Data Integration Technical Lead; FTC

Overview

Have the digital world at your feet

As a Data Integration Technical Lead at the FA, you will lead the data integration engineers within your Pod (Team/Value stream). This is a technical leadership and developer role responsible for the end-to-end development of a suite of FA applications, primarily within a Microsoft-based technology stack. You will be the central point for all integration development activities, including development, establishing coding standards, implementing quality assurance processes, and overseeing the work of developers.

The ideal candidate will wear multiple hats—architect, delivery manager, data integration engineer, quality assurance, mentor, problem solver, and collaborative team member—ensuring technical excellence and alignment with business goals.

The role is a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract based at Wembley Stadium.

What will you be doing?

• Collaborate with solution architects, application architects and data engineers to develop solutions meeting delivery goals
• Identify and capture work that needs to be done, including dependencies external to the team
• Onboard new team members and manage the impact of leavers
• Monitor team health and psychological safety; ensure contributors are growing
• Lead and develop a high-performing, cross-functional team with mentoring and coaching
• Establish and champion team norms and engineering standards
• Contribute to technical discussions and architecture decisions to guide quality and scalability
• Support agile delivery practices and continuous improvement
• Enable robust Dev Ops practices, including CI/CD pipeline management and Kubernetes deployments
• Promote a data-driven culture by defining and tracking key performance and delivery metrics
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement, adapting processes to enhance efficiency
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align on priorities, maintain a clear technical roadmap, and ensure transparency
• Monitor changes to existing code to ensure quality and compliance with FA development standards
• Optimise the developer experience to improve productivity
• Ensure production services are monitored and observed to spot issues early
• Provide constructive feedback to accelerate engineers’ development
• Assess team capability and skill sets, identifying training and development needs
• Assist Product Owners to break down requirements into programming tasks and provide estimates
• Communicate delivery progress and impact of changes to the Delivery Manager
• Ensure product quality is built into the development lifecycle, not left to QA
• Encourage agile practices, TDD, BDD, and paired programming
• Ensure user stories flow efficiently and remove impediments
• Keep abreast of technology developments and engage with developer communities
• Execute additional tasks to meet FA priorities
• Comply with all policies to maintain health and safety standards

What are we looking for?

Essential for the role

Technical & Experience

• Development experience using C# (.NET Core), ASP.NET, JavaScript, T-SQL
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining MS SQL Server databases with change tracking / CDC
• Message-based integration – Azure Service Bus
• Working with Azure Data Factory
• Experience with Dependency Injection & IoC frameworks
• Experience with ORM Frameworks:
  Entity Framework, Dapper
• Experience in building and consuming web services using micro-services architecture with REST APIs
• Experience in keeping multiple applications in sync – real time/batch processing
• Experience leading teams of technical specialists through to successful delivery
• Experience providing technical leadership and oversight with offshore/third-party delivery teams
• Experience with unit testing, TDD and BDD
• Experience with SAST and SCA tools (e.g., Sonar)
• Experience with design and development of multi-tier architectures
• Knowledge of common software design patterns
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum

Delivery Planning

• Experience with agile estimating techniques for large initiatives to user stories
• Experience working with delivery management and product disciplines to produce quarterly plans and longer-term roadmaps

Beneficial to have

• Technical educational background
• Microsoft Software Development Certifications
• Expe…