Data Engineering Delivery & Support Lead
Skills
About the role
Who We Are
Join Network Rail - Where People and Connections Matter
At Network Rail, we're dedicated to keeping passengers and freight moving safely and efficiently across the country. When you join us, you're not just part of a team - you're part of something that matters to millions. We believe that our people are at the heart of what we do, and every role plays a vital part in building a better, more connected railway. Click here to learn more.
We're committed to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace that reflects the communities we serve. To discover more about our ED&I commitments click here. We value flexibility and understand the importance of a healthy work-life balance. As a Disability Confident Leader, we'll do everything we can to accommodate any needs throughout the recruitment process. You can visit Evenbreaks Career Hive for advice on accessibility support.
If you're ready to make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you!
Some of our great benefits:
We offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to support our employees during significant life moments
Flexible/hybrid working arrangements considered
Generous annual leave up to 28 days plus statutory days (role dependant), with the option to buy/sell days
Discounts at selected stations with your Network Rail pass
Defined benefit pension scheme
75% off leisure train tickets for you and your dependents (subject to T&Cs)
Interest-free travel loan for train and car park season tickets
Volunteer leave to make a positive impact
Plus.
Vacancy Details
Duration: Permanent
Location: The Quadrant, Milton Keynes
Band & Salary: Band 2B,£71,163 - £86,801
About the role
About the Digital and Data Function:
The Digital & Data Function brings together Network Rail's in-house digital and data capabilities into a single, dedicated function. Its purpose is to make it easier for colleagues across the organisation to access trusted digital and data services, helping Network Rail use information more effectively to support safe, efficient and informed decision-making.
The function has been created to provide a more consistent and joined-up experience for teams requiring digital products, data platforms, analytics, automation and data provision. By aligning these capabilities in one place, the Digital & Data Function supports clearer accountability, reduced duplication, stronger governance and faster delivery of value to the business.
Within the function, the Data Delivery area provides specialist capability in data provision, management, platform support, visualisation, analytics and advanced data services. It helps colleagues find, access, understand and use robust data so they can improve operational performance, identify efficiencies and make better evidence-based decisions.
The Data Engineering Delivery & Support Lead plays a key role in enabling this ambition by leading the delivery, operation and continual improvement of Network Rail's data engineering capability. The role ensures that data platforms, pipelines and integration services are secure, reliable, scalable and aligned to business priorities, supporting both current operational needs and future transformation.
Develop the data engineering strategic architecture and warehousing strategy for enterprise data, so that core data sources are consistently defined, structured and accessible for self-service.
Implement data engineering overall technical and strategic engagement with IT Services, including the active management of interdependencies to facilitate delivery of the data engineering pipeline.
Review, constructively challenge and adjust the data engineering service, influencing the wider stakeholder group, so the service aligns with wider Network Rail enterprise data requirements, strategies and changes that may come with the transition to Great British Railways.
Prioritise the technical deliverables in the data engineering Service Pipeline, in accordance with the data engineering strategy and stakeholder requirements, so they are delivered in line with the strategy and stakeholder requirements.
Define the architectural platforms and technical patterns to be exploited by the data engineering Service, and own the technical architecture including management of changes, to continuously improve the service and deliver best practice data products.
Provide technical oversight and own the approval of data engineering related designs and deliverables across Network Rail, to create consistency and alignment across the organisation.
Lead, manage and embed agile delivery methodologies, including daily / weekly scrums and retro ceremonies supporting the Head of Data in driving a more efficient, customer-focused culture and service offering.
Develop the funding strategy and cost management mechanisms of technical deliverables owned by the data engineering, so that dashboards, data models and capabilities can be progressed across the organisation.
Champion security and governance, so that the data engineering team follows Network Rail guidelines while delivering data products, services, and projects, so that the service remains compliant with governance policies.
Your experience and skills
Meet the essential criteria/ Apply today to join our team!
Essential
Proven ability to manage, influence and develop relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders at Director level in complex environments
Demonstrably strong leadership skills with the ability to lead teams through transformation
Proven successful senior management experience in a matrix and/or heavily governed organisation
Proven ability to successfully manage a team using delivery methodologies such as Agile (Safe / Scrum)
Proven experience of enterprise strategy development and execution
Strong track record of architecting high-quality data products and services and ability to demonstrate the difference they have made in transforming an organisation
Proven experience of developing product roadmaps to set the future strategic direction of BI technologies
Proven experience of managing the delivery of solutions across a hybrid cloud and on-premise landscape
Essential demonstrable experience of MuleSoft, including the design, development, delivery and support of API-led integration services across complex enterprise data environments.
Strong understanding of Data Engineering and Data Science Skills and platforms including: ETL; SQL; Relational / Graph / NoSQL Databases; Data solutions within Cloud platforms (primarily Azure); Microservice / APIs providing access to and from data sources; Streaming services; MPP and OLAP Databases e.g., Snowflake, Synapse etc; Programming languages and statistical software to access and interpret data, e.g., python, scala, spark"
Extensive demonstrable experience in Data Visualisation including visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Oracle OBIEE or Essbase
Desirable
Member of a relevant professional body with chartered status (e.g., the Chartered Institute for IT)
Experience of enterprise business systems including HR, Procurement and Payroll systems
Experience of working within the Rail Industry
Microsoft Azure Certifications: AZURE Data Engineer Associate
Additional Information...
Contact: mark.powell4@networkrail.co.uk If you have any questions or reasonable adjustments.
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Key Information
Vacancy Details
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full Time
Salary:
£71,163 - £86,801
Location:
The Quadrant:MK, Milton Keynes
Geographical Area:
South East England (Not inside M25)
Closing Date:
26-JUL-2026
Job Category:
Digital Data and Technology
Function:
Route Services
Asset:
DDaT Digital & Data Services
Organisation:
SV Data (807640) G1
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