Associate Director of Data Engineering (UK Wide)

All our office locations considered: Newbury, London (satellite) and Liverpool.

📝 We are growing – fast – and have big ambitions across both the consultancy and technology spaces. In order to achieve these ambitions, we’re hiring an ambitious Associate Director of Data Engineering to join our growing team. We are flexible with location (although must be based in the UK), offer great benefits, and the opportunity to continue to grow a high-performing team with a clear mission for the development of our data function.

💜 About Intuita

We are a leading boutique data consultancy providing some of Europe’s most respected brands with cutting edge data solutions.Our reputation is built on our ability to deliver end-to-end data solutions at the highest quality, from data strategy and architecture to analytics, predictive modelling, business intelligence, and data visualisation.

By joining Intuita you will gain experience working on a range of exciting, challenging, and complex projects with a variety of clients including established brands, fast-growing start-ups and multinationals.

You will be engaging with senior level stakeholders and be required to deliver work that will have a direct positive impact on their commercial decision making. We pride ourselves in being a small, independent, and dynamic business that has an excellent track record developing talented individuals, helping them grow professionally and personally through mentorship, client-side experience, and industry exposure.

📝 The role

We are looking for a leader in the data space to help us expand our delivery capacity whilst maintaining the high level of quality, pragmatism and honesty we have become known for. The individual will work closely with our Data Delivery Director to lead client engagements, nurture our high-performance delivery culture, and set the strategic direction of projects to the delivery teams. They will be able to draw from real-life hands-on experience and will be able make significant contributions to delivery of projects.

As the leader of an already experienced and talented data team, this individual is expected to provide clarity of thinking, technical excellence, and great client engagement within a growing consultancy business. They should be adaptable across the data lifecycle beyond data engineering, including data modelling, business analysis, data governance and data management.

Key outputs for the role include:

• Owning the vision: Leaning on experience and technical expertise to set a vision for delivery.

• Building business context into design: Leading pragmatic high level design that is relevant and valuable to the client.
• Stakeholder buy in: Presenting detailed and succinct presentations of both as-is and to-be solutions to senior and exec-level client stakeholders.
• Driving team performance: Ensuring that all team members are applying themselves in the best possible way and delivering work to the highest standard.
• Creating a high performance environment: Line management of the data engineering team, creating an environment of collaboration, support, development and high performance.

🧑 A bit about you

We have a strong ethos of accountability, quality and integrity at Intuita and like to work with people who believe in this too. We also really value collaboration and teamwork, working together to solve problems but always having fun along the way. We want you to bring your own personality and approach to the role, but you’ll also need:

Required Skills and Experience

Required Characteristics:

• Proactive, dynamic, and driven by delivering quality work, with a great eye for detail
• Takes accountability and ownership of tasks, and finds a way to make it happen
• Ability to motivate and manage a team made up of dynamic individuals
• An excellent communicator who can make sense of and communicate complex ideas

• Is not afraid to speak up and have an opinion in internal or client meetings
• Is able to quickly become an expert in the client’s business, being able to pre-empt their needs and navigate their worlds.
• Is a strategic and deep-critical thinker who is always looking for the best way to solve a problem

Desired Experience:

• Degree in relevant field (e.g. Computer Science or equivalent experience)

• A strong data background with the ability to cultivate technical discussions at all levels
• Extensive experience working as a data engineer within both on-prem and cloud based environments
• Experienced in a wide range of data engineering tools and techniques, preferably applied within multiple industries
• Experience managing people, including recruitment, retention, and performance management
• Sound knowledge of data governance, data protection and GDPR

If you don’t fit the above criteria exactly and are interested in working for us, get in touch anyway – we hire people, not job specs!

❔ What’s in it for you?

• 💷 Salary: £85,000 - £105,000
• 🏠 (Really) flexible and remote working – we don’t mind when, where or how you work; you are trusted to work in the way that suits you best.
• 🧠 Genuine care and support for your health and wellbeing – free therapy sessions, financial education, birthday treats and much more.
• 🚀 Incredible training and learning opportunities – you’ll be surrounded by the best in the business and encouraged to keep growing.
• ✨ Freedom and empowerment to own problems and explore new ideas – we allow our consultants to actually be consultants, not just bodies.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A supportive, friendly team – we work hard and enjoy spending time together, whether it’s in-person at socials or via silly Slack conversations.
• 🌟 An enhanced, competitive benefits package

We are not like many consultancies. We believe our team is greater than the sum of its parts and will therefore avoid placing individuals in isolation on client sites for large periods of time. We maintain a focus on working together to provide the client with better value from a mix of our people across all levels. If you are self-motivated and have a desire to use data to make a tangible difference in our client’s businesses, this could be the role for you.

If you require any support with your application, please contact recruitment@intuitaconsulting.comIf you are self-motivated and have a desire to use data to make a tangible difference in our client’s businesses, this could be the role for you.