Engineering Manager — Platform & Cloud Leadership

Dunnhumby; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Birthday off

Competitive rewards package

Job summary

dunnhumby is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Application Platform Team. You will guide teams delivering high‑quality, production‑ready solutions, working closely with platform, product, and data groups to scale systems and foster engineer growth.

You’ll lead with hands‑on technical focus across .NET, Python, React/JS, and Terraform, and drive best practices in CI/CD, observability, and deployment across multi‑cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with .NET, Python, React/JavaScript, and Terraform.
• Comfortable with cloud-native environments (Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps) and working alongside platform teams.
• Proven experience shipping production code, ideally in cloud environments.
• Solid CI/CD knowledge (pipelines, testing, deployment) with tools like GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or Octopus.
• Prioritises code quality, testing, and standards as a given.
• Familiar with Kubernetes patterns, ArgoCD with Crossplane, secrets management, and multi‑cloud (GCP/Azure).
• Good understanding of observability (e.g. New Relic) and what “good” looks like in production.
• Able to set direction, not just follow – comfortable working cross‑functionally.
• Experience managing engineers and supporting team growth.
• Works effectively in Agile teams and keeps processes pragmatic.
• Strong communicator, able to engage both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Ability to take high‑level requirements and translate them into sound technical designs — decomposing complexity into logical, implementable components that the team can build with confidence.
• Encourages knowledge sharing through practical approaches (pairing, documentation, etc.)
• Experience with Elasticsearch preferred — designing and operating search solutions in production, including indexing strategies, query optimisation, and relevance tuning. Familiarity with Elastic Cloud is a plus.

Skills

Go/Rust

CI/CD

Strong communicator

Agile teamwork

Decomposing complexity

Technical leadership

Hands-on coding

Cloud-native

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Octopus

Elasticsearch

Job description

dunnhumby is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Application Platform Team. You will guide teams delivering high‑quality, production‑ready solutions, working closely with platform, product, and data groups to scale systems and foster engineer growth.

You’ll lead with hands‑on technical focus across .NET, Python, React/JS, and Terraform, and drive best practices in CI/CD, observability, and deployment across multi‑cloud environments.