2 weeks ago

Data Engineering Manager

London 140K - 150K Permanent

A Commodities trading house in London are on the lookout for a new data engineering manager to join them during a growth stage. This is a hands-on leadership role combining platform ownership with team management and strategic delivery.

Key responsibilities:
  • Define and deliver the data engineering strategy across ingestion, governance, and serving layers
  • Own and evolve the Azure and Snowflake data platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and security
  • Build and maintain high-throughput, event-driven data pipelines (real-time and batch)
  • Establish standards across data models, pipelines, and APIs to improve consistency and reuse
  • Embed strong data governance including quality controls, access management, and compliance
  • Drive platform reliability, observability, and cost optimisation
  • Lead and develop a global team of 10-12 data engineers
  • Partner with trading, risk, finance, and technology teams to deliver business-critical data solutions
Requirements:
  • 7–10 years’ experience in data engineering, including team leadership
  • Strong hands-on expertise with Azure and Snowflake
  • Experience building scalable, production-grade data platforms
  • Familiarity with modern tooling such as Terraform and orchestration frameworks
  • Strong understanding of data governance and enabling AI/ML use cases
  • Experience in commodity or energy trading is a plus
  • 4-5 Days a week onsite at their London office

Unfortunately they cannot sponsor for this role so please only apply if you are eligible to work in the UK.
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