Engineering Manager (Data Engineering)

Data Engineering Managers at Compare the Market facilitate technical discussions with Engineers and Staff Engineers to help the team identify simple, effective solutions to complex problems. They support and empower Engineers to lead technical initiatives that improve engineering practices and team maturity. You will continuously assess and improve team processes to enhance delivery and alignment with agile principles. You’ll focus on the professional development of team members through coaching, mentoring, and feedback, fostering personal growth and ownership. Support the hiring and retention of top engineering talent, and champion the company’s values both within technology and across the organisation.

Some of the great things you’ll be doing:

• High Performance Culture: Empower autonomous decision-making within teams by removing barriers and fostering a culture of ownership and accountability, helping teams focus on high-priority tasks. Drive a culture of continuous improvement and use data-driven insights to optimise team performance. Use metrics to track team efficiency and make informed decisions about areas for improvement.
• People Leadership: Oversee People Performance by guiding the development and performance management of your direct reports, developing, attracting and retaining high performing talent. Focus on the professional development of team members through coaching, mentoring, and feedback, fostering personal growth and ownership. Support the hiring and retention of top engineering talent, and champion the company ‘ s values both within technology and across the organisation.
• Delivery & Task Performance: Drive performance across the team by establishing key metrics to measure progress and identify opportunities for improvement. Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Technology Delivery Managers to ensure delivery aligns with the technical roadmap and company strategy, while maintaining high operational standards for the systems the team owns
• Stakeholder Management and Communication: Engage with stakeholders across CtM to ensure transparency, alignment, and effective communication of technical and strategic goals. Bridge the gap between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Team Leadership: Facilitate technical discussions with engineers, to help the team identify simple, effect solutions for complex problems. Support and empower engineers in driving initiatives that enhance engineering practices and improve overall team maturity. Serve as a facilitator to promote collaboration, clear communication, and a continuous flow of progress by removing any impediments. Continuously assess and improve team processes to enhance delivery and alignment with agile principles
• Incident Management, operational excellence: Take ownership of incident management, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to services. Manage escalation processes, addressing complex technical issues and ensuring swift, effective resolutions that align with operational standards.

We’ve carved a meerkat-shaped niche and we’re looking for ambitious, curious thinkers who thrive in a fast-moving, high-impact environment. If you love accountability, embrace challenge, and want to make a real difference, you’ll fit right in., * Experience leading data engineering teams building modern data platforms or large-scale data pipelines and supporting agile teams.

• Strong understanding of streaming and batch data processing architectures, ideally including technologies such as Kafka, Databricks, orchestration frameworks, and dbt.
• Skilled in driving continuous improvement using data driven techniques.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, negotiation, and organisational skills.
• Experienced in coaching teams to adopt agile principles and practices.
• Solid technical understanding, able to bridge technical and non-technical discussions.
• Skilled in aligning cross-functional teams and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Leads through influence, fostering accountability and trust.
• Actively shares knowledge and promotes learning within teams and communities. Strong interpersonal skills, fostering collaboration and understanding., If you’re ready to stretch yourself, raise the bar, and grow with a team that’s serious about performance, innovation, and purpose, we’d love to hear from you.