Analytics Engineering Manager

Analytics Engineering Manager

London / Hybrid

Up to £100,000

The Opportunity

This is a Analytics Engineering Manager role leading a growing analytics engineering function at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, product, and advertising performance, within an AdTech business. The focus of the role is on turning complex, high-volume data into trusted, scalable analytics that support commercial decision-making. You’ll own the analytics engineering roadmap, lead delivery outcomes, and act as the bridge between technical teams and senior stakeholders, ensuring data is reliable, well-governed, and actionable.

The Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the analytics engineering team, owning delivery quality and outcomes
• Own and execute the analytics engineering roadmap, balancing new capability with technical debt
• Design and evolve ELT pipelines, data warehouse models, and analytical structures
• Ensure reliability and consistency of advertising and performance data across multiple platforms
• Act as the primary interface between engineering, analytics, product, operations, and commercial teams
• Translate business requirements into clear technical plans and priorities
• Define and enforce data governance standards, including testing, documentation, lineage, and observability
• Improve operational efficiency through automation, validation, and anomaly detection
• Maintain hands-on involvement in critical pipeline design, data modelling, and optimisation work
• Drive continuous improvement across tooling, processes, and team capability

Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years’ experience across analytics engineering, data engineering, or data platform roles
• Proven experience leading and developing technical data teams
• Expert SQL skills and strong Python capability
• Hands-on experience with dbt (or similar) and modern cloud data warehouses - the preference being BigQuery
• Experience with Looker advantageous
• Strong understanding of advertising and performance data, including measurement and attribution
• Experience building and scaling data governance, testing frameworks, and CI/CD for analytics
• Demonstrated ability to own roadmaps, prioritisation, and delivery in complex environments
• Strong communicator, able to engage both technical teams and senior stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, cross-functional environments