
Engineering Director
PRECISIONvalue
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Stand up and scale a high-performing engineering team
- Own day-to-day engineering operations: sprint delivery, technical quality, capacity planning
- Drive technical excellence: architecture decisions, code quality, DevOps/GitOps practices, production reliability
- Be the primary escalation point for technical blockers, cross-team dependencies and delivery risks
- Partner with the SVP on hiring, team development, vendor relationships and strategic planning
- Build, lead, and develop a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and platform engineers
- Own the engineering delivery cadence. Run sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives. Manage capacity across concurrent workstreams
- Lead technical design reviews and architectural decisions. Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with our medallion data architecture
- Establish and enforce engineering practices: such as code review, branching strategy, CI/CD, testing, documentation, incident management
- Serve as the engineering interface to Insights Hub, Evidence Solutions, Product Solutions, and IT. Translate business requirements into technical scope
- Ensure production systems meet SLAs. Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
Requirements
- 5/8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform engineering roles
- 3+ years leading engineering teams (hiring, performance management, delivery accountability)
- Direct experience with modern data stack: cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred), transformation frameworks, orchestration tools
- Track record of delivering complex data platform initiatives, such as migrations, consolidations, greenfield builds
- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
- Be able to review code, debug production issues and make sound architectural judgements.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringanalytics engineeringplatform engineeringcloud data warehousesSnowflaketransformation frameworksorchestration toolscode reviewdebuggingarchitectural judgement
Soft Skills
team leadershipperformance managementdelivery accountabilitystrategic planningcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationcapacity planningtechnical excellenceincident management