Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Job no: 502546
Work type: Permanent Full Time
Location: London – Hybrid
Categories: Data Architecture & Data Engineering

Platform Engineering Manager, Platform & Infrastructure

Working at our iconic office in King’s Cross, London, and virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Your new role at NewDay

As the Platform Engineering Manager at NewDay, you will lead a team to design, optimize, and maintain our core technology platforms, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability. You’ll drive platform strategy, implement best practices in DevOps and CI/CD, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance solutions. This is a key leadership role where you’ll foster innovation and continuous improvement in a dynamic environment.

You’ll deliver

1. Lead and mentor a team of platform engineers, ensuring high-quality solution delivery and driving continuous improvement aligned with platform strategy.
2. Collaborate with technical and business leaders to define and execute the platform engineering roadmap, ensuring it aligns with overall business objectives.
3. Provide expert guidance across a broad tech stack (AWS, Kubernetes, Snowflake, Kafka, DBT, Tableau, etc.), supporting the team with complex technical challenges.
4. Work with architects and analysts to design, deploy, and optimize infrastructure and data pipelines, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
5. Oversee multiple data engineering projects, ensuring on-time delivery and close collaboration with business teams to meet their data needs.

What you’ll bring

We need knowledge, experience + expertise in:

1. Leadership: Experience leading and mentoring platform engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
2. Cloud Expertise: Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, GCP, and containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
3. CI/CD & Automation: Skilled in implementing continuous integration, delivery pipelines, and automation for scalable systems.
4. Security & Compliance: Expertise in managing security, data integrity, and regulatory compliance (e.g., PCI, GDPR).
5. Collaboration: Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams, aligning technical solutions with business goals.

And would love you to know or learn:

1. Experienced in data and platform engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable SaaS-based systems and managing platform engineering teams.
2. Expertise in AWS, Snowflake, CI/CD, streaming/messaging technologies, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), with a strong focus on containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
3. In-depth knowledge of regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI) and a demonstrated ability to deliver secure, reliable solutions.
4. Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across both technical and non-technical teams, ensuring high-quality, data-driven solutions.

About NewDay

We help people move forward with credit and help our colleagues to move their careers forward too. We use our highly flexible, scalable, and multi-product digital credit engine to power over 120 million transactions every year. Our brands include Aqua, marbles, fluid and Bip. We partner with leading brands such as John Lewis, AO, Argos and DEKO. Over 5 million UK customers are supported by our award-winning customer service.

At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We’re an equal opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We want all our colleagues to feel able to bring their whole selves to work. We don’t discriminate on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and carer status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: we’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you.

Our dynamic NewDay culture

We’re focused on what will drive impact in helping people move forward with credit. Our distinctive culture is geared to spark innovation and team working – with lots of open doors for development. Our customers can rely on us because we aim high, support each other, do the right thing and build for the future.

We invest in our colleagues. On top of a strong market competitive salary, you get a bonus opportunity that matches the impact (delivery + values) you drive in your role. We also help you retire better with market leading pensions.

At NewDay, #yourwellbeing matters: You get 26 days holiday and can buy up to 5 more after probation. Then you’ll get extra days as you build your career with us.

NewWork, our flexible, hybrid working approach, helps you to manage your work/life balance – and even bolt on work time in other countries before or after your holiday. And when you’re in the office, you get free healthy breakfast, fresh juices, lunch, barista coffee etc.

Our tax efficient green car and cycle to work schemes save you money (and help the planet).

Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to tell you more about any of our perks.

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Advertised: 02 Jan 2025 GMT Standard Time
Applications close: 31 Jan 2025 GMT Standard Time#J-18808-Ljbffr