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Director of Engineering, Data Systems

As Director of Engineering, Data Systems, you will be responsible and accountable for Cirium’s ability to ingest, process and store the data that drives both internal and external products and services. Utilizing your management experience, you will lead engineering teams in Southampton, Sutton, and Chennai, with internal and external customers across the globe. This is a tactical and strategic role, reporting to the VP of Technology and sitting on Cirium’s Tech Leadership Team (TLT), that is pivotal to our ability to operate as an efficient and effective Tech organization.

About You:

• You REALLY know Data Engineering . You have spent 5+ years in a technical role on an Engineering team and understand the workload, challenges, and best practices when it comes to data engineering. You can speak knowledgably and with authority to both technical and non-technical audiences about Data Engineering concepts.

• You are an experienced Leader . You have spent 5+ years managing Engineering teams and at least 2 years managing Managers. You know how to coach and mentor engineers in a global workforce across all experience levels and have a strong track record of building and leading high performing teams. You understand how to partner with Business and Tech stakeholders to gain support for complex, technical programs of work.

• You thrive on Continuous Improvement . You have experience delivering complex change programs centered on continuous improvement and tech debt remediation. You have a bias for action and know how to balance BAU work with Project work to ensure that your teams and your estate consistently improves.

• You are an expert in multiple Software Delivery methodologies . You have worked with Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and everything in-between and know which methodology is right for each use-case. You are an enthusiastic evangelist of Agile methodology and have experience coaching teams towards adoption and improvement of Agile processes.

• You are a skilled communicator . You have strong verbal and written communication to convey vision, milestones, and progress to diverse, global teams across all levels of the organization.

• You are a lifelong learner . You have a passion for learning about different approaches to solving problems and you know how to apply your learnings to real-world situations.

  What You'll Do:

• Provide strategic direction for multiple teams of Data Engineers in the UK and India responsible for ingesting, processing, and storing data that drives over $100M of revenue.

• Manage and develop the skills of the managers on the Data Engineering teams. Actively coach and drive the organization towards a high-performance culture.

• Identify opportunities for improvement and standardization of our pipelines and processes and work with Business and Tech stakeholders to deliver initiatives with tangible value.

• Track and report on the progress of projects and initiatives to senior leadership using a data-driven approach.

• Understand in-depth the cost profile and key cost drivers of the Data Systems org and actively seek opportunities to introduce cost efficiencies.

• Work within the Tech Leadership Team (TLT) to deliver cross-functional programs of work designed to consolidate and standardize ways of working, as well as improving our operational efficacy.

About Cirium

Here at Cirium, we thrive at solving interesting problems. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics, providing data that helps understand the past, informs the present, and predicts the future of everything related to the tens of thousands of aircraft flying around the globe. We process huge amounts of data from myriad sources to derive unique insights that keep the aviation industry moving forward. Cloud-native and with R&D and innovation at our core, we are always looking for ways to continuously improve – how do we make it faster, more scalable, more resilient, more secure? There is so much more to come in our innovation journey, come and be a part of it. At Cirium, we do things differently and we look forward to helping you shape your career with us.

Be part of our mission to activate data fluency throughout the industry. With Cirium, you will drive change, work with the industry’s most talented people and advance your career. The sky really is the limit.

Find out more about careers at Cirium, hear from our CEO and learn more about our Values through our careers pages. You can meet the technology leadership team and find out more about the unique products we build, our teamwork and culture, the technology we work with and the customers we innovate for through our technology career pages. At Cirium we passionately believe having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We make it a priority to have an inclusive culture, where you are supported to thrive and encouraged to bring all of yourself to do your best work. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. Hear directly from some of our team why they are choosing to build their careers at Cirium here.

About LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group

Cirium operates under the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group, a portfolio of brands that span multiple industries providing customers with innovative technologies, information-based analytics and decision tools and data services. Our brands provide market-specific solutions that help our customers solve problems, make better decisions, stay compliant, reduce risk, and improve their operations. Serving customers in more than 180 countries, with approximately 8,700 employees, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group is a part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professional and business customers across industries. https://risk.lexisnexis.com/group

At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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