Manager Software Engineering
Role Overview
As Head of Data Engineering, you will provide leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the UK&I Data Engineering team. You will play a key role in driving cloud modernisation, strengthening governance and security practices, accelerating AI adoption, and ensuring the successful delivery of business-critical data products that support business growth and customer outcomes.
Working across global teams and stakeholders, you will balance delivery excellence with long-term technology strategy, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
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About the Role
As Head of Data Engineering, you will provide leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the UK&I Data Engineering team. You will play a key role in driving cloud modernisation, strengthening governance and security practices, accelerating AI adoption, and ensuring the successful delivery of business-critical data products that support business growth and customer outcomes.
Working across global teams and stakeholders, you will balance delivery excellence with long-term technology strategy, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support data engineers, ensuring clear priorities and consistent delivery
- Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation
- Support career development, succession planning, talent acquisition, and workforce planning
- Foster knowledge sharing and engineering excellence practices across US and UK teams
- Oversee delivery of data products, ingestion pipelines, reporting solutions, and customer-facing capabilities
- Lead cloud migration and modernisation initiatives leveraging Azure, Databricks, cloud-native services, and modern data architectures
- Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, security, compliance, and regulatory requirements
- Partner with Product, Analytics, Architecture, Operations, and Business Leaders to deliver scalable technical solutions
Requirements
- Experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Data Platforms, or related technology disciplines
- Leadership experience managing technical teams
- Strong expertise in modern data engineering practices, data architecture, and large-scale data platforms
- Experience delivering cloud-based solutions, preferably using Azure technologies
- Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, security, compliance, and risk management requirements
- Experience leading strategic initiatives and complex cross-functional programs
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and organisational leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to balance delivery execution with long-term technology strategy
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