Lead - Data Integration Services

£60,000 – £65,000 12 Months Fixed Term 30 Days 4 Days Christmas Break 8 Bank Holidays Excellent Pension Scheme Hybrid Working – 2 Days Office Ample Safe & Close Parking Close to M1, M6, M40, M42, A45, A46 Excellent Public Transport Links Bus & Rail Lead – Data Integration Services Supporting a key department within a leading higher education organisation, we are seeking an experienced leader / manager of Data Integration and Solutions Architecture to oversee the daily functions of a Data Integration Services Team. Primary Duties: To design and deliver a robust, performant, and auditable Data Integration Service Implement a data integration service based on approved department technologies. Specify governance and best practice methodologies. Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team. Manage the development and training of staff in the team, ensuring that their skills remain current and develop as the needs of the role change. Provide technical leadership to the team, coaching members when needed. Ensure that the team works in accordance with the departments ITIL processes including change, incident, service request and problem management. Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs and opportunities for improvement. Act as the contact point for Product and Delivery Managers who are customers of the Data Integration Service. Act as the Technical Authority for development undertaken on the data integration platform. Provide leadership to, and management of the Data Integration Service Team, ensuring that the team and third parties perform to a good level, work to accepted quality standards, to common design patterns and testing practices and are knowledgeable of current relevant legislation. Ensure that working practices enable third parties to be incorporated in the team, providing surge capacity to match changes in demand. Lead, develop and maintain a well governed data integration service that follows best practice methodologies for departments integration platform, ensuring its services are scalable, performant and based on an accurate, complete and well-structured catalogue of integrations that facilitates change management, architecture planning functions, cost optimisation and evidence-based assurance of legal compliance obligations. Collaborate with other relevant teams including IT Security and Enterprise Architecture; and third-party suppliers. Monitor and manage the performance of the Data Integration Service, identifying suitable KPIs to evidence performance and opportunities for improvement such as robustness of integration, speed to develop. Person Specification A good honours degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience. Substantial experience of both working in and leading a development team, this is likely to have been gained over a substantial career in professional IT roles. Experience of evaluating solution options for technical feasibility and business benefits. Team and/or service management experience and excellent leadership, team working and mentoring skills. Experience of budget management and developing cost models as part of the evaluation of alternative options. A thorough understanding legislation relevant to the processing of data both within and external to a complex organisation. A methodical and clear approach to setting team priorities; aligning them with service priorities gathered from customers and other key stakeholders. A good understanding of the use of data and metrics led service improvement. Experience of providing technical leadership on major IT projects. In-depth technical knowledge, to the level of principal expert, in developing data integration services. The ability to advocate customer service and the ability to empathise strongly with university members, a customer focused approach to service delivery. Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with people at all levels. Experience of working in an ITIL managed environment. Good exposure of API Management, Logic App's, Azure Integration Services Experience of working in a complex HE environment - Desirable WEG Tech is acting as an internal Recruitment Agency for this vacancy