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About the Role
You will lead, manage, and mentor a team of data platform engineers, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive team culture. You will champion a product mindset for internal tooling, ensuring our platform empowers domain teams to build quickly and safely without bottlenecks. You will oversee recruitment, onboarding, and performance management, setting clear goals and expectations. You will manage the team's backlog, prioritize tasks, and define KPIs for platform health and team delivery. You will build strong relationships with stakeholders, communicate the team's roadmap, and invest in the career development of team members.
Responsibilities
- Lead, manage, and mentor a team of data platform engineers, fostering a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive team culture.
- Champion a product mindset for internal tooling, ensuring our platform empowers domain teams to build quickly and safely without bottlenecks.
- Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and performance management processes for the team.
- Set clear goals and expectations, providing regular feedback and guidance to team members.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of projects within the data platform roadmap, ensuring timely and high-quality outcomes.
- Manage the team's backlog, prioritise tasks effectively.
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for platform health and team delivery.
- Build strong relationships and collaborate effectively with key stakeholders, including technical and business leaders.
- Understand stakeholder needs and translate them into actionable requirements for the data platform.
- Communicate the team's roadmap, progress, challenges, and successes clearly and proactively to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Actively invest in the career development of your team members through coaching, mentoring, and identifying growth opportunities.
- Create personalised development plans and support engineers in acquiring new skills and expertise.
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and technical curiosity within the team.
- Able to architect custom AI solutions and smart automated systems that are safe, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term mission.
- Act as a technical bridge and mentor, training “builders
Requirements
- Solid understanding of modern data platform architectures (,e.g. Snowflake, data mesh/lakehouse, dbt, Airflow, streaming vs. batch pipelines, data contracts)
- Proven experience managing and leading high-performing data engineering teams in a product-driven environment
- Proven track record of mentoring and developing engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and professional growth.
- Demonstrable experience in managing project delivery, including planning, prioritisation, and execution.
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience shaping data platform strategy and vision, aligning technical capabilities with evolving business needs and helping drive technical innovation.
- A proactive approach to identifying and implementing improvements related to platform reliability, scalability, performance, and cost.
- Experience running a platform team that serves internal customers, with a focus on self-service and developer experience.
Skills
- Snowflake
- data mesh/lakehouse
- dbt
- Airflow
- streaming vs. batch pipelines
- data contracts
- AI solutions
- automated systems
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 2 days in the office
Experience Level
- Manager
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Benefit allowance
- Private medical
- Dental
- Health assessments
- Digital GP
- Life assurance
- Share schemes
- Financial coaching
- Dedicated annual learning allowance
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle-to-work schemes
- Season ticket loans
- Award-winning parental leave policies
- Fertility treatments support
- New additions to the family support
- Barista coffee
- Subsidised Just Eat lunches
About the Company
- We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else.
- Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win.
- We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.
- At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company.
- It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.
- We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up.
- We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.
- Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy.
- Come and join a mission that matters!
- We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong.
- We are part of The Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For 2026!
Equal Opportunity
- Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.