Lead Informatica Developer
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Salary
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£54,700
Going rate
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This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2134 (85% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and RS Group Plc is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2132 (IT managers, If managing people or budgets is the main job) or SOC 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers, If data architecture/design dominates over development). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Most likely code | £38,300 | £43,700 | £49,200 | £54,700 |
2132 IT managers Also possible | £38,500 | £44,000 | £49,500 | £55,000 |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Also possible | £38,400 | £43,900 | £49,400 | £54,900 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Lead Informatica Developer
Location: Remote
Permanent
RS Group is looking for a Lead Informatica Developer to join our team on a permanent basis. This is a key role supporting the development and evolution of our global Customer Data Master (CDM) platform — a critical component in delivering our wider customer and data strategy.
Reporting to the Informatica Developer Manager, you’ll play a central role in building, enhancing, and maintaining our CDM environment across production, development, and test. The platform is built on Informatica Intelligent Data Cloud, including Customer 360, Business 360, Data Quality, Cloud Data Integration (CDI), Cloud Application Integration (CAI), and Administrator.
This is an opportunity to work on a high-impact, enterprise-scale data platform, helping to shape how customer data is structured, governed, and used across the organisation to drive better insights and decision-making.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll take a lead role in the design, development, and continuous improvement of the CDM platform, including:
- Developing and maintaining the Customer Data Master within Informatica Customer 360
- Designing and evolving data models, including entities, attributes, hierarchies, and mappings
- Building, testing, and deploying enhancements to data structures and integrations
- Managing and optimising data flows (ingress and egress), ensuring scalability and performance
- Designing integration processes (CDI/API) using best practices across platforms such as SAP, Snowflake, Adobe, Salesforce, and Mulesoft
- Defining and implementing best practices for data quality, match & merge, survivorship, and enrichment
- Developing workflows and integrations across C360 and R360 using CAI and APIs
- Supporting platform configuration, including secure agents, SSO, network setup, and user provisioning
About you
You’re an experienced Informatica developer who enjoys working at the intersection of data, technology, and business impact. You’re comfortable taking ownership of complex data platforms and thrive in environments where you can influence design, improve processes, and deliver high-quality solutions.
You combine strong technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, working effectively with stakeholders, engineers, and business teams. You’re proactive, detail-oriented, and motivated by building scalable, reliable data solutions that enable better decision-making.
What you’ll need
- Hands-on experience with Informatica CDM, ideally the SaaS platform, including Customer 360, Business 360, Reference 360, Data Quality, and Administration
- Proven experience building, configuring, testing, and deploying Informatica C360 solutions
- Strong experience designing and developing data integrations (CDI), including both ingestion and egress patterns
- Strong experience designing and developing API using Informatica CAI.
- Solid SQL skills and a strong understanding of data modelling and relational databases
- Experience working with modern data ecosystems and integrations (e.g. SAP, Snowflake, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Adobe)
- Familiarity with REST APIs and integration design patterns
- Experience working in Agile environments, with the ability to organise and manage delivery across different methodologies
The extras you’ll get:
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:
- Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation
- Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome
- Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
- Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery, and gender confirmation surgery
- Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.
We are RS
At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.
We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.
We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible, and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.
Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Programmers and software development professionals (SOC 2134) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~399k in sample- Middle half £42,536–76,752
- Median £56,784
- Going rate £54,700
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,300–49,200
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. RS Group Plc holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.