Data Engineering Manager

Role: Data Engineering Manager Salary: £110,000 - £120,000 + 10% bonus + share options Location: Central London - 1 day per week in the office (Hybrid)

Our client, a fast-growing product-led business in the insurance and financial services sector, is looking for a Data Engineering Manager/Head of Data Engineering to lead and scale their data team. The company leverages real-world behavioural and location data to power next-generation insights for underwriting, credit risk, and product innovation.

You'll define the data platform strategy, modernise infrastructure, and enable large-scale data processing to support analytics and machine learning use cases. Leading a team of four Data Engineers, you'll combine strategic vision with hands-on technical leadership in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

The role will involve:

• Defining and delivering the data engineering roadmap
• Architecting and modernising data platforms for scale and reliability
• Building pipelines for large-scale behavioural and GPS data
• Driving best practices across CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and governance
• Mentoring and growing a high-performing team

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years in data engineering, with 2+ years in a leadership role
• 60% hands-on technically/40% hands-off leadership and strategy
• Proven experience designing scalable data architectures and pipelines
• Strong Python, SQL, and experience with tools such as Airflow, dbt, and Spark
• Cloud expertise (AWS preferred), with Docker/Terraform
• A track record of delivering in fast-paced, scale-up environments

Nice to have:

• Experience with streaming pipelines, MLOps, or modern data architectures

This is a great opportunity to join a well-funded, high-growth business where you'll shape data strategy, build modern infrastructure, and directly influence product innovation at scale.

Apply today or get in touch for more details.