Technical Team Lead: Data

Personio GmbH; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Technical Team Lead: Data. You will lead a team of Technical Consultants, ensuring successful project delivery and fostering an inclusive team culture. The ideal candidate has extensive data engineering experience and expertise in ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python. This role offers flexibility and comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and parental leave.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Private health insurance after one year

Work-from-home allowance

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build strong relationships and foster teamwork.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Data Engineering and Data Warehouse development.
• Solid understanding of data lake implementation and optimization techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Technical Consultants.
• Manage resource planning, scheduling, and holiday management.
• Collaborate with Pre-sales and Project Management teams.

Skills

Relationship building

Leadership skills

Data Engineering

Data Warehouse development

ETL/ELT processes

SQL and Python expertise

Understanding of BI concepts

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Databricks

SQL Server

Job description

Who we're looking for

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 utilize 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.

What you'll be delivering

• Lead and mentor a team of Technical Consultants, ensuring engagement, growth, and alignment with company culture.
• Oversee resource planning, scheduling, and holiday management to maintain smooth project and service delivery.
• Collaborate with Pre-sales, Commercial, and Project Management teams to scope and deliver projects effectively.
• Drive performance management, personal development plans, and certification pathways for team members.
• Ensure consistent delivery of technical solutions in line with best practices and Transparity standards.
• Support technical delivery when needed, including designing scalable data solutions in Microsoft/Azure environments.
• Contribute to innovation by implementing cloud migrations, data lakes, and robust ETL/ELT solutions for client needs.

We think you'll be successful in this role if you have some of the following

• Proven ability to build strong relationships and foster an inclusive, collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with a track record of role-modeling company values.
• Extensive hands-on experience in Data Engineering or Data Warehouse development using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, and/or SQL Server.
• Expertise in designing and developing ETL/ELT processes with SQL and Python.
• Strong knowledge of data lake implementation and medallion lakehouse architecture.
• Skilled in managing large, complex datasets and writing advanced SQL/Python queries, notebooks, and stored procedures.
• Solid understanding of BI and data warehousing concepts, database design, and optimization techniques for large-scale solutions.

What we’re offer in return

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!

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.