Hybrid Data Engineering Manager – Real-Time Platform Lead

Forward Role Recruitment; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 74,800 - 101,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Birthday off

Enhanced parental leave

Income protection

Life assurance 3x salary

Health cash plan

Virtual GP

Therapy access

Gym discounts

Cycle to work

Free food

Friday bar

Job summary

Forward Role Recruitment is partnering with a hypergrowth business in Manchester to recruit a hands-on Data Engineering Manager who will lead a central data platform transformation. You will head the data engineering squad, delivering the data infrastructure, pipelines and reporting capabilities the business depends on.

The role focuses on moving from batch processing to real-time, event-driven architecture with a mandate for change and significant investment.

Qualifications

• Must have cloud data engineering on AWS.
• Must have people management and team leadership experience.
• Must have strong SQL and TS-SQL.
• Must have experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, SSIS or Matillion.
• Must have data visualization skills.
• Must have Infrastructure as Code awareness (Terraform or similar).
• Must have stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop your data engineering squad, including performance conversations and career development.
• Hands-on work across pipelines, cloud infrastructure, transformation layers, and reporting.
• Drive migration toward real-time, event-driven data processing.
• Keep existing SQL Server environments stable while the modern platform is built.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements and deliver solutions.
• Embed good engineering practices CI/CD, IaC and Agile where needed.
• Mentor colleagues and grow capability across the team.

Skills

AWS

People management

SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data visualization

IaC (Terraform)

Stakeholder management

Event-driven architecture

Tools

Terraform

SSIS

Matillion

Job description

Forward Role Recruitment is partnering with a hypergrowth business in Manchester to recruit a hands-on Data Engineering Manager who will lead a central data platform transformation. You will head the data engineering squad, delivering the data infrastructure, pipelines and reporting capabilities the business depends on.

The role focuses on moving from batch processing to real-time, event-driven architecture with a mandate for change and significant investment.