Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform

PowerToFly; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology firm is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for their Regulatory Reporting Platform team in Greater London. This hybrid position involves leading a multidisciplinary engineering team while ensuring compliance with various regulations. The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of leadership experience in regulated industries and be proficient in data engineering, software engineering, and cloud technologies. Strong backend engineering skills and experience with modern data platforms are also essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years in an Engineering Manager or similar role.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or banking.
• Proven ownership of production-grade systems.

Responsibilities

• Own regulatory reporting systems and ensure compliance.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team for optimal executions.
• Oversee the development of data pipelines using modern tools.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Data engineering

Software engineering

Cloud experience (AWS)

Strong backend engineering (Java, Python)

Data quality control

API-driven services

Tools

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Job Description

Visa’s Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world’s most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you’ll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Regulatory Reporting Platform team. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, software engineering, and regulatory compliance, and is accountable for building and operating reliable, auditable, and scalable reporting systems across multiple regulatory regimes.

The successful candidate will manage a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for canonical data models, reporting pipelines, and submission services, ensuring regulatory deadlines are met while maintaining high engineering and operational standards.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Delivery Ownership

• Own the end-to-end delivery of regulatory reporting systems, from source ingestion to regulator submission and audit evidence
• Lead the design and evolution of a canonical data model supporting multiple regulatory regimes
• Ensure reporting platforms meet accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and auditability requirements
• Balance regulatory delivery with platform scalability, resilience, and technical debt management

Engineering Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of data engineers and software engineers
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for the team
• Foster a strong culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence

Data Engineering & Reporting

• Oversee the development of data pipelines and transformations using modern data tooling
• Implement strong data quality controls, lineage, and metadata to support audits and investigations
• Collaborate with Compliance and Risk to translate regulatory requirements into engineered data outputs

Software Engineering

• Own backend services supporting: regulatory submissions, report generation and validation, evidence, attestations, and regulator responses
• Ensure services are resilient, observable, and secure
• Apply sound distributed systems principles, including idempotency, retries, and failure handling
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on CI/CD, environments, and reliability

Governance, Risk & Audit

• Act as the engineering point of accountability for regulatory audits and reviews
• Clear audit trails and evidence packs
• Champion controls-first engineering and strong data governance practices

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role
• Experience in regulated industries such as fintech, payments, banking, or financial services
• Proven ownership of production-grade, business-critical systems
• Cloud experience (we are on AWS)
• Strong experience with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
• Hands‑on experience with dbt and workflow orchestration (Airflow / Astronomer or equivalent)
• Canonical and dimensional data modelling
• Data quality, reconciliation, and controls
• Auditability, lineage, and metadata management
• Strong backend engineering background (e.g. Java, Python)
• Experience building API‑driven services and data‑intensive applications
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and event‑driven architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.