Data Platform Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• As a Data Platform Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of our data ecosystem, guiding a high-performing engineering squad to architect and maintain a robust platform that empowers every business unit to effectively ingest, manage, and leverage data for varied strategic requirements.
• Day-to-day, you'll be:
• Leading, mentoring and growing a high-performing team of data engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership
• Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our data platform, focusing on self-service, reliability, scalability, security, and user experience
• Critically evaluating architectural proposals and technical designs from the team, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, platform vision, architecture and security
• Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for self-service platform engineering, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs
• Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Analytics, Operations and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that enables all groups to easily manage data within defined standards
• Driving projects from inception to delivery, taking into consideration the needs of your customers whilst fitting into the wider Platform strategy
• Engaging with clients and vendors on integration patterns and implementation
• The skills you'll need
• You'll also have:
• A strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), event streaming (Kafka), and data-mesh tooling
• Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), data streaming platforms, data transformation, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and self-service platform design
• A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems in a regulated environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences internal and external
• Hours
• 35
• Job Posting Closing Date:
• 26/06/2026
• Ways of Working:Remote First

Benefits

Additional Information

Join us as an Engineering Manager Identifying and solve engineering-wide challenges as they appear We'll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact Investing in NatWest Boxed's overall platform architecture Ensuring the security of our systems and working practice

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