Engineering Manager leading full - stack engineering teams to build and scale Virgin Red's platform. Shaping technical direction and fostering a high - performing inclusive environment.
About the role
- Data Engineering Manager leading the data engineering team at Buyagift & Red Letter Days. Overseeing data strategy, architecture, and team management in a hybrid role.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers working on our core data platform.
- Set technical direction and strategy across data infrastructure, data architecture, and data modelling, ensuring we build the right solutions in the right way.
- Own and evolve our data models and data architecture, ensuring they are scalable, well-governed, and aligned with business needs.
- Build and maintain scalable, resilient data pipelines and systems, including an in-house event ingestion platform.
- Define best practices for analytics engineering, data modelling, and schema design to support reliable reporting and downstream use cases.
- Take ownership of data code, underlying infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.
- Collaborate closely with data insights and analytics teams to develop and refine ML-driven analytics pipelines.
- Work with stakeholders across the business to understand data requirements and translate them into reliable, accessible data solutions.
- Ensure data quality, governance, security, and GDPR compliance across the data platform.
- Support and grow engineers through mentoring, clear objectives, and our engineering growth framework.
Requirements
- You have experience mentoring and developing engineers, and working closely with non-technical stakeholders.
- You’re either an experienced manager or ready to take the next step into a people leadership role.
- You enjoy taking ownership end-to-end, from data models and architecture through to pipelines, infrastructure, and production support.
- You’re passionate about data and apply best practices to analytics engineering, data modelling, and platform design.
- You have experience building and maintaining modern data platforms, ideally using Snowflake.
- You’ve worked with modern ETL tooling and understand how to build reliable, automated data flows.
- You’re curious about the business context behind the data and enjoy collaborating to solve real problems.
Benefits
- 💸 Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus generous pension plans, staff discounts, and share schemes.
- 💆🏾♀️ Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK), dental, life insurance, mental health support, and dog-friendly offices.
- 🏖️ Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (unless specified otherwise, 2 days a week in the office), and opportunities for international working.
- 📈 Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching, and development programs.
- 🤝 Recognition & Giving Back: Regular awards, charity support, length of service awards, and volunteering days.
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