Money

Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It’s good for you, it’s good for us and it’s amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We’d love to hear from you so get in touch with our friendly team at or

Point to note…

At the minute, depending on which team you are joining, lots of us are working from home. This is something that may change over time, and if so, we will come together in one of our hub locations, giving you the chance to meet your new colleagues in person. We will of course, make sure you have the IT equipment to access our systems and to interact digitally with your new team and colleagues, but we thought it best to let you know this in advance, so you can make sure you are set up to work safely and productively. If you have any questions on this let us know!

Now the legal bit…

If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years’ worth of satisfactory references.