At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a high-performing team to architect and maintain a robust data platform.
- Company: Join NatWest Boxed, focusing on innovative data solutions in the FinTech sector.
- Benefits: Enjoy a culture of innovation and ownership with opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Hands-on programming experience with Python or Go is preferred.
- Why this job: Shape the strategic vision of a cutting-edge data ecosystem.
- Qualifications: Proven experience with data mesh architectures and cloud-native technologies required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Join us as an Engineering Manager. Identifying and solving engineering-wide challenges as they appear. We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact. Investing in NatWest Boxed’s overall platform architecture. Ensuring the security of our systems and working practice.
What you’ll do:
- As a Data Platform Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of our data ecosystem, guiding a high-performing engineering squad to architect and maintain a robust platform that empowers every business unit to effectively ingest, manage, and leverage data for varied strategic requirements.
- Leading, mentoring and growing a high-performing team of data engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership.
- Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our data platform, focusing on self-service, reliability, scalability, security, and user experience.
- Critically evaluating architectural proposals and technical designs from the team, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, platform vision, architecture and security.
- Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for self-service platform engineering, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs.
- Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Analytics, Operations and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that enables all groups to easily manage data within defined standards.
- Driving projects from inception to delivery, taking into consideration the needs of your customers whilst fitting into the wider Platform strategy.
- Engaging with clients and vendors on integration patterns and implementation.
The skills you'll need:
- Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing data mesh architectures as well as the ability to connect technical architecture decisions directly to business outcomes; understanding the cost, risk, and revenue impact.
- Experience with FinTech / Banking and hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.
- A strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), event streaming (Kafka), and data-mesh tooling.
- Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), data streaming platforms, data transformation, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and self-service platform design.
- A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems in a regulated environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences internal and external.
Data Platform Engineering Manager employer: NatWest Group
NatWest Boxed is committed to delivering secure and scalable data solutions. Located in a dynamic FinTech environment, the team fosters innovation and collaboration across various business units. Employees benefit from a culture that prioritises professional development and engineering excellence.
We think you need these skills to ace Data Platform Engineering Manager
Communication Skills
SQL
Python
Problem-Solving Skills
Automation
Data Governance
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