Technical Team Lead: Data
Lead a small, collaborative data team at Transparity, delivering cloud data solutions with integrity, growth, and a one-team culture.
Company culture
Transparity is a fast-growing IT company focusing on Microsoft Cloud based solutions. Our culture has an enviable reputation in the industry which we work hard to maintain. We are focused on creating an inclusive environment where our employees thrive based upon integrity, strong work ethic, a one-team ethos, desire to learn and develop and a commitment to deliver unwavering service excellence to our customers, vendors and partners. Therefore, first and foremost we recruit with our cultural fit in mind.
Job Overview/Purpose
As a Technical Team Lead: Data you will be working as part of an agile team to deliver solutions to our clients ensuring they get maximum value from their data. We play to people’s strengths, and you can expect to be hands-on, providing the opportunity for you to utilise and continually develop your existing technical and project skills to deliver high quality solutions.
The Technical Team Lead role includes line management responsibility, where you will be assigned a number of Technical Consultants.
We work with a Winning from Anywhere® approach but there is an element of travel to client sites when required, along with travel to our company conference and events.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Day-to-day line management of assigned Technical Consultants. This includes regular one-to-one meetings, approving holidays and reporting sickness.
Strong understanding of people operating systems and performance management systems.
Work with the Customer Delivery Manager to optimise the utilisation for all Technical Consultants within team.
Collaboratively work with Pre-sales, Commercial and Project Management teams to ensure projects are correct scoped and delivered effectively.
Working alongside the Technology Delivery Managers and Solution Architects to ensure solutions are delivered consistently and adhering to best practice.
Ensuring your delivery team is planned and scheduled effectively.
Work with the Practice Group Director and Customer Delivery Manager to define and continually measure key performance indicators for the technical team to ensure quality of delivery.
The triage and allocation of resourcing for customer support requests.
Awareness of each individual's full tech stack capabilities so that you can identify areas for technical improvement & development.
Work with the Practice Group Director & Customer Delivery Manager to ensure that there are personal development plans and related objectives for assigned Technical Consultants.
Ensure that assigned Technical Consultants align with appropriate certification, exposure and training to align with planned career progression.
Ensure that assigned Technical Consultants comply with all internal reporting, documentation, processes and Transparity standards.
Ensure that team holidays are proactively planned and prepared for ensuring stability of project and service delivery.
Management, coaching and mentorship of a team of Technical Consultants.
Work closely with other Team Leads to aid structure, on-going team and individual touch points.
Key focus for leadership role is supporting the team and enriching the Transparity Culture.
Assisting with technical delivery when required.
Designing and implementing robust ETL/ELT solutions in the Microsoft/Azure stack, primarily in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks
Designing and implementing data lakes with a medallion design approach.
Scalable solutions to satisfy our clients current and future needs.
Migrating on-premises data solutions to the cloud. So, knowledge of the SQL Server stack (SQL, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS) is beneficial.
The continued support and development of a data solution following go live.
Skills, experience and qualifications
Ability to build relationships within a team and with our clients, creating an environment where people feel they belong and can fully contribute.
Ability to lead and demonstrate role-model behaviours in line with our company values
Extensive experience in a Data Engineering or Data Warehouse Development role involving hands-on experience with the Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, and\or SQL Server technology stacks.
Experience in designing and developing ETL\ELT processes using the above technologies supported with underlying languages such as SQL and Python.
Knowledge of implementing and leveraging data lakes and medallion lake house design.
Experience of working with large data volumes of data from multiple sources.
Experience in writing complex Python \ SQL queries (DDL, DML), Notebooks and/or Stored Procedures.
Exposure to Analysis Services Development Multi-Dimensional\Tabular (MDX, DAX).
Understanding of business intelligence and data warehousing concepts.
Strong database design and development skills in any relational database technology.
Good knowledge of optimisation techniques and design patterns for large data solutions.
Disability Confident
Transparity have a proactive attitude when it comes to looking after the wellbeing and inclusion of all our employees. We promote equal opportunities through our recruitment process and a positive, inclusive culture across the business which we are proud of. We are diverse in our approach to recruitment and recognise that talent comes in all different forms. The diversity in our team is what helps our business work so well.
To find out more about our disability commitment please contact People & Culture or ask during the interview.
Our Offering
In addition to a competitive salary, there are a number of benefits and perks we offer to say thank you for being a part of our journey:
To work at a 3* World Class Best Company
Flexibility over where you work with our Winning from Anywhere® approach
25 days holiday
Home working allowance paid monthly
Winning from Anywhere® allowance to help your set up at home
24/7 GP at hand
Immediate 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme
We’ll support you when you’re not well with our Company sick pay scheme
4x base salary life assurance
Private health insurance after a successful year’s service
Enhanced parental pay and leave, supporting you with those precious life moments
Access to the Perkbox platform to help make your money go further
Cyclescheme
Electric car scheme
And many more!
AI in our recruitment process
At Transparity becoming a Frontier organisation is key to our success, so we use AI to support our recruitment team with tasks such as note‑taking and automating parts of the recruitment process so we can focus more time on meaningful, human conversations and providing a positive candidate experience.
We do not use AI to review, screen, score, or rank applications. All hiring decisions are made by people.
If you have questions about our recruitment process or need adjustments at any stage, please let us know, we’re happy to help.
- Department
- Data
- Locations
- Winning From Anywhere (UK)
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Transparity
Here at Transparity our culture has been at the heart of our success.
We strive to create a strong, inclusive culture where everyone can win; our employees, our customers and Microsoft. This is not only because we truly care about each member of our team, but because we believe that company culture has a direct link to the quality of the services we provide for our customers.