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About the Role
Alto Software Group is seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead a team of three engineers. This role involves a 50/50 split between hands-on engineering and people/delivery management, focusing on scaling the data lakehouse, delivering infrastructure for data commercialisation, and building reusable data components.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, guide, and nurture a diverse data platform engineering team.
- Collaborate with peers, the Technical Product Manager, and Head of Platform & Data Engineering to expand the data platform engineering function.
- Guide, advise, and coach data platform engineers through one-on-one meetings, objective setting, and feedback.
- Partner with the Technical Product Manager to shape the roadmap and prioritize effectively.
- Write Python and Terraform, design systems, review code, and ship platform capabilities.
- Take ownership of delivery from design through deployment.
- Collaborate with product, commercial, and engineering teams to translate business problems into data solutions.
- Contribute to modernizing data infrastructure, including data extraction, retention policies, and migration to modern SQL frameworks.
- Ensure the data platform is resilient, performant, and ready for future needs.
Requirements
- Senior data or platform engineer with strong Python skills.
- Track record of building data platform infrastructure for engineers and analysts.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform.
- Comfort with infrastructure-as-code.
- Experience with a modern lakehouse or warehouse platform (Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery).
- Experience with data ingestion and transformation tools (Fivetran/DBT).
- Familiarity with Kafka or similar streaming systems.
- Solid SQL skills and data modelling sense.
- Awareness of container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes).
- Experience managing software engineers, including hiring, performance management, coaching, and career development.
- Appetite for staying technical and hands-on engineering.
- Capable of leading technical discussions and overseeing performance/delivery.
- Comfortable engaging directly with internal customers and stakeholders.
- Drive effective communication, including asynchronous communication via documentation (ADRs).
- Accustomed to operating with significant alignment and independence.
- Possess a platform mindset, taking pride in building tools that help other engineers.
Skills
- Python
- Terraform
- AWS
- Databricks
- DBT
- Fivetran
- SQL
- SQL Server
- S3
- EventBridge
- Kinesis
- Lambda
- EC2
- Kafka
- ECS
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code
Location
- London HQ
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K
Benefits
- Opportunities for career development and advancement
- Greater flexibility over where and when you work
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering
- Digital detox day
- Festive Closure
- Cycle to work scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection
- Private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
About the Company
- Alto Software Group is a B2B SaaS company powering over half of all UK housing transactions annually.
- We create software solutions connecting businesses and consumers, serving as a one-stop shop for estate agents and home builders.
- Our goal is to drive efficiency, speed up transactions, reduce risk, and improve the end-customer experience.
- We operate with a startup mindset, seeking individuals ready to tackle big ambitions in a fast-growing and exciting business undergoing significant change.
Equal Opportunity
- We want to make ASG more welcoming, fair and representative every day.
- We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed.