Data Engineering Manager
Utility Warehouse
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Manage and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, psychological safety, and continuous delivery.
- Define the Data Engineering team vision, balancing immediate business needs with a long-term shift towards a self-service data mesh architecture.
- Oversee the development of core data pipelines and platform tools, ensuring high performance for ingestion services.
- Ensure the implementation of robust ETL/ELT pipelines and scalable models (Kimball/Data Vault), maintaining overall warehouse health.
- Champion DevOps best practices, utilising Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD to ensure platform resilience.
- Partner with Data Architects and Governance teams to embed security, compliance, and robust system design into the platform.
Requirements
- Proven experience managing high-performing data engineering teams, including performance management, mentoring, and hiring.
- Strong background in Data Engineering with the ability to manage SQL-heavy workflows and complex data pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of modern stacks, including Cloud Warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake), Transformation (Dataform, dbt), and Python orchestration.
- Ability to design distributed systems capable of handling massive datasets and high-frequency streams.
- Production experience with containerisation (Kubernetes, Docker) and Infra-as-Code(Terraform).
- You can advise senior stakeholders on applying Data Engineering to solve complex business problems and are comfortable facilitating cross-functional design sessions.
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team environment
Benefits
- An industry benchmarked salary
- Share Options and a Save as You Earn scheme.
- Flexible remote working with the option to visit our London hubs for team meetings and company events.
- You'll have access to a range of hot desking spaces around the UK
- Electric Car salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker
- Discount on our services and you get our coveted Cashback Card for free.
- You’ll also get access to 100s of rewards and discounts through Perkbox
- A matched contribution pension scheme and life assurance up to 4x your salary.
- You can also access free mortgage advice and a financial wellbeing tool.
- Family-friendly policies, designed to help you and your family thrive.
- Discounted private health insurance, access to an Employee Assistance line and a free Virtual GP.
- Our wellbeing app Unmind supports your mental health.
- Belonging groups that help UW shape an even more inclusive future.
- A commitment to helping you develop your career journey through learning, coaching and new experiences
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Hard Skills & Tools
Data EngineeringETLELTSQLData mesh architectureData pipelinesDistributed systemsContainerisationInfra-as-CodeCloud Warehouses
Soft Skills
team managementmentoringperformance managementcollaborationfacilitationpsychological safetycommunicationinclusive environmentleadershipproblem-solving