Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform

Storio group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A personalized photo products company in London seeks a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the data team. This role involves setting the technical vision, coaching teams, and overseeing innovation in data initiatives. Ideal candidates will have a strong record in data engineering, excellent communication skills, and a degree in a STEM field. Join a diverse and inclusive environment dedicated to creating impactful products.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in data platform engineering leadership.
• Experience with cross-functional team influence during change.
• Strong understanding of data architecture paradigms.

Responsibilities

• Set technical vision for data initiatives across teams.
• Oversee technical discovery and drive innovation.
• Coaching and developing engineering talent.
• Define and improve delivery and people strategy.

Skills

Leading high-performance teams

Technical vision

Agile delivery methods

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in a STEM field

Job description

Overview

Make your mark as a Senior Engineering Manager at Storio Group

About the role

This is a critical leadership role in our London-based data team. You will lead the effort to build and refine a data platform that accelerates a decentralised data adoption model. Your main focus is creating and leading a high-performing team that delivers trustable, usable data meeting all business needs.

How you embrace curiosity daily

• You set the technical vision for our data layer initiatives across multiple teams.
• You lead the definition and delivery of a new ownership model for the current data platform.
• You oversee technical discovery and drive innovation across the technology organisation.
• You coach and develop engineering talent, including other people managers and senior engineers.
• You steer technical prioritisation, balancing investments like simplification and debt reduction.
• You embed and scale standardised engineering practices and operational excellence.
• You define the delivery and people strategy at a domain level.

How you make your mark

• You rationalise the current data platform while building a strategic new one to maximise value.
• You achieve measurable improvements in business outcomes through your technical leadership.
• You successfully deliver against goals and roadmaps through cross-functional teams.
• You partner with the platform engineering team to accelerate building reusable datasets.
• You align multiple teams with product and business stakeholders, navigating complex trade-offs.
• You set and improve engineering metrics like DORA and delivery KPIs across all teams.

What you bring to the team

• A solid track record of leading and building multiple high-performance data platform engineering teams.
• Experience leading and influencing cross-functional teams through significant change.
• Experience building aplatform as a productusing agile delivery methods.
• Prior experience as a senior platform or data engineer.
• Experience guiding teams through complex technical data and analytics engineering decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, making complex topics transparent and easy to understand.
• Experience navigating a complex, enterprise-wide customer landscape with competing priorities.

What sets you apart

• Knowledge of the e-commerce domain.
• A degree in a STEM field like Computer Science or Mathematics.
• A strong understanding of data architecture paradigms and their business applications.

About us

At Storio Group, we help people hold onto life's moments. We make personalised photo products that turn fleeting memories into things you can keep, share, and re-live.

Every person at Storio Group helps create our products and shape our company. You will see the impact of your work daily. We invite you to make your mark on our business, products, and customers' lives.

We act with heart by putting people first and valuing diverse perspectives. We give our best and aim for high standards in all we do. We own our work, taking initiative to find solutions. We embrace curiosity, always learning and trying new things. We find the joy in our work and create a positive environment.

Equal Opportunities & Right to Work

Storio Group is an equal opportunity employer, celebrating diversity and fostering an inclusive environment. If you require reasonable adjustments during interviews please contact our HR team.

Applicants must also have the legal right to work in the position's country without requiring sponsorship.