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# Data Platform Engineering Manager

- **Company:** Booksy
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £49,085.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Apache HTTP Server, Application Integration Architecture, BigQuery, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Programming Tools, Identity and Access Management, Open Source Technology, Google Cloud, System Availability, Large Language Models, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5808097579

## About the Role

Essentially, to ensure you succeed in this role you're going to need…

 * Dual Track Experience: 5+ years of experience in data platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering, with initial experience leading, mentoring, or managing tech teams.
 * Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep, practical experience using Terraform/Terragrunt to architect and manage infrastructure, preferably on Google Cloud Platform.
 * Advanced Platform Skillset: Strong familiarity with GCP data services (BigQuery, Cloud Composer, GKE, IAM) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes).
 * Platform-as-a-Product Mindset: A strong focus on customer enablement, platform reliability, system governance, and security.
 * English Fluency: At a minimum, we require professional English language skills (B2 level or higher). Why? English is our company language and is used for any business-wide communications, so we need you to be able to communicate smoothly to feel like an integrated part of Booksy.

## Description

As an Associate Data Platform Engineering Manager reporting to the Head of Data Engineering in our Data & Analytics - Data Platform Engineering team, your purpose will be to lead a small, high-impact team of 2-3 platform engineers while staying heavily involved in hands-on technical work.

You'll split your time between people leadership - coaching your team, driving agile delivery, and managing OKRs - and engineering tasks. You will design reliable Terraform/Terragrunt modules on GCP, champion data security controls (Dataplex, DLP), and establish standard, self-service developer tools that empower our downstream data teams to build with confidence., * Modern Open-Source Tools: An open-source-first mindset when researching, evaluating, or building internal platform tools.

 * Next-Gen Architectures: Exposure to PySpark and open table formats (Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake).
 * AI Integration: Experience or strong interest in applying AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude) and monitoring LLM-driven pipelines.


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