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Engineering Manager - Data Platform
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About the opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Engineering Manager to lead one of our Data Platform teams, currently undergoing a fundamental transformation from a traditional, service-oriented model into a product-oriented platform team focused on automation, scalability, integration, and developer enablement.
As Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating this transition, guiding the team through a challenging but high-potential journey.
You will be responsible for shaping and executing long-term technical and organizational strategies that enable scalable ownership models across the company, allowing teams to safely and autonomously leverage platform capabilities. Your leadership will be key to evolving a team with strong operational foundations into a high-impact, autonomous group of engineers who deliver reliable and compliant platform solutions, empower development teams, and contribute to the broader platform ecosystem. You will have end to end ownership of the team’s scope, including strategy, execution, and organizational design.This role is an opportunity to shape the future of our Data Platform, defining how teams across the company build, operate, and scale data and AI-driven products in a compliant and reliable way.
In this role, you will
Define and drive the strategic evolution of the team towards building a modern, scalable data platform that enables advanced data and AI use cases by default, without requiring bespoke solutions or direct platform team involvement
Enable development teams to safely and autonomously leverage data and platform capabilities through robust tooling, guardrails, and well-defined interfaces.
Establish a long-term roadmap that aligns data platform capabilities with emerging AI use cases, product needs, and regulatory constraints.
Build and grow a high-performing, cross-functional team capable of delivering reliable, scalable, and compliant platform solutions
Shape the team’s c
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)
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