Data Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Leadership & People Management
• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of data engineers, focusing on career growth, learning, and engagement.
• Take ownership of people management, including development plans, performance reviews, and progression pathways.
• Partner with the Principal Data Engineer to balance technical depth with delivery accountability, ensuring the team excels in both.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and innovation within the data engineering function.
• Technical Delivery & Execution
• Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, high-quality data pipelines on AWS and Snowflake.
• Collaborate with the Principal Data Engineer on technical architecture and standards, ensuring solutions are future-proof and cost-efficient.
• Drive adoption of best practices in data engineering, CI/CD, and agile delivery.
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, and data quality requirements.
• Continuously optimize data flows to support business analytics, personalization, and advanced data products.
• Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Engagement
• Work with Product Owners, Data Governance, and Analytics teams to align engineering work to strategic data goals.
• Communicate progress and solutions effectively to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Represent data engineering in cross-functional forums, advocating for modern, reliable, and business-enabling data solutions.
• Contribute to shaping the Data & Analytics roadmap, ensuring scalability for future growth.
• Knowledge, skills and experience required
• Leadership & People Development
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing data engineering teams, ideally across hybrid or distributed environments.
• Strong focus on people management - setting clear expectations, supporting individual growth, and ensuring structured career progression.
• Ability to foster a culture of learning, inclusion, and psychological safety, empowering engineers to innovate and take ownership.
• Skilled in coaching engineers of varying experience levels, providing both technical mentorship and constructive feedback.
• Experience partnering with a Principal Data Engineer or equivalent to maintain balance between technical excellence and delivery execution.
• Technical Expertise
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture patterns - Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, and Data Mesh.
• Proven experience designing and delivering cloud data platforms (preferably AWS and Snowflake).
• Expertise in ETL/ELT development, orchestration, and data automation using tools such as AWS Glue, Step Functions, Airflow, or dbt.
• Strong programming proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience in testing, optimisation, and CI/CD integration.
• Experience with streaming and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis).
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and data observability best practices.
• Strong background in data modelling (dimensional, canonical, and semantic models) to support analytical and operational use cases.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and privacy principles, including GDPR compliance, data lineage, and access controls.
• Delivery & Execution
• Demonstrated success delivering data solutions using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Skilled at balancing speed, quality, and cost, with awareness of cloud resource efficiency and cost management.
• Experienced in leading both strategic transformation projects (platform migrations, architecture redesigns) and incremental delivery improvements (pipeline tuning, automation).
• Confident in aligning technical delivery with business needs and collaborating closely with Product, Analytics, and Governance teams.
• Strategic & Communication Skills
• Excellent communicator - able to explain complex technical solutions in clear, accessible language.
• Strong influencing skills to drive adoption of modern data practices and data-driven decision-making across the business.
• Strategic thinker who connects engineering initiatives with business value, supporting innovation and scalability.
• High accountability, resilience, and adaptability in a fast-moving environment.
• About us: Our story
• The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.
• We have more than 25 years' experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.
• We have been bringing innov

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