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London / £110000 - £120000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

£110000 - £120000

Location

LOCATION

London

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

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.




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Cormac Fagan

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