Data Platform Leader & Engineering Manager (Hybrid)

Nominet; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Early Finish Friday

30 days annual leave

Bupa private healthcare

Pension scheme matched to 7%

Electric vehicle scheme

Rewards platform

Medicash discounts

Annual company bonus

Job summary

Nominet in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior data leader to unite data platform engineering, data analytics and database engineering into a single high-performing function. The role focuses on people leadership, setting engineering standards and guiding the modernisation of the data estate into code-defined, automated infrastructure.

You will manage a team of about 11, drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and partner with engineering, product, security and business

Qualifications

• Experience line managing engineers or analysts, including development, performance, and recruitment.
• Strong engineering background in data: platform engineering, data engineering, database engineering, or a closely related discipline.
• Practical experience with a public cloud lakehouse or modern data platform; Databricks and Spark experience is an advantage.
• Solid grounding in relational databases at scale, ideally including Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
• Real experience of DevOps practice applied to data or databases: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automated schema migration.
• A track record of raising engineering standards in an existing team.
• Clear evidence of a customer or product orientation in an internal‑facing team
• Excellent communication skills, and the judgement to know when to decide, when to delegate, and when to elevate.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary team across data platform engineering, data analysis and database engineering.
• Build a high-performing, connected data function by creating stretch opportunities, encouraging learning across disciplines and setting a culture of accountability, psychological safety and continuous improvement.
• Own and deliver the roadmap across the Databricks platform, analytics capability and Oracle/PostgreSQL database estate.
• Drive modern engineering practice across the data function, including version control, peer review, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure as code and eliminating manual production changes.
• Lead the transition from traditional DBA operations towards code-defined, automated and rebuildable database environments.
• Own observability, reliability and cost management across the data estate, establishing meaningful monitoring, alerting and clear service levels for the services teams depend on.
• Make data quality, ownership, lineage, governance, security and privacy engineered properties of the platform, with clear accountability and consistent definitions for consumers.
• Build a strong product mindset around internal customers by understanding their workflows, creating feedback loops and ensuring the roadmap reflects the outcomes they need.
• Work closely with engineering, product, security, architecture, and business teams, communicating technical decisions and trade-offs clearly while managing relevant third-party and vendor relationships.

Job description

Nominet in the United Kingdom is seeking a senior data leader to unite data platform engineering, data analytics and database engineering into a single high-performing function. The role focuses on people leadership, setting engineering standards and guiding the modernisation of the data estate into code-defined, automated infrastructure.

You will manage a team of about 11, drive a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and partner with engineering, product, security and business