About The Business
Quilter plc is a leading wealth‑management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as at end December 2025). It offers financial advice, investment platforms, multi‑asset investment solutions and discretionary fund management. The business comprises two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi‑asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has a presence throughout the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands. At Quilter we never stand still; our foundations are rooted in extraordinary expertise, trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, and we strive to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising and becoming more customer‑centric. If you want to be bold in pursuing your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve our way of working, it’s the perfect time to join us.
About The Role
Level: 5
Department: CDO
Location: Southampton or London
Contract type: Permanent
The role sits within the Chief Data Office and reports to the Head of Data Platforms.
Team Management & Growth
* Lead a team of data‑platform engineers through coaching, mentorship and technical guidance.
* Support individual career development and performance feedback, creating growth opportunities for the team.
* Foster a collaborative, inclusive and high‑performance team culture.
Technical Oversight & Delivery
* Define platform engineering standards and best practices ensuring robust, efficient and secure platform configuration and delivery.
* Guide the design and implementation of the platform to support federated usage by data engineering, reporting, advanced analytics and AI.
* Review architecture and code, provide technical direction and resolve complex engineering challenges hands‑on when needed.
* Ensure delivery of high‑quality, reliable capabilities aligned with business goals and engineering best practices.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration
* Partner with product managers, data scientists, analysts and business stakeholders to understand requirements and prioritise work.
* Work closely with platform‑tenant teams to develop delivery processes that continually improve capabilities.
* Translate business needs into actionable engineering detailed plans and ensure timely delivery of key projects.
* Communicate clearly across technical and non‑technical teams to align on priorities and progress.
Operational Excellence
* Promote operational stability and reliability of platforms and services through monitoring, alerting and incident response.
* Advocate for high standards in resilience, security and compliance by collaborating with platform tenants and data governance teams.
* Drive continuous improvement in development workflows and team productivity.
Qualifications
* Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., computer science, engineering, maths, physics) or evidence of equivalent practical experience.
Knowledge & Experience
* Proven experience in managing and growing technical teams within a complex business environment.
* Strong technical hands‑on experience in designing, building and maintaining data platforms in an Azure, Databricks and Fabric ecosystem.
* Experience creating services and support to allow capabilities to be federated with clear standards and guardrails.
* Experience implementing batch and stream pipeline capabilities in a kappa architecture.
* Setting technical direction and establishing platform engineering standards.
* Managing roadmaps, sprint planning and delivery across multiple projects or squads.
* Experience automating solution delivery through IaC and deployment pipelines to ensure stability, resilience and efficiency.
* Experience running platforms with SLAs/SLOs, incident management and problem resolution.
Skills
* Strategic thinker with a curious mindset and strong problem‑solving skills.
* Ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear, concise manner.
* Databricks: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, Notebooks, Clusters, MLflow.
* Azure: ADLS Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs/Kafka, Key Vault, Functions, Synapse, AI Foundry, Networking.
* MS Fabric: Tenant Management, Workspace Private Links, Deployment, Capacity Management, Workspace Management, One Lake, Data Mirroring, Power BI.
* Languages: Terraform, Python, SQL, PowerShell.
* CI/CD: Azure DevOps pipelines for data platform deployments.
Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but skills, qualifications, experience and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Core Benefits
* Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
* Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in the incentive scheme, encouraging business performance and contribution.
* Pension Scheme: A non‑contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
* Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include partners or children.
* Life Assurance: 4× your salary.
* Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
* Healthcare Cash Plan: Available for Jersey employees only.
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.
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