Data Engineering Manager
Location: UK / Ireland | remote
Salary: £85,000 - £115,000 + (performance related bonus)
No visa sponsorship offered
Are you a hands-on Data Engineering leader who enjoys solving complex financial data challenges, building scalable platforms, and leading high-performing teams through fast-moving delivery environments?
We’re partnering with a rapidly growing global payments organization that is building the next generation of enterprise data and compliance platforms, and they’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to play a key role in that journey.
This is not a “people manager only” role. You’ll lead a small team while remaining deeply involved in architecture, delivery, engineering direction, and technical decision-making. The work sits at the intersection of data engineering, financial compliance, and platform modernization, making it an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys both strategic ownership and hands-on problem solving.
You’ll help drive a large-scale safeguarding and transaction reconciliation initiative designed to support evolving global regulatory requirements, while also helping modernize the broader data platform toward a cloud-native Snowflake/DBT ecosystem.
What Makes This Role Interesting
* High-impact role tied directly to enterprise compliance and financial safeguarding initiatives
* Opportunity to shape and influence technical direction with significant autonomy
* Blend of leadership, architecture, delivery, ownership, and hands-on engineering
* Collaborative engineering culture with strong cross-functional partnership
* Chance to help modernize a large-scale data platform into a Snowflake/DBT/Airflow environment
* Real ownership - this team values outcomes, initiative, and pragmatic problem-solving over heavy process
The Role
You’ll lead a small team of Data Engineers focused on building scalable data solutions that support transaction matching, reconciliation, safeguarding, and regulatory reporting capabilities.
This role requires someone who can balance multiple responsibilities:
* Defining and driving technical roadmaps
* Managing delivery and sprint execution
* Supporting and mentoring engineers
* Staying hands-on with data pipelines and engineering decisions
* Partnering with auditors, finance teams, product stakeholders, and leadership
The environment is Agile, collaborative, and fast-paced, with a strong emphasis on accountability, communication, and execution.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers in an Agile delivery environment
* Own technical planning, roadmap alignment, sprint execution, and delivery tracking
* Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and enterprise data workflows
* Partner with business, accounting, compliance, and product teams to deliver regulatory-focused data solutions
* Design robust data processes that support safeguarding and reconciliation requirements
* Drive automation and continuous improvement initiatives across the data platform
* Remain hands-on with architecture, coding, reviews, and engineering problem solving
* Help define best practices around data quality, testing, monitoring, and operational reliability
* Clearly communicate technical solutions, trade-offs, risks, and delivery status to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
* Participate in discussions with auditors and compliance stakeholders to explain platform design, controls, and data processes
* Support the evolution of the platform toward a modern Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, and cloud-based architecture
What They’re Looking For
* 8+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform Eegineering
* Previous experience leading teams or acting as a technical lead in delivery-focused environments
* Strong hands-on SQL and database experience across platforms such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, or Snowflake
* Strong understanding of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and enterprise data architecture
* Experience building scalable data solutions in regulated or compliance-heavy environments is highly desirable
* Ability to think through end-to-end data solutions and communicate technical decisions clearly
* Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with sprint planning, roadmap ownership, and cross-functional collaboration
* Some hands-on experience with Java or Groovy is beneficial, but deep expertise is not required
* Exposure to cloud environments and modern data tooling such as Snowflake, DBT, or Airflow is advantageous
* Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools and modern development workflows
* Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
* Detail-oriented mindset with the ability to work through complex regulatory and operational requirements
The Ideal Profile
This role would suit someone who:
* Enjoys operating in highly accountable, delivery-focused environments
* Can balance leadership responsibilities with technical contribution
* Is comfortable navigating ambiguity and helping teams execute through change
* Has experience building data platforms in financial services, payments, accounting, reconciliation, or compliance-driven domains
* Can confidently explain technical solutions to auditors, business stakeholders, and engineering teams alike
* Thrives in environments where autonomy, ownership, and collaboration are highly valued
If you’re looking for a role where you can combine technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and meaningful business impact within a modern payments environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they only meet 50-60% of the descriptions, however, when looking at women and other minority groups, they can look for up to a 99% match in order to apply to a role. If you feel you are a fit for our role, please still apply, don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box. We’d still love to hear from you. We encourage underrepresented talent to apply to all our roles & support accessibility needs