Data Engineering Manager

Discipline: Standard

Job type: Permanent

Job ref: 010462

Published: 4 months ago

Salary: circa £90,000 (advertised salary achievable for a candidate fulfilling all role criteria)

Job Type: Permanent

In March 2021, Correla was created, as an independently owned business to bring in private investment to fuel innovation in the centre of the energy market and beyond.

Correla is derived from correlation, because we're all about exploring and enhancing relationships between data, people, and processes. Our SaaS products and Managed Service solutions combine to power industry innovation, simplify an increasingly complex market, and deliver cost and operational efficiencies.

Our goal is to support industry transformation, to move to a net-zero future and to positively impact the end-consumer.

• Team Leadership & People Development: Build and lead high-performing Data Engineering team through coaching, mentoring and performance management. Create a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement while developing future technical and people leaders.
• Delivery & Execution: Ensure the successful delivery and operation of data platforms, pipelines, models and reporting services, balancing business priorities, technical quality and operational reliability.
• Data Engineering Excellence: Promote high standards across data engineering, data platform development, testing, governance, security and operational support, ensuring data solutions are reliable, maintainable, scalable and trusted.
• Technical Leadership: Create an environment where strong technical decisions can be made by empowering data engineers and technical specialists, supporting architectural direction and ensuring solutions remain sustainable, secure and aligned with future business needs.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Operations and business stakeholders to align data platforms, reporting capabilities and information services with organizational priorities and customer needs.
• Data Governance and Operational Ownership: Ensure the team takes ownership of the platforms, pipelines and reporting services they build and support, maintaining high standards of data quality, governance, reliability and performance.

• People Leadership: Experience building, leading and developing high-performing data engineering, reporting or technical teams. Ability to coach technical specialists and emerging leaders while fostering a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Data Platform Delivery: Strong track record of delivering data platforms, pipelines, semantic models and reporting services that balance business priorities, technical quality and operational requirements.
• Technical Capability: Strong understanding of modern data architectures, engineering practices, modelling approaches and reporting technologies. Able to guide technical decisions without becoming the primary contributor.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to build strong relationships across engineering, operational and business functions, translating organisational needs into effective data and reporting solutions.
• Data Governance & Quality: understanding data governance, quality management, lineage, security and compliance principles, ensuring trusted and well-managed data Assets.
• Data Platform Expertise: Experience designing, building and operating data platforms, semantic models and data services that provide trusted, scalable and well-governed data across the organisation.
• Continuous Improvement: Demonstrated ability to improve organisational effectiveness through process, tooling, automation and data-driven decision-making.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term platform and data capability investment, aligning team objectives with wider business goals and organisational strategy.

• Locate for your day
• Uncapped annual leave
• 6-12% Pension Contribution
• Private Healthcare
• Up to 26 weeks' full pay equal parent leave
• Wellbeing Services
• And more!

At Correla, we are committed to working towards being a more diverse and inclusive workplace where our people can truly be themselves. We recognise the benefits of having talented people from a range of backgrounds and cultures who bring different perspectives, life experiences and diversity of thinking.

Our aim is to attract and retain the very best diverse talent to help create an exciting, innovative, and successful business that enables us to deliver an exceptional experience for our customers. We would therefore like to encourage applications from people with varied skillsets and experience and from different backgrounds and sectors to help shape our future.

Correla is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We believe in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group, ancestry, place of origin, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender re-assignment, age, record of offences, marital/civil partnership status, family status, pregnancy, maternity and paternity, religion/belief or disability. We promise that your opportunity for employment with us depends solely on your qualifications and relevant experience.