Data Engineering Manager

Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK’s leading gift experience provider. We’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering team at Buyagift & Red Letter Days, part of the Experience More group.

Requirements

• Lead and manage a team of data engineers working on our core data platform.
• Set technical direction and strategy across data infrastructure, data architecture, and data modelling, ensuring we build the right solutions in the right way.
• Own and evolve our data models and data architecture, ensuring they are scalable, well-governed, and aligned with business needs.
• Build and maintain scalable, resilient data pipelines and systems, including an in-house event ingestion platform.
• Define best practices for analytics engineering, data modelling, and schema design to support reliable reporting and downstream use cases.
• Take ownership of data code, underlying infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with data insights and analytics teams to develop and refine ML-driven analytics pipelines.
• Work with stakeholders across the business to understand data requirements and translate them into reliable, accessible data solutions.
• Ensure data quality, governance, security, and GDPR compliance across the data platform.
• Support and grow engineers through mentoring, clear objectives, and our engineering growth framework.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus generous pension plans, staff discounts, and share schemes.
• Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK), dental, life insurance, mental health support, and dog-friendly offices.
• Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (unless specified otherwise, 2 days a week in the office), and opportunities for international working.
• Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching, and development programs.
• Recognition & Giving Back: Regular awards, charity support, length of service awards, and volunteering days.