Pavilion Recruitment Solutions
Data Engineering Manager
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Data Engineering Manager
Salary - £80,000 - £90,000
Surrey/ Hybrid
We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead an Agile data engineering team delivering high-quality, business-critical data solutions. This is an opportunity to combine technical leadership, people management, and strategic influence while helping shape the future of a modern enterprise data platform.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of 3 – 5 data engineers through coaching, mentoring, and performance support.
- Provide technical leadership across multiple agile delivery squads, ensuring high-quality engineering standards and best practices.
- Support the migration of data workloads from legacy technologies to Microsoft Azure, helping teams adopt modern cloud engineering approaches.
- Drive consistency through engineering standards, service excellence, and resilient, cost-effective data pipelines.
- Work closely with Architecture and Technology teams to influence the design and evolution of the enterprise data platform.
- Facilitate technical workshops, estimation sessions, and solution discussions for new initiatives.
- Identify and resolve delivery risks, dependencies, and technical issues impacting engineering squads.
- Champion CI/CD practices, operational efficiency, and FinOps principles.
- Contribute to leadership discussions around team planning, delivery strategy, and continuous improvement.
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About You
You’ll be an experienced data engineering professional who enjoys enabling others to succeed. Whether you’re already managing a team or you’re a senior technical leader who’s been mentoring and guiding engineers, you’ll be comfortable leading people and driving technical excellence.
You’ll bring:
- A strong background in hands-on data engineering.
- Experience providing technical leadership, coaching, or mentoring engineers. Formal line management experience is welcome but not essential.
- Strong knowledge of modern data engineering principles and cloud platforms, ideally including Azure Synapse or Databricks.
- Experience delivering data products or platforms using Agile methodologies.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and FinOps principles.
- Experience working across multiple Agile teams using Jira.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and business teams.
- The ability to balance technical leadership with delivery and people development.
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We’re open to candidates from a range of technical environments. Experience leading data engineering teams using other cloud platforms or enterprise data technologies is equally valuable, provided you have a solid understanding of modern data engineering practices and a willingness to learn new technologies.
This role is a predominantly remote role – happy to discuss hybrid working patterns.
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