Data Platform Manager — Lead Hybrid London Team

Funding Circle Ltd.

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Barista coffee and subsidised Just Eat
Private medical and dental
Life assurance and share schemes
Annual learning allowance
Cycle-to-work and season ticket loans

Job summary

Funding Circle Ltd. is looking for a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Data Platform Engineering group, reporting to the Head of Data Engineering.

You’ll shape the delivery engine, career progression, and stakeholder alignment as the migration to a modern Snowflake-based platform continues. You’ll own delivery, team health, and cross-functional collaboration with tech and product partners, driving high-quality outcomes while enabling rapid internal tooling and safe,

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading data engineering teams in a product-driven environment.
  • Track record mentoring engineers and delivering on data platform initiatives.
  • Experience shaping platform architecture, roadmaps, and prioritisation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, manage, and mentor a team of data platform engineers.
  • Oversee data platform roadmap planning and delivery.
  • Define KPIs for platform health and team performance.
  • Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to translate needs into actionable requirements.
  • Drive recruitment, onboarding, and performance management for the team.

Skills

Team leadership
Stakeholder management
Agile/Scrum
Data platform strategy
Technical mentoring
Product mindset
Continuous learning
Technical communication

Tools

Snowflake
dbt
Airflow

Job description

Funding Circle Ltd. is looking for a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team within the Data Platform Engineering group, reporting to the Head of Data Engineering.

You’ll shape the delivery engine, career progression, and stakeholder alignment as the migration to a modern Snowflake-based platform continues. You’ll own delivery, team health, and cross-functional collaboration with tech and product partners, driving high-quality outcomes while enabling rapid internal tooling and safe,

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