Data Engineering Manager (Data Platform)

Overview

As Data Platform Engineering Manager, you lead a data platform team during a pivotal Snowflake migration, shaping how we deliver data-enabled capabilities across the business. You partner with senior engineers to translate strategy into actionable delivery, while owning team health and career growth. You’ll foster a collaborative, product-minded culture that enables domain teams to move fast with safe, scalable tooling. This role sits in a high-performance, mission-driven environment that values ownership and impact.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible-first benefit allowance
• private medical and dental
• life assurance and financial coaching
• annual learning allowance
• electric car and cycle-to-work schemes
• season ticket loans

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data platform engineers, fostering collaboration and inclusion
• Champion a product mindset for internal tooling to empower domains with speed and safety
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and career development
• Plan, execute, and deliver projects on the data platform roadmap with quality outcomes
• Manage backlog, prioritisation, and track platform health KPIs
• Build relationships with technical and business stakeholders and translate needs into requirements
• Communicate roadmap, progress, challenges, and successes to technical and non-technical audiences
• Invest in engineers’ development through coaching, growth plans, and knowledge-sharing

Key requirements

• Proven experience leading high-performing data engineering teams in a product-driven environment
• Strong mentoring track record and commitment to technical excellence and growth
• Experience delivering projects with planning, prioritisation, and execution
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Ability to architect AI solutions and automated systems aligned with long-term mission
• Act as a technical bridge to mentor across the company for advanced AI/system creation
• Experience shaping data platform strategy and driving technical innovation
• Focus on platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost optimization
• Experience running a platform team that serves internal customers with self-service and developer experience

• leadership
• mentoring
• collaboration
• Snowflake
• data mesh / lakehouse concepts
• dbt

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