Senior Engineering Manager (Data Platform & Analytics Engineering)

Kaluza; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP

Life Assurance

Flexible working — day-one benefits

26 days holiday

Job summary

Kaluza in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager (Data Platform & Analytics Engineering) to lead the Data Platform and Analytics Engineering teams across data ingestion, modeling, and governance. You will partner with Head of Data Science & Products to shape the data architecture for an international platform.

Based in London, Bristol or Edinburgh with hybrid options, you will drive agile delivery, staff development, and collaborations with product management, ensuring robust

Qualifications

• People-first leader with a focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Experienced manager of data-oriented engineering teams.
• Technical expert in data and analytics engineering delivering high-quality data pipelines.
• Architectural mindset for data pipelines and data marts across product, finance, or strategy.
• Pipeline specialist with extensive ETL/ELT experience and data publishing.
• Data governance focused with master data management and data quality rules.
• Strong communicator able to present to technical and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Proficient in a modern analytics stack: SQL, GitHub, Python, BI tools, and cloud services (AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Platform and Analytics Engineering teams.
• Scope and lead data engineering projects across the platform.
• Drive the design and building of data models and production pipelines.
• Collaborate with data leads to improve cross-team collaboration.
• Own security, risk, compliance, and incidents for the Data Platform.
• Foster Agile delivery and support recruitment.
• Partner with product management to prioritise work based on business impact.

Skills

People management

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

SQL

Python

GitHub

Cloud services

BI tooling

Tools

dbt

dataform

Databricks

Job description

Job title: SeniorEngineering Manager (Data Platform & Analytics Engineering)

Location: London, Bristol or Edinburgh (Including Hybrid)

Reporting to: Head of Data Science & Products

This role is based in London, Bristol or Edinburgh and requires existing right to work in the UK.

At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Where in the world of Kaluza will I be working?

You will be joining the Kaluza Data community. Data is the foundation of everything we do as an organisation, and to deliver our vision we need curious, tenacious people who can turn this data, and their knowledge, into insight, strategy and actions.

You’ll be working on the Kaluza platform. This is a technology platform that aims to revolutionise the operating platforms for energy retailers globally. This platform is being built with globalisation and regionalisation in mind and is the foundation for decarbonisation efforts by Kaluza’s customers. We are looking to transform to an international ready model to help the business take on new challenges and external customers.

More specifically, you will join our Data leadership team, working directly to Kaluza’s Head of Data Science & Product, and will be the lead for the Data Platform team as part of this. The Data Platform team lies at the epicentre of Kaluza’s evolving data & architecture strategy - they build and own the infrastructure, tooling and governance for Kaluza's internal data pipeline, from data ingestion, data cataloguing to data storage and exposing data externally.

What will I be doing?

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for managing engineers and product analysts who work in our Data Platform team, product or business functions within the wider organisation. You will assist your team in the scoping, planning and delivery of data engineering and analytics engineering projects, assuming accountability for their execution, and flexing your time as you see necessary.

You will introduce thought‑leadership on how to deliver excellent analytical and data engineering to the wider practice and contribute to cultivating a positive Kaluza community. It’s an exciting time currently at Kaluza to contribute to our future state architectural decisions with the opportunity to shape our data estate to represent the best analytical engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Staff Management: Lead the Data Platform and Analytics Engineering teams.
• Project Leadership: Scope and lead data engineering projects across the platform, providing technical support where needed.
• Technical Excellence: Drive the design and building of new data models and production data pipelines.
• Community & Collaboration: Align with data leads across the organisation to improve collaboration and ways of working.
• Operational Health: Take ownership of security, risk, compliance, and incidents relating to the Data Platform.
• Agile Delivery: Ensure teams continuously improve quality and velocity through Agile methodologies and recruitment.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with product management to prioritise work based on business impact and urgency.

About You

• People-First Leader: You are passionate about developing others and helping people become the best version of themselves, with a strong focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
• Experienced Manager: You are a dedicated leader who enables collective success and has experience leading data‑oriented teams of engineers.
• Technical Expert: You can draw on significant experience in data and analytics engineering to deliver high‑quality, actionable data pipelines.
• Architectural Mindset: You have experience designing and building data pipelines, strategic data architectural decisions, and high‑quality "data mart" objects across functions like product, finance, or strategy.
• Pipeline Specialist: You possess extensive experience in engineering robust ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines, with a focus on curating, transforming, and publishing data.
• Data Governance Focused: You have solid experience in implementing data models, master data management, and data quality rules.
• Strong Communicator: You have excellent presentation skills and can articulate results clearly to both technical and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Stack Proficient: You have experience working with a modern analytics stack, including SQL, GitHub, Python, BI tooling (e.g., Tableau), and native cloud services like AWS or GCP.

What will set you apart

• Orchestration Mastery: Deep experience with data orchestration tooling such as dbt or dataform.
• Platform Specifics: Hands‑on experience with Databricks.
• Modeling Expertise: Practical knowledge of Kimball’s dimensional modeling.

Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide our business:

Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.

From us you’ll get

• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
• And more…

Even better? You’ll have access to these benefits from day 1 when you join.

We want the best people

We’re keen to meet people from all walks of life — our view is that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We want to build teams which represent a variety of experiences, perspectives and skills, and we recognise talent on the basis of merit and potential.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. But if you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure, we'd still love to hear from you.

Find out more about working at Kaluza on our careers page and LinkedIn.

You can also find our Applicant Data Protection Policy here.