Senior Data Engineering Manager

You'll bring a combination of technical expertise, strategic thinking and people leadership, alongside:

Proven experience building modern data platforms and pipelines from the ground up.

A strong track record of transforming legacy or on-premises environments into modern cloud or hybrid data architectures.

Deep expertise across the Azure data ecosystem, including: Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Azure Synapse Analytics / SQL Databricks Azure Data Factory (ADF) / Microsoft Fabric Event Hub and Kafka Azure Functions Key Vault Microsoft Purview

Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

Azure Synapse Analytics / SQL

Databricks

Azure Data Factory (ADF) / Microsoft Fabric

Event Hub and Kafka

Azure Functions

Key Vault

Microsoft Purview

Strong knowledge of data platform engineering principles, including storage and compute patterns, batch and streaming architectures, orchestration, APIs, schema design, performance optimisation and reliability engineering.

Experience leading engineering teams and developing technical capability.

A strong understanding of data governance, privacy, lineage and data quality frameworks.

Proven success in driving engineering excellence and technical debt remediation.

We offer a highly competitive reward package including:

Generous annual bonus

Car allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Defined Contribution pension scheme

Life assurance, income protection and medical cover

Access to a remote GP service, nutrition coaching, personal training, unlimited mental health support and medical second opinions

27 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days

Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme with free on-site charging

Flexible and supportive working environment focused on wellbeing and development

If you're excited by the prospect of modernising a complex data landscape, leading talented engineers, and building the platforms that will support the next generation of analytics and AI, we'd love to hear from you.

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