Remote AI-Driven Data Platform Engineering Manager

Yuno; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Compensation

Remote Work – You can work from all EU

Home Office Bonus – furniture stipend

Work Equipment

Stock Options

Health Plan wherever you are

Flexible Days Off

Growth courses

Job summary

Yuno, a remote-first payments tech company, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Data team and steward data engineering for billions of events across 80+ countries. You will own people strategy and set technical direction at the core of Yuno’s business, enabling fraud detection, revenue analytics, and data-driven product decisions.

You will mentor engineers, drive hiring, and champion AI-first development while ensuring secure data handling and scalable architectures in a

Qualifications

• Experience managing data or software engineering teams.
• Strong decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Hands-on data engineering background: pipelines, data models, architecture.
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL; comfort with modern data stacks.
• Deep understanding of streaming and batch processing: Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow.
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and dbt.
• Knowledge of data quality, observability, and governance principles.
• Champion of AI-first development with testing and LLM tooling.
• Experience delivering in agile environments; strong English.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary data engineering team with ownership and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers with coaching, feedback, and clear career expectations.
• Drive hiring processes to attract and retain top data engineering talent globally.
• Create an environment where engineers are empowered to deliver with autonomy and pace.
• Own the full lifecycle for your team—from ingestion to storage, serving, and observability.
• Contribute to architecture design, code reviews, and complex troubleshooting.
• Set best practices across data modeling, pipeline reliability, testing, and data quality.
• Guide architectural decisions for high-throughput, real-time and batch data systems.
• Ensure secure data handling aligned with PCI-DSS, GDPR and compliance frameworks.
• Champion AI-first development with automated testing and LLM-powered workflows.

Skills

Team leadership

Technical ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hiring processes

Data pipelines

Python/SQL

Cloud data infrastructure

Streaming architectures

AI-first development

English proficiency

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Claude Code

LLMs

Cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Yuno, a remote-first payments tech company, is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Data team and steward data engineering for billions of events across 80+ countries. You will own people strategy and set technical direction at the core of Yuno’s business, enabling fraud detection, revenue analytics, and data-driven product decisions.

You will mentor engineers, drive hiring, and champion AI-first development while ensuring secure data handling and scalable architectures in a