Data Engineering Manager
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Occupation TypeIT business analysts, architects and systems designers
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£54,900
(£28.15 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
Job Advert
Are you ready to lead a passionate data team, work with a modern stack, and make a tangible impact?
At AFI, we work hard, we love what we do and we strive for the best, especially when it comes to serving our customers and their pets. We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to join our supportive and forward-thinking Data Engineering function.
We’ve already done the heavy lifting: our solid Lakehouse architecture is built and thriving. Now, we’re in the exciting phase of creating viable, high-value data products off that Lakehouse to drive critical business decisions across the company. In this role, you’ll get to see the real-world difference your team's work makes every single day.
The Role:
A True Player-Coach, this is a weighted toward management and delivery over hands-on coding. While you need the technical chops to guide the team, your primary focus will be on people leadership, shaping engineering standards and driving complex data projects over the finish line.
You will be supporting and leading a team of 4 Data Engineers, helping them grow, unblocking their paths and ensuring our data platform remains trusted, scalable and secure.
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
We are open to experienced Data Engineering Managers, as well as highly skilled data professionals looking to take a definitive step into management.
Are you ready to lead a passionate data team, work with a modern stack, and make a tangible impact?
At AFI, we work hard, we love what we do and we strive for the best, especially when it comes to serving our customers and their pets. We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to join our supportive and forward-thinking Data Engineering function.
We’ve already done the heavy lifting: our solid Lakehouse architecture is built and thriving. Now, we’re in the exciting phase of creating viable, high-value data products off that Lakehouse to drive critical business decisions across the company. In this role, you’ll get to see the real-world difference your team's work makes every single day.
The Role:
A True Player-Coach, this is a weighted toward management and delivery over hands-on coding. While you need the technical chops to guide the team, your primary focus will be on people leadership, shaping engineering standards and driving complex data projects over the finish line.
You will be supporting and leading a team of 4 Data Engineers, helping them grow, unblocking their paths and ensuring our data platform remains trusted, scalable and secure.
What You’ll Bring to the Table:
We are open to experienced Data Engineering Managers, as well as highly skilled data professionals looking to take a definitive step into management.
- The Non-Negotiable: You must have expert-level SQL skills and a strong, fundamental data background.
- The Leadership Mindset: You know how to develop a team, prioritise workloads, and collaborate with Analytics and Data Quality teams to ensure joined-up, rather than fragmented, solutions.
- The Delivery Focus: You are highly organised and can manage project dependencies to ensure your team delivers reliable data from ingestion through to the published layer.
- Experience with Databricks or similar modern cloud data platforms (like Snowflake).
- Deep knowledge of source ingestion and data pipelines.
- Experience working with Financial Reporting data.
We believe that to do your best work, you need to be supported. You’ll be joining a highly passionate team that geeks out over a modern tech stack but also fiercely protects its work-life balance. We know that great data engineering takes focus, which is why we cultivate a remote culture that respects your time, celebrates wins, and genuinely enjoys working together.
Ready to lead the charge on our next phase of data innovation? Apply today.
Benefits Of Working With Animal Friends
We recognise that your hard work shouldn’t come without its perks, so here’s a little list of some of the things you can expect to get from us:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and we give you your birthday off
- 95% of our employee’s own pets, we’re able to provide up to 50% off insurance along with free access to our Vet consultation app JOII
- We believe looking after employees’ health is important, so we offer discount on gym membership, access to a Wellbeing hub, a health care cash plan and private medical insurance
- We like to celebrate success and recognise excellent employee performance; we will donate £3k to the charity of our employee of the quarter’s choice
- Most importantly, you`ll be working within a courageous, passionate and kind-hearted team
A large part of our success is due to our company values which are the foundation of how we work, we are courageous by continually looking for new ways to innovate our customers experience and the pet insurance industry. We are kind-hearted with animal welfare being important to us, we donate and support over 300 charities across the UK and worldwide, to date, we have donated over £5.5 million. And we are passionate about the support we provide to our customers helping them care for their pets.
Animal Friends Pet Insurance Ltd is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, religions, and sexual orientations. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
We offer accessibility help with application forms which is available via the jobs page of our website.
As an FCA regulated business, we require successful applicants to clear our pre-employment screening process which includes a credit check and references checks. Under the latest UK Right to Work regulations, we will require successful applicants to evidence their right to work in the UK, either in person, online, or digitally via a third party subject to circumstances.
Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled rather than the advertised closing date. Interviews will take place throughout this period; therefore, we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.
Department
Data
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
37.5
Salary
Up to £71K
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
37.5
Salary
Up to £71K