Senior Data Engineering Manager

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a high-growth SaaS scale-up as a Senior Data Engineering Manager, where you'll lead a talented team and shape the future of data engineering. In this pivotal role, you will manage a global team, ensure the data platform meets business requirements, and collaborate with technology teams to deliver robust solutions. Your expertise in cloud architectures, data management, and team leadership will drive success in building a high-performance, scalable data platform. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, fostering innovation and excellence in data engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience managing data engineering teams and ensuring high-performance data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architectures and data engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Manage a global data engineering team and ensure the data platform meets business needs.
• Design and implement robust products and services for the data platform.

Skills

Line management experience

Data engineering technologies

Cloud architectures

Production code in C#

Production code in Python

Production code in Go

Object-oriented programming

Enterprise-level Data Engineering

Cloud storage platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

DevOps understanding

Containerization

Postgres expertise

MySQL expertise

CI/CD processes

Job description

Job Description

The Role

As a Senior Data Engineering Manager for this high-growth SaaS scale-up, you will play a key role in managing the data engineering team and shaping the data engineering culture!

You will:

1. Manage the global data engineering team split across the UK and the US (team of 5).
2. Ensure the data platform is fit for purpose and meets business requirements.
3. Build and maintain a high-performance and scalable data platform.
4. Work with other technology teams to design and implement robust products, services, and capabilities for the data platform.
5. Build and support platforms to enable both data engineers and product engineers to build a cloud-based platform.
6. Engineer platform ingestion, data warehouse/data lake, and API strategies for data management.
7. Work with DevOps to provide high-availability data solutions that scale.

About You

As a Senior Data Engineering Manager for this high-growth SaaS business, you will have a variety of skills to succeed in the role!

You will have:

• Line management experience of data engineering teams.
• Extensive knowledge of fundamental data engineering technologies and practices.
• Strong experience with cloud architectures.
• Experience writing production code in multiple languages including C#, Python, Go, etc.
• Experience writing OO code.
• Good experience in Data Engineering at an enterprise level.
• Good understanding of cloud storage platforms, preferably Azure, but knowledge of AWS or GCP is acceptable.
• Good understanding of DevOps.
• Containerization experience.
• Expertise in Postgres and MySQL.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD processes.