Help shape the future of data at Southern Housing

Are you an experienced Lead Database & ETL Developer ready to take ownership of data solutions that make a real impact? At Southern Housing, we’re looking for a talented specialist to join our Technology team and play a leading role in strengthening and evolving our data estate.

This is an exciting opportunity to help drive high-quality data management across the organisation — designing, developing and optimising source data systems, supporting robust data warehouses, and championing best practice throughout our technology environment. Working collaboratively with our wider data community, you’ll help ensure consistency, quality and innovation in the way we manage and use data.

If you’re passionate about data, enjoy solving complex challenges, and want to be part of an organisation making a difference to people and communities, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of two days per week in the office.

What you’ll need

• Experience with various Data Management architectures like Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Hub and the supporting processes like Data Integration, Governance, Metadata Management
• Experience in working with large, heterogeneous datasets in building and optimizing data pipelines, pipeline architectures and integrated datasets using traditional data integration technologies.
• Designing source data and data management principles.
• Demonstrated success in working with both IT and business while integrating analytics and data science output into business processes and workflows.
• Understanding of and experience with various software development lifecycle methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Iterative, Agile).
• SQL Server and Visual Studio Experience with translating business requirements into system functional and non-functional requirements
• Experience with popular database programming languages including SQL, PL/SQL, possibly extending to NoSQL/Hadoop oriented, and nonrelational databases.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.

Closing date Sunday 14th June 2026 at 23:59

Shortlisting: W/c 15th June 2026

Interviews: W/c 22nd June 2026

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About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own!We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people’s lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan
• Eyecare & dental
• Birthday leave
• Retailers discounts
• Cycle to work
• Buy & sell annual leave
• Season ticket loan
• In-house academy & career development
• Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it’s about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We’re all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.

Work Location: In person