Engineering Manager, Data Quality & Observability

Depop; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

A fashion marketplace platform seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on improving data reliability and implementing data governance. The role involves driving technical solutions, ensuring compliance with GDPR, and fostering a culture of accountability and quality. Ideal candidates will have experience in data engineering and strong leadership skills. Flexibility in work arrangement is provided, along with great employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Cycle to Work scheme

Health and mental wellbeing support

Flexible working options

Paid parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead Manager leading data or platform teams.
• Strong belief in and experience applying data-as-a-product principles for data quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a multidisciplinary team of data and backend engineers focused on data quality.
• Drive the technical direction for data observability tooling and incident management automation.
• Define and roll out data ownership models, quality SLAs, and contracts.

Skills

Team leadership

Data engineering

Distributed systems

Data-as-a-product principles

Communication skills

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

Airflow

Monte Carlo

Great Expectations

Job description

A fashion marketplace platform seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on improving data reliability and implementing data governance. The role involves driving technical solutions, ensuring compliance with GDPR, and fostering a culture of accountability and quality. Ideal candidates will have experience in data engineering and strong leadership skills. Flexibility in work arrangement is provided, along with great employee benefits.