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About the Role
This role will define the future of Data Engineering at Sage, assessing the current team's state, designing the ideal future state, and constructing a new data engineering function. The data estate built must reliably meet the distinct needs of multiple business units, providing a robust, functional, and secure foundation for data, analytics, and decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Shape the data engineering transformation strategy and drive its execution through prioritized initiatives.
- Assess current processes, tooling, skills, tech stack, and automation maturity.
- Assess current team capability and structure, and design and implement a hiring and role-redesign plan.
- Establish data-centric success measures for the data engineering team, setting baseline metrics and defining KPIs.
- Develop and govern the data roadmap in partnership with product and business leadership.
- Set data engineering standards and operating principles.
- Partner with and influence Engineering and Product leadership to embed quality by design.
- Provide transparent, data-driven leadership reporting, communicating progress and assessing risks.
- Embed documentation, playbooks, and knowledge-sharing practices.
- Coach, mentor, and develop a distributed team of data engineering professionals.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in data engineering with a broad commercial understanding of how to implement robust solutions.
- Significant leadership experience managing, mentoring, and coaching a large global data engineering team.
- Broad and deep experience of complex enterprise-level data initiatives.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and applying AI tools.
- Strong communicator and influencer, able to explain technology solutions in business terms.
- Able to define structure and direction in an environment where processes and standards are still being established.
Skills
- Data Engineering
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- CI/CD pipelines
- AI tools
- Communication
- Influencing
- Databricks
- Snowflake
- Fabric
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Significant leadership experience
Salary/Compensations
- £70,000 - £80,000
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and 2 additional floating personal days.
- Hybrid working up to 2 days per week in office.
- Home working allowance.
- Life assurance.
- Income protection.
- Travel insurance.
- Private medical cover.
- Access to the company doctor.
- Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications.
- Access to Sage books and journals.
- Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office.
- Healthy lifestyle reimbursement.
- Anniversary trips.
- Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan).
About the Company
- Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.
- Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965.
- Sage is controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining its independence and mission indefinitely.
- Sage's guaranteed independence allows them to support an equitable academic future, further disciplines that drive social change, and help social and behavioural science make an impact.
- Sage works together by building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning.
- Sage thinks long-term by experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- Sage is a Disability Confident Employer (Level 1).
- Sage is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and to sustaining a culture that celebrates diversity, encourages authenticity, and builds a deep sense of belonging.
- Sage encourages applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or belief.