Engineering Manager – Data & Analytics

Arbor Education

Engineering Manager overseeing high-performing data teams delivering AI-first solutions for Arbor Education. Focusing on continuous improvement and collaborative alignment across engineering and product teams.

Posted 6/25/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £100,000 - £110,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Line management of 8-12 engineers, including mentoring, performance management, and career development
Lead the people, delivery and processes of our data teams.
Partner with internal and external customers, in addition to Senior Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers, to align our data capabilities across product and technical roadmaps
End-to-end delivery ownership for programmes across teams, ensuring delivery is aligned to business priorities and quality expectations
Champion, measure and refine your team’s AI-first practices
Partner with Engineering Managers and leadership to refine engineering processes, tooling, and team structures
Work directly with Product and commercial teams to ensure delivery goals are aligned, collaborative, and efficient
Use metrics to identify opportunities for improving delivery velocity, team health, developer experience, and system reliability
Promote and uphold engineering best practices across teams, including documentation, technical standards, and quality assurance
Set clear goals and measurable targets for your teams aligned with engineering and business outcomes
Actively support recruitment and onboarding, including interviewing and process improvement.
Represent engineering in broader organisational contexts, including cross-functional meetings, leadership forums, and internal/external presentations

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven leadership of high-performing engineering teams across multiple levels of experience, including effective performance management
Previous line management and delivery responsibility within a commercially focused data function (warehousing, analytics, integrations, etc).
Outcome focussed with an ability to drive high quality delivery; preferably within AI-first environment (or one transitioning to this model)
Good technical and engineering background, with a solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals
Strong experience working in agile environments using various methodologies
Hands-on experience using and interpreting metrics to guide delivery and team improvements
Great communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and other stakeholders
Comfortable with disagree/commit and advocating for engineering practices
Strong collaborative mindset with a focus on alignment, outcomes, and continuous improvement
Experience managing complex, cross-team programme delivery involving multiple workstreams and dependencies
Bonus Skills
Hands-on experience in a related data field: data engineering, analytics engineering or data science

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Dog friendly offices!

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringanalytics engineeringdata sciencesoftware engineering fundamentalsagile methodologiesAI-first practicesperformance managementdelivery ownershipmetrics interpretationquality assurance

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluencecontinuous improvementperformance managementalignmentmentoringteam healthrecruitment