Head of Data Engineering and Platform

Head of Data Engineering and Platform

Application closing date: 16/02/25 at 23:59

Location: Birmingham, Liverpool or Newcastle

A bit about the role…

As the Head of Data Engineering and Data Platform, you will lead the design, development, and management of our cloud-based data environment, ensuring it meets the organisation's current and future needs. You will drive the growth and evolution of the Platform, identifying opportunities to adopt new technologies and enhance capabilities to support the Agency. This is a critical role within the Data & Analytics directorate, where you will oversee the end-to-end engineering of data pipelines, ensuring the efficient ingestion, transformation, and accessibility of trusted data across the agency. Your work will underpin the agency’s data-driven decision-making, enabling advanced analytics, AI, and innovation.

You will provide strategic leadership to the data platform team, driving the adoption of emerging technologies and ensuring that the platform is secure, scalable, and aligned with organisational objectives. As Head of Profession for data engineers, you will ensure that the agency has the right skills, capacity and flexibility to meet its aspirations. By collaborating with data governance, architecture, and analytics teams, you will create a robust, well-structured data ecosystem that supports efficient data operations and enhances user experience. In this role, you will balance strategic oversight with practical delivery, ensuring delivery of a reliable, high-performing data platform.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of data engineering at Homes England. Through your leadership, the agency will develop cutting-edge capabilities to streamline operations, support innovation, and deliver measurable value. You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation, ensuring the data platform is aligned with business priorities and contributes directly to the agency’s mission in housing and regeneration.

A bit about you…

You are a visionary leader with a proven track record in designing and managing cloud-based data platforms at an enterprise level. With significant experience in data engineering and a deep understanding of data management principles, you are adept at translating complex technical concepts into strategies that support organisational goals. Your hands-on approach, paired with a strategic mindset, ensures the delivery of impactful solutions that drive measurable results.

As an experienced leader, you excel at building and leading high-performing teams, fostering an environment of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. You have strong interpersonal and communication skills, enabling you to engage effectively with stakeholders across the organisation, aligning data initiatives with business needs, and advocating for a data-driven culture. Your ability to identify and adopt emerging technologies further demonstrates your commitment to advancing the organisation’s data capabilities.

Adaptable and flexible, you thrive in a fast-paced environment and view challenges as opportunities for growth. With a focus on operational excellence, you are dedicated to ensuring that data is accessible, secure, and well-managed. Your leadership and passion for driving positive change make you a key figure in enabling the organisation to achieve its ambitions through the power of data.

Who are we?

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer...

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay controls and pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.