Birmingham, West Midlands (England), B1 2AX : Liverpool, North West England, L3 1BP : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZ
As the Head of Data Engineering and Data Platform, you will lead the design, development, and management of our cloud-based data environment, ensuring it meets the organisation's current and future needs. You will drive the growth and evolution of the Platform, identifying opportunities to adopt new technologies and enhance capabilities to support the Agency. This is a critical role within the Data & Analytics directorate, where you will oversee the end-to-end engineering of data pipelines, ensuring the efficient ingestion, transformation, and accessibility of trusted data across the agency. Your work will underpin the agency’s data-driven decision-making, enabling advanced analytics, AI, and innovation.
You will provide strategic leadership to the data platform team, driving the adoption of emerging technologies and ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and aligned with organisational objectives. As Head of Profession for data engineers, you will ensure that the agency has the right skills, capacity and flexibility to meet its aspirations. By collaborating with data governance, architecture, and analytics teams, you will create a robust, well-structured data ecosystem that supports efficient data operations and enhances user experience. In this role, you will balance strategic oversight with practical delivery, ensuring delivery of a reliable, high-performing data platform.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of data engineering at Homes England. Through your leadership, the agency will develop cutting-edge capabilities to streamline operations, support innovation, and deliver measurable value. You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation, ensuring the data platform is aligned with business priorities and contributes directly to the agency’s mission in housing and regeneration.
You are a visionary leader with a proven track record in designing and managing cloud-based data platforms at an enterprise level. With significant experience in data engineering and a deep understanding of data management principles, you are adept at translating complex technical concepts into strategies that support organisational goals. Your hands-on approach, paired with a strategic mindset, ensures the delivery of impactful solutions that drive measurable results.
As an experienced leader, you excel at building and leading high-performing teams, fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with stakeholders across the organisation, aligning data initiatives with business needs, and advocating for a data-driven culture. Your ability to identify and adopt emerging technologies further demonstrates your commitment to advancing the organisation’s data capabilities.
Adaptable and flexible, you thrive in a fast-paced environment and view challenges as opportunities for growth. With a focus on operational excellence, you are dedicated to ensuring that data is accessible, secure, and well-managed. Your leadership and passion for driving positive change make you a key figure in enabling the organisation to achieve its ambitions through the power of data.
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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