Senior Technical Lead - Data Platforms

UCL is a world-leading teaching and research university, often ranked in the top ten in the world with an annual turnover of well over £1 billion. Part of UCL's vision is to take on the hardest global challenges.

The Information Services Division (ISD) is the primary provider of IT services to UCL. We support and enhance learning, teaching, research and administrative processes by providing information- and technology-related services to over 50,000 staff and students of UCL and associated institutions.

About the role

The Senior Technical Lead is a key role at UCL which ensures the continual build of sustainable internal capability, which delivers high quality enterprise-scale data services. This role also directly enables UCL's Data Strategy, democratisation of data, AI innovation, and compliance with regulatory requirements including HESA, UKVI, TEF, OfS and financial reporting.

You will be required to provide advanced technical leadership for architecting, building and scaling UCL's enterprise data platform. This includes modern data engineering, cloud data lakehouse development, distributed compute, data modelling, metadata/lineage services, self-service analytics enablement, and AI-driven data automation.

About you

To be considered for this exciting and challenging role, the candidate will be required to have strong mix of the following technical skills and experience:

• Extensive expertise in modern cloud data platforms (Azure preferred).
• Strong experience designing and building enterprise-grade Data Lakes / Lake houses, ETL/ELT, streaming, and distributed compute.
• Expertise in SQL, Python, data modelling, metadata management, data cataloguing and lineage.
• Strong understanding of governance, security, compliance and data quality frameworks.
• Ability to lead technical delivery in Agile and hybrid environments.
• Strong communication skills to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and mentor technical teams, set engineering standards and influence direction.
• Experience with ITIL processes and release/change management.
• Experience building or scaling data platforms that support enterprise reporting, regulatory submissions and advanced analytics/AI.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme:
  Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance Visit

to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wantour community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to beinga place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to beunderrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+people, and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women