Data Team Lead – Regulatory Reporting
Location: Manchester or Stoke-on-Trent (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)
Type: Full-time | Permanent
About the Role
We are seeking a Data Team Lead to take ownership of a team delivering regulatory reporting solutions within a high-scale, highly regulated environment.
This role is primarily focused on leadership, delivery oversight, and stakeholder engagement rather than hands-on development. You will be responsible for ensuring the team delivers high-quality solutions that meet strict regulatory requirements while maintaining strong standards of design, performance, and reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a cross-functional, geographically distributed data team
- Own the end-to-end delivery of regulatory reporting solutions
- Ensure outputs meet governance standards and regulatory requirements
- Act as the primary interface between technology, finance, and compliance stakeholders
- Drive team performance through mentoring, coaching, and development
- Manage risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines
- Identify and implement improvements to processes, ways of working, and delivery efficiency
- Provide regular updates to leadership and escalate risks where necessary
Requirements
Leadership and Delivery
- Proven experience leading and developing data or engineering teams
- Strong track record of owning delivery in fast-paced environments
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to prioritise effectively and manage competing demands
Technical Understanding
- Strong understanding of GCP and BigQuery environments
- Solid knowledge of SQL and commercial database development
- Awareness of cloud-based architectures and data/reporting systems
(This is not a hands-on role, but requires sufficient technical depth to guide teams and review solutions.)
Desirable Experience
- Experience within regulated environments such as gambling, finance, or similar
- Exposure to high-throughput or large-scale data platforms
- Familiarity with API integrations (REST or SOAP)
- Experience supporting the use of AI tools within delivery teams
Why Join
- Lead delivery of business-critical regulatory systems
- Work within a large-scale, performance-driven environment
- Play a key role in shaping team delivery and best practices
- Hybrid working model (2 days onsite per week) with strong long-term career progression
Apply
If you are a leadership-focused data professional who enjoys driving delivery and improving team performance in complex environments, we would like to hear from you.