On the Beach
Analytical Engineering Manager
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We’re On the Beach!
Since 2003, we've been rewriting the rules of how people discover, book, and experience their perfect getaway. What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks – and that’s just the beginning of our story.
We send around two million holidaymakers on their dream breaks every year. And we're still growing.
Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we’re accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.
Ready to build the future of travel with us?
About the Role
We are seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager to lead, scale, and mature our Analytical Engineering capability. Operating on a level of technical and strategic authority alongside our other Data leadership roles you will co-author our data platform architecture and drive the long-term data strategy across the business.
You will hold end-to-end responsibility for the technical implementation and architecture of our data platform from the moment data hits the Bronze layer through to its ultimate presentation inside modern analytical workbenches (such as Hex) and business intelligence tools. This role is highly visible and strategic, combining elite data platform engineering practices with direct talent design. You will actively shape the resources, skills, and profiles required to deliver high-performance analytical engineering, ensuring our engineers are perfectly equipped whether working within the core data function or deployed into cross-functional Pods to execute defined pieces of work.
Why this role is exciting
This isn't a traditional downstream analytics management role. You will have full technical sovereignty over how data is processed, modelled, and consumed across the entire enterprise, with the executive backing to shape your team and its capabilities your way. Standing side-by-side with Data leadership, you will co-author a modern, AI-enabled, real-time data fabric, ensuring our engineers carry elite data practices into every cross-functional Pod they support.
What you’ll be doing day to day
- Architectural Parity & Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical authority for the Analytical Engineering function. Partner as an equal peer within Data leadership to co-author company-wide data architecture decisions, tool selection, and global data platform governance patterns.
- End-to-End Post-Bronze Ownership: Take full technical accountability for the data transformation lifecycle. This spans the entire medallion journey—cleansing data out of the Bronze layer, engineering robust Silver and Gold multi-use layers, establishing the enterprise semantic layer, and optimising the final presentation within consumption workbenches (e.g., Hex). Note: This role is exclusive of the initial data acquisition and extraction into the Bronze layer.
- Resource, Pod & Capability Shaping: Act as the chief architect of the Analytical Engineering talent blueprint. Proactively define, develop, and forecast the resource requirements, skill matrices, and profiles needed to deliver analytics capability across the organisation. You will establish the standards that ensure our engineers maintain engineering excellence when embedded into delivery-focused Pods across various business areas.
- Semantic Enablement for AI: Lead the design of advanced metric graphs and semantic layer protocols specifically optimised to safely feed generative AI applications, text-to-SQL interfaces, and natural language analytics engines (leveraging tools like Claude and Gemini).
- Engineering Rigour & Cost Optimisation: Champion the embedding of standard software engineering practices into analytics (CI/CD, automated testing, version control). Jointly own lakehouse compute efficiencies by auditing transformation query performance and dbt build strategies to minimise platform overheads.
- People Development: Line-manage, mentor, and inspire a growing team of analytical engineers. Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture centred around data quality, metric single-source-of-truth, and continuous learning.
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You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experience
- Technical & Pod Leadership: Extensive experience leading, scaling, and developing high-performing data or analytical engineering teams, with a solid understanding of managing engineering talent deployed across matrixed or Pod-based operating models.
- Platform Architectural Mastery: Deep knowledge of lakehouse and medallion data platform design patterns, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade semantic models providing the robust layer between underlying data and modern analytical workbenches (e.g., Hex).
- Strategic Talent Design: Demonstrated ability to map out organisational capabilities, identify technical skill gaps, and shape the resource profiles required to deliver modern analytical engineering.
- Modern Analytics Stack Expertise: Expert-level SQL and deep mastery of dbt (data build tool) or similar orchestrators, coupled with a thorough understanding of Kimball dimensional modelling principles and star schema layouts.
- AI Native Mindset: A progressive understanding of how automated AI agents consume data structures, and practical familiarity with utilising generative AI coding companions to safely optimise logic and automate pipeline documentation.
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What to expect from our interview process
We’ll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage of which may be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre.
We want to make sure everybody has the opportunity to perform at their best. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.
Ways of working
- Our full-time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We have core working hours between 10am - 4pm, so we can collaborate and enjoy the social side of work.
- We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. You’ll be in the office one day every two weeks, and you’re more than welcome to come in more if you’d like.
Our benefits
We might be biased but we think our colleagues are pretty great. They're the people that have made On the Beach what it is today and continue to make it vibrant and successful tomorrow. That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.
These include:
- 25 days holiday plus your birthday off
- Generous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your On the Beach package holiday
- Access to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualifications
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
- Employee Assistance Programme and free access to counselling
- Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
- Company Sick Pay scheme
- Regular wellbeing events
- Gym discount
- Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
- Death in Service cover
- Onsite subsidised coffee shop
- The Sandbox (our very own bar)
- Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City Centre
- Regular social events
- Cycle to Work scheme
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