Global Head of Data Engineering & Data Platforms

MAG (Airports Group); Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday, increasing with site

Option to buy up to 10 extra days plus

10% company pension

On-site gym

Discounts on CAVU products and rail/rc

2 paid volunteering days per year

Health and wellbeing events

Learning opportunities and mentoring

Enhanced parental leave

Mentoring programmes and learning

Disability & neurodiversity support

Job summary

MAG (Airports Group) via CAVU is recruiting a Head of Data Engineering to lead our global data engineering function and scale platforms, pipelines, and architecture. You’ll shape strategy, drive robust data pipelines, and empower cross-functional teams across analytics, product, and engineering.

You’ll bring deep Databricks expertise, strong leadership, and hands-on design capability, managing a high-performing international team while aligning data initiatives with business goals and security

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering or a related discipline with leadership experience.
• Strong experience with medallion architecture and Databricks.
• Proficiency with ETL tools such as Rivery, and ML-Ops frameworks.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with cloud data platforms and services (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud).
• Excellent written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to anticipate problems, remove blockers, and resolve issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers.
• Develop and execute the data engineering strategy.
• Design and improve data storage, processing, and integration architecture.
• Deliver scalable, high-quality data pipelines.
• Collaborate with data science, analytics, product, and engineering teams.
• Establish data quality, governance, observability and security.
• Stay ahead of data engineering trends and evaluate new tools.
• Ensure efficient use of infrastructure and team resources.
• Manage stakeholders and clear blockers.

Skills

Databricks expertise

Leadership

Python

Scala or Java

ETL tools (Rivery)

Cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/Google

Tools

Databricks

Rivery

ML-Ops tooling

Job description

MAG (Airports Group) via CAVU is recruiting a Head of Data Engineering to lead our global data engineering function and scale platforms, pipelines, and architecture. You’ll shape strategy, drive robust data pipelines, and empower cross-functional teams across analytics, product, and engineering.

You’ll bring deep Databricks expertise, strong leadership, and hands-on design capability, managing a high-performing international team while aligning data initiatives with business goals and security