Data Engineering Lead

Application deadline:  Friday, 31 January 2025 - 23:45
Location: Cambridge / Remote

Full-Time : 35 Hours per week
Contract: Open-ended

Salary: £55,000 per annum, plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave : 25 days pro rata in year 1, increasing by 1 day pa to 28 days

BirdLife International is the world’s largest nature conservation partnership. Through our unique local-to-global approach, we deliver high impact and long-term conservation for the benefit of nature and people.

We are looking for a Data Engineering Lead to head up the team supporting our ERP services, to improve our business data integrations, to help manage our Scientific data real estate and improve data government processes.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the transformation of how the organization fundamentally uses data. The work you will undertake will have meaningful widespread implications for the secretariat.

You will work with the business and other technical teams to understand complex and wide-ranging business and technical requirements and to specify, design and select technology solutions that meet those requirements. 

You will propose resourcing options for development and ongoing support to business/conservation systems, ensuring development projects are delivered on time and on-budget.

How you will do this:

• Support, manage and maintain the data fabric and underlying systems within the Azure environment.
• Support, maintain, develop and coordinate project work on the Unit 4 ERP solution.
• Line Manage the Data Engineering team within the IT department.
• Research and develop best practices for BirdLife IT in relation to data, advising and working alongside stakeholders to provide a highly available, continuous service.
• Closely aligned with IT support, Web, Web Development and working with the Science and Conservation teams.
• Design, implement, and manage databases and data models using Azure SQL Database, MySQL Database, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and other Azure database services.
• Design and implementation of data strategy to include data pipelines, data warehousing and BI analytics.

Ideally you will have:

• Comprehensive experience of IaaS services – Azure, AWS.
• Expertise with database development and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience of Azure Synapse and Azure Data factory.
• Experience with principles of continuous integration and deployment.
• Comprehensive experience of MS Azure.
• Experience of using version control (Git, Github)
• Comprehensive experience of databases. MySQL, TSQL, PostGIS, PostgreSQL.
• Extensive experience in scripting languages: PowerShell, bash, R and Python
• Proven ability to manage multiple technical projects.
• Proven ability to motivate and guide a small busy team.

See the full job description here.

Some of our benefits:

• We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.
• A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’
• A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.
• Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.
• Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal (webinars, nutritional advice, 4-week programmes, financial wellbeing and more).

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We will consider putting into place appropriate reasonable adjustments for candidates who may have a disability.

Interviews: Interviews will be held week commencing 10 February 2025