# Head of Data Engineering

**Company**: LexisNexis Risk Solutions
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a strategic technology leader who is passionate about modernising data platforms, leading high-performing teams, and delivering impactful data solutions at scale.

As Head of Data Engineering, you will provide leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the UK&I Data Engineering team. You will play a key role in driving cloud modernisation, strengthening governance and security practices, accelerating AI adoption, and ensuring the successful delivery of business-critical data products that support business growth and customer outcomes.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead and support data engineers, ensuring clear priorities and consistent delivery

- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation

- Support career development, succession planning, talent acquisition, and workforce planning

- Foster knowledge sharing and engineering excellence practices across US and UK teams

- Oversee delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities

- Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives leveraging Azure, Databricks, cloud-native services, and modern data architectures

- Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements

- Partner with Product, Analytics, Architecture, Operations, and Business Leaders to deliver scalable technical solutions

**Requirements**

- Experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Platforms, or related technology disciplines

- Leadership experience managing technical teams

- Strong expertise in modern data engineering practices, data architecture, and large-scale data platforms

- Experience delivering cloud-based solutions, preferably using Azure technologies

- Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, security, compliance, and risk management requirements

- Experience leading strategic initiatives and complex cross-functional programs

- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organisational leadership skills

- Demonstrated ability to balance delivery execution with long-term technology strategy

**Benefits**

We are delighted to offer country-specific benefits. Please click [here](link) to access benefits specific to your location.

## Skills

### Required
- Data Engineering
- Analytics Engineering
- Data Platforms
- Cloud Migration
- Azure
- Databricks
- Data Governance
- Security
- Compliance
- Risk Management

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