Data Engineering Manager 56354

Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe's leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work - a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.

Do you want to be part of a team that is pushing aside boundaries and bursting out into the Cloud? If you thrive in an environment where no two days are the same, want to influence, create and work with exciting cutting-edge technologies, then this role could be for you.

The Data Engineering Manager for Visualisation will lead a team of analysts that take our various internal customer requests and turn them in to BI & MI products. You'll actively look to consolidate our wide range of reports and solutions into modern, easy to digest, simple and effective self-service capabilities, as well as maintaining our existing reporting suites, to keep pace with business demand.

What you'll do:

- Build a high performing team through coaching, mentoring, clear direction and effective management
- Ensure that your team are working in a common way, aligned with peers and the wider DTA, and that there is clear understanding of the role they play
- Management of your team's workload and priorities, providing clear visibility, ensuring we have the right resource available to work within our squads - based not just on availability of resource, but with an eye on what is right to grow and develop our people. Help Identify, document and manage delivery risks and issues, ensuring we deliver against agreed timelines, quality standards and service levels
- Ensure your team are delivering against visualisation best practices, as well as internal and external regulatory & compliance standards, such as GDPR, internal audit and ITIL
- Work with architecture and engineering teams to help shape our future roadmap, keeping across industry BI & MI developments and products, to ensure that we get the best from our current technology and understand what impact new technologies can offer
- Significantly contribution towards the creation, maintenance and articulation to your team of a clear roadmap of how we consolidate and deprecate our legacy solutions, transitioning to self-service solutions, built on top of our core data platforms in the Cloud

What you'll bring:

- Experience in managing development of on-prem and transitioning to cloud based self-service data product solutions
- A positive & enthusiastic, can do attitude, with a passion to do the right thing, questioning the status quo, to continually improve and add value to both what we do and how we do it
- Worked and managed in mixed methodology delivery models, including waterfall and Agile
- Excellent understanding and practical experience of complex SQL, data transformation, and 3rd party platforms, such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, Data Studio.
- Extensive experience of large teams based on and off-shore, in a fast paced, highly demanding environment.
- A great communicator, both verbal and written, with excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work with a wide range of people but also an analytical mind with a sharp eye for detail

Group Data Hub

Want to unlock the power of data? Our Group Data Hub works with millions of data transformations every day to deliver value, improve customer experience and enable new product launches. From architecture to analytics and engineering to science: it's how we bring customers more of what they love.

The Rewards:
There's a reason people can't stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

- Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounted mobile and broadband
- Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you'll work:
We know the world has changed, and we want to offer our employees the chance to collaborate at our unique office spaces, whilst enjoying the convenience of working from home.

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. You'll find out more about what this means for this role during the recruitment process.

Your office base

Osterley:
Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There's also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you'll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:
We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we've been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we've committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We've also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity