Senior Engineering Manager - Data Platform
Visa
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
SeniorJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
API
Airflow
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google BigQuery
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Information Engineering
Data Governance
Data Warehousing
Distributed Systems
Python
Meta-Data Management
Software Engineering
Snowflake
Technical Debt
Backend
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Data Management
Data Pipelines
Redshift
Microservices
Job description
The successful candidate will manage a multidisciplinary engineering team responsible for canonical data models, reporting pipelines, and submission services, ensuring regulatory deadlines are met while maintaining high engineering and operational standards., Platform & Delivery Ownership:
- Own the end-to-end delivery of regulatory reporting systems, from source ingestion to regulator submission and audit evidence
- Lead the design and evolution of a canonical data model supporting multiple regulatory regimes
- Ensure reporting platforms meet accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and auditability requirements
- Balance regulatory delivery with platform scalability, resilience, and technical debt management
Engineering Leadership:
- Lead and develop a team of data engineers and software engineers
- Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for the team
- Foster a strong culture of ownership, quality, and operational excellence
Data Engineering & Reporting:
- Oversee the development of data pipelines and transformations using modern data tooling
- Implement strong data quality controls, lineage, and metadata to support audits and investigations
- Collaborate with Compliance and Risk to translate regulatory requirements into engineered data outputs
Software Engineering:
- Own backend services supporting:regulatory submissions, report generation and validation ,evidence, attestations, and regulator responses
- Ensure services are resilient, observable, and secure
- Apply sound distributed systems principles, including idempotency, retries, and failure handling
- Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams on CI/CD, environments, and reliability
Governance, Risk & Audit:
- Act as the engineering point of accountability for regulatory audits and reviews
- Clear audit trails and evidence packs
- Champion controls-first engineering and strong data governance practices
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.
Requirements
- 2+ years in an Engineering Manager or similar leadership role
- Experience in regulated industries such as fintech, payments, banking, or financial services
- Proven ownership of production-grade, business-critical systems
- Cloud experience (we are on AWS)
- Strong experience with modern data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
- Hands-on experience with dbt and workflow orchestration (Airflow / Astronomer or equivalent)
- Canonical and dimensional data modelling
- Data quality, reconciliation, and controls
- Auditability, lineage, and metadata management
- Strong backend engineering background (e.g. Java, Python)
- Experience building API-driven services and data-intensive applications
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and production operations
About the company
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale - tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters - to you, to your community, and to the world., Visa's Technology Organization is a community of problem solvers and innovators reshaping the future of commerce. We operate the world's most sophisticated processing networks capable of handling more than 65k secure transactions a second across 80M merchants, 15k Financial Institutions, and billions of everyday people. While working with us you'll get to work on complex distributed systems and solve massive scale problems centered on new payment flows, business and data solutions, cyber security, and B2C platforms.