Data Manager

Hybrid | £70 - 80k | UK - choice of five office locations

We're hiring a Data Manager to take ownership of the technical delivery of our enterprise data estate, spanning Data Platform, Data Products and Data Governance.

This is a hands‑on management role suited to someone who has previously led small data teams (typically 2-6 people) and wants to deepen their technical leadership while growing their people‑management responsibilities. You'll remain close to architecture and engineering decisions while ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery across the data lifecycle.

You’ll manage a team of 6 data professionals across Data Engineering, Data Products and Data Governance, with responsibility for:

• End‑to‑end delivery of enterprise data solutions, from ingestion and modelling through to governed, production‑ready data products
• Leading and developing a team of engineers and data specialists, setting clear technical direction and delivery expectations
• Planning and managing workloads, milestones and dependencies across multiple data initiatives
• Acting as a technical escalation point for data engineering, modelling, and platform design decisions
• Driving engineering best practices across pipelines, orchestration, testing, documentation and release management
• Ensuring our Azure‑based data platform (including Databricks and associated services) is scalable, resilient and cost‑effective
• Embedding data governance by design, including lineage, metadata management, master data and audit readiness
• Working closely with BI, IT, Architecture, Innovation and Transformation teams to align data delivery with business outcomes

We're looking for a technically credible data leader who enjoys delivery ownership and team leadership. You'll likely bring:

• Previous experience leading data teams of 2-6 people, either as a Data Manager, Lead Engineer or Senior Data Engineer with line‑management responsibility
• Strong hands‑on background in modern data engineering and cloud platforms (Azure experience strongly preferred)
• Good working knowledge of data modelling, orchestration, data quality and governance concepts
• The ability to balance technical depth with pragmatic delivery decisions
• Experience setting standards, reviewing designs and supporting engineers through complex problems
  
  Confidence communicating with architects, engineers and non‑technical stakeholders
• Ambition to progress your career into broader data leadership over time
• A technically influential Data Manager role with real ownership of enterprise data delivery
• Opportunity to lead and shape a growing data team and platform
• A clear progression path into more senior data leadership roles
• Hybrid working, with flexibility across five UK office locations