Software Engineering Manager (9 Month FTC)

Capital One; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-performance career progression

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Cycle-to-work scheme

Subsidised restaurant

Job summary

Capital One is seeking an experienced Software Engineering Manager for a 9-month fixed-term contract in Nottingham. You will lead a team of eight engineers focusing on enhancing the company’s data capabilities across its UK business.

The role requires strong leadership in delivering high-quality data solutions, advocating for innovative practices, and ensuring timely delivery of valuable products. Benefits include generous holiday entitlement, private medical insurance, and flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experienced leader focused on business value and talent development.
• Strong background as a software engineer.
• Experience with complex regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead and empower a high-performing data engineering team.
• Mentor engineers for personal and technical growth.
• Drive technical excellence and influence architectural direction.
• Deliver product roadmap in partnership with Product and Change Delivery.
• Encourage innovation and advocate for effective tooling.
• Build cross-functional relationships across Data Engineering.

Skills

Problem-solving leadership

Technical decision-making

Data platform technologies

AI developer tooling advocacy

Public Cloud solutions delivery

Agile methodologies

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Apache Airflow

Spark

AWS Glue

Snowflake

Job description

Software Engineering Manager – Data Engineering (9‑Month FTC)

Capital One is looking for an experienced Software Engineering Manager to lead a team of eight Software Engineers in our Nottingham office, focusing on building and evolving our Data capabilities across the UK business and within our advanced Cloud‑based Enterprise Data Ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high‑performing data engineering team: lead and empower eight Software Engineers to deliver high‑quality, scalable, resilient data solutions at pace.
• Champion people leadership and development: mentor engineers for personal and technical growth, driving a material positive impact on their careers and business influence.
• Drive technical excellence and architecture: provide strong technical leadership, maintain a high engineering bar, manage technical risks, and influence architectural direction.
• Deliver the product roadmap: own deliveries and ways of working, partnering with Product and Change Delivery to shape the roadmap and ensure timely delivery of valuable data products in a complex regulatory environment.
• Foster innovation and modern practices: encourage innovation, advocate for effective use of AI developer tooling, leading by example, and adhering to modern software development patterns and best practices.
• Forge partnerships: build strong cross‑functional relationships across Data Engineering and the wider UK/US Enterprise to provide the team with clear context and purpose.
• Platform and application management: own the team's business applications and platforms, ensure they remain well‑managed, secure and up‑to‑date, and provide effective incident support through your team.

Qualifications

• Approachable, inquisitive, problem‑solving leader focused on business value and passionate about developing talent.
• Comfortable with technology, architectural decisions, and technical trade‑offs, backed by a previous background as an experienced software engineer.
• Experience with data platform and ETL/orchestration technologies such as Apache Airflow, Spark, AWS Glue, and Snowflake.
• Experience with or strong advocacy for AI developer tooling such as Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf, and Gemini.
• Proficiency in delivering solutions within a major Public Cloud service such as AWS.
• Experience operating within an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum) in a complex, regulated industry like Financial Services.
• Strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and a positive, proactive bias for action balanced with self‑reflection.

Working Conditions

9‑month fixed‑term position based in our Nottingham office.

Hybrid working model: flexible to work from the office and from home, with a requirement to be in on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Benefits

• High‑performance career progression and training programs through Capital One University.
• Core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance.
• Flexible benefits such as season‑ticket loans, cycle‑to‑work scheme and enhanced parental leave.
• Open‑plan workspaces, accessible facilities and a fully‑serviced gym, subsidised restaurant and mindfulness and music rooms.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace. All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.