Lead Data Engineer

As a Lead Data Engineer or architect at Made Tech, you'll play a pivotal role in helping public sector organisations become truly data-lead by equipping them with robust data platforms. You'll also join a data team on its mission to get data knowledge and skills out of silos and embedded into delivery teams.

Combining cloud engineering knowledge with a collaborative approach, you will work closely with stakeholders to cut through technical complexity, helping translate ambiguous user needs into clear, scalable, and effective data solutions.

You will take a lead role in multidisciplinary delivery teams to design and implement efficient, secure, and maintainable data storage and pipeline solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, shape, and implement cloud-native data strategies, and security-first engineering.
• Empower public sector teams to unlock the strategic value of their data by designing scalable, high-impact data solutions..
• Establish yourself as a trusted advisor in data driven approaches using public cloud services like AWS, Azure and GCP.
• As employee growth is a huge focus here at Made Tech, we would expect you to contribute to our recruitment efforts and encourage you to take on line management responsibilities.
• In some cases, you will work within the larger MadeTech team to identify growth opportunities within the account.
• Contribute to our practice by sharing knowledge, coordinating presentations and representing the capability internally and externally

Job Benefits

Life at Made Tech

We’re committed to building a happy, inclusive and diverse workforce. You can get a sense of what it’s like working here from our blog, where we talk about mental health, communities of practice and neurodiversity (as well as our client work and best practice).

Like many organisations, we use Slack to foster a sense of community and connection. As well as special interest groups such as music, food and pets, we also have 10+ Slack channels dedicated to specific communities, allies, and identities as well as dedicated learning spaces called communities of practice (COPs). If you’d like to speak to someone from one of these groups about their experience as an employee, please do let a member of the Made Tech talent team know.

Benefits

We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to.

Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

✈️ 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave

👶 Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options

👩‍💻 Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff

🤗 Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.
📈 Pension - 7% employer matched

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we're looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility.Eligibility for SC requires 5 years' UK residency and 5 year' employment history (or back to full-time education). Ideally, no more than 30 consecutive days spent outside the UK within the last five years. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won't be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.