DataOps Lead

Data Operations Manager – Contract Role

Outside IR35 | £600-650/day | London | Hybrid | Initial 6 Months

We’re supporting a global financial services client in building a brand‑new Data Operations function to support their AWS-based data platform. With the team currently scaling, this role will be pivotal in shaping how data quality, SLAs, monitoring, and operational excellence are delivered across their platform.

This is a hands‑on leadership position where you’ll build processes, own data reliability, and eventually grow a globally distributed team (UK, India, US). The environment is fast-paced, high-impact, and ideal for someone that is still hands on but wants to step up into a strategic operational leadership role.

Key Responsibilities

Oversee data quality, validation, SLA monitoring, and data reconciliation processes.
Own 1st–2nd line investigations into data issues (late/missing feeds, schema changes, accuracy checks).
Develop operational processes, incident playbooks, runbooks, and workflow improvements.
Work closely with upstream vendors and downstream engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders.
Establish monitoring and alerting practices (Grafana) and improve operational reliability (MTTD/MTTR).
Drive automation, process optimisation, and standardisation across the data lifecycle.
Hire, manage, and coordinate offshore team members in India and the US as the function scales.
Collaborate with the Head of Data, Data Architects, and Engineering leads globally.

Ideal Candidate

Experience running or scaling operational data functions.
Strong understanding of data pipelines, ingestion, transformations, and quality frameworks.
Confident working directly with data (validation, reconciliation, tracing issues, platform behaviour).
Excellent communicator capable of interfacing with technical and business stakeholders globally.
Self-starter who enjoys building capability from the ground up and improving process maturity.
Ambitious candidate seeking a clear pathway to future leadership and team ownership.

Tech Stack Required:

AWS (S3, Athena, Iceberg)
DBT
Grafana (monitoring/observability)
Scripting in Python

If you are interested please apply below!

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