Data Engineering and Integration Manager

About the role:

Are you a skilled leader passionate about managing end-to-end data and integration solutions that empower business insight and innovation? At Lincolnshire Co‑op, we’re evolving our data capabilities to unlock smarter decision‑making across all our operations.

We’re looking for a Data Engineering and Integration Manager to oversee the delivery of robust, scalable data pipelines and seamless system integrations. You’ll lead a talented team and collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders to ensure our data infrastructure supports analytics, AI/ML, and reporting needs.

• Lead the delivery of high‑quality data engineering and integration solutions, balancing immediate priorities with long‑term strategic goals and acting as the link between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes and modern architectures (Data Warehouse, Lakehouse), ensuring reliable data ingestion, flow and interoperability across systems and platforms.
• Oversee integration activities, managing tools and suppliers to standardise, automate and optimise data exchange, while ensuring data governance, quality, and compliance.
• Support data‑driven initiatives, enabling AI/ML, analytics and reporting through a robust data infrastructure aligned with the Business Intelligence strategy.
• Lead and develop the team, managing budgets and supplier performance and keeping ahead of evolving technologies, tools and best practices in data engineering and integration.

For a full outline of this exciting role, please see the attached job description.

You bring extensive experience in data engineering leadership and a strong technical background
, combined with a proven track record of aligning data initiatives with business priorities
. You’ll have a solid academic or professional foundation in Computer Science, Data Engineering or Information Systems, alongside demonstrable expertise working with major cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.

In this role, you’ll draw upon your deep knowledge of data warehousing, data lakes and Lakehouse architectures
, as well as your experience designing and deploying ETL/ELT pipelines
, Dev Ops practices and real‑time streaming technologies
. You should also be comfortable working with integration methods (APIs),
data services and ensuring seamless system interoperability
.

• Strong understanding of data governance, GDPR compliance and metadata management
• Experience managing supplier performance and third‑party IT contracts
• Proven project and delivery management skills using Agile and/or Waterfall approaches

To be successful, you’ll be an excellent communicator and stakeholder manager
, capable of engaging and influencing at all levels. You’ll combine strategic thinking with strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
, enabling you to drive best practice in data engineering and integration across the organisation.

If you’re ready to lead a critical function that drives data excellence and integration innovation
, we’d love to hear from you.

• 34 days annual leave pro‑rata (including bank holidays), rising to 39 days after 5 years' service
• Pension scheme (with up to 12% employer contributions)
• Generous colleague discount rates across our family of businesses
• Annual discretionary colleague bonus to reward you for your hard work, based on the achievement of your objectives
• Private medical insurance underwritten by BUPA

We are an “Investors in People – Platinum” employer, meaning that we have been recognised as one of the country’s top employers, offering progression opportunities to all our colleagues. As your confidence grows, you’ll have the opportunity to build the skills necessary to further progress your career and help to open up future opportunities. Whether you’re thinking of a future with us or looking to develop your skills with a community‑focused business, we’ll work together with you to shape your career for the better.

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