Data Integration Manager

OVO Energy ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Location: Bristol / London The OVO Group's mission is to drive progress towards net zero carbon living. We're a collection of companies with a single vision: to power human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone. The climate crisis is humanity's greatest challenge and the OVO Group organisations are all working together to lower our collective carbon emissions to zero. Would you be interested in joining us to help achieve this? Where in the world of OVO will I be working? In January 2020 we announced the acquisition of SSE Retail services, which significantly expanded the number of customers to work with to lower carbon emissions. To help millions of customers receive simpler, cleaner and greener energy, we will migrate the SSE Retail customer base, workforce and operations onto OVO platforms. We have set up integration workstreams to manage these activities, focussing on synergies that will provide a simple, cost effective service to customers. What will I be doing? As we migrate customers to the OVO platforms, there are multiple data integration use cases. Wherever possible we will reduce complexity and effort, and enhance the overall information space available, by ensuring we reduce duplication of data, process and effort, and divergence of logic and business rules. This will be in line with OVO's overall data strategy, and ideally each step will be taken with the target OVO data platform in mind. It will be your job to ensure opportunities for alignment around data are known and communicated effectively, to ensure resource requirements are understood and to prioritise the efforts for the data teams based on service cost and use case value. Key Responsibilities * Understand the full picture of SSE data systems landscape and the use cases and requirements for integrations * Clear prioritisation of use cases to deliver value early and regularly * Ensuring short and medium term data integrations are informed by OVO's kafka-first data strategy, and inform how this evolves for the combined business * Put a plan in place for data tooling for other use cases * Work with business and technical stakeholders on OVO and SSE teams to develop approaches and architectures to deliver those use cases * Plan and deliver on successful rationalisation of data & analytics architectures * Ensure DPO engagement with integration strategy and alignment of architectural choices with GDPR regulations * Appropriate evolution of data warehousing as customers migrate and Orion features develop Do I have what it takes? Essential skills and experience: * Demonstrable an in depth experience of building a modern data capability for use by varied stakeholders in a large enterprise * Experience of complex data integrations and migrations, ideally incremental / cohort based migrations * Ability to explain a describe complex technical concepts simply to business and technical stakeholders at all levels * Good knowledge of cloud solutions, e.g. GCP, AWS * Experience working with streaming technologies e.g. Kafka, Spark, Pub/Sub and microservices based architectures * Experience working with monolithic based architectures with batch processes * Approaches projects to maximise learning through iteration, ideally experience working with agile teams * Management of a diverse set of stakeholders, prioritising and resolving competing requests OVO believes in fueling human progress with clean and abundant energy for all. We were set up to always find a better way and challenge the status quo. From us you'll get... * A competitive salary * Discretionary performance based bonus (*) * 4% of your salary to spend on flexible lifestyle benefits (*) * 5% matched employer contribution to your pension * 25 days holiday + 1 day off for your birthday * Free breakfast * Onsite gym (*) Please note that certain benefits kick-in once you have passed probation which can be up to 6 months after your start date. Learn more about working in theOVO family of companieson ourcareers pageandGlassdoor.We were delighted to be awardeduSwitch's 2019 Supplier of the Yearand receive a Top Employers certificate in 2018, 2019 and2020! Diverse teams are the best teams We're keen to meet people with varied backgrounds: the more inclusive we are the better our work will be. We want to build a team which represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, and we decide employment on the basis of merit and potential. We understand some people may not apply to jobs unless they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have much of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure... we'd love to hear from you.