Engineering Director

Overview

Engineering Director to stand up and scale an engineering team for a Data Hub platform handling data consolidation, governance, and AI/ML enablement.

What you'll do

• Stand up and scale a high-performing engineering team.
• Own day-to-day engineering operations including sprint delivery, technical quality, and capacity planning.
• Drive technical excellence across architecture decisions, code quality, and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for technical blockers and delivery risks.
• Partner with the SVP on hiring, team development, vendor relationships, and strategic planning.
• Ensure production reliability by meeting SLAs with monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

What you'll need

• 5/8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams with hiring, performance management, and delivery accountability.
• Direct experience with modern data stack, including cloud data warehouses (Snowflake preferred), transformation frameworks, and orchestration tools.
• Track record delivering complex data platform initiatives (migrations, consolidations, greenfield builds).
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments.
• Ability to review code, debug production issues, and make architectural judgments.

Details

• Location: Remote, United Kingdom.