Engineering Manager (Data Platform)

As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for managing engineers and product analysts who work in our Data Platform team, product or business functions within the wider organisation. You will assist your team in the scoping, planning and delivery of data engineering and analytics engineering projects, assuming accountability for their execution, and flexing your time as you see necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Staff management for 5-8 engineers and analysts across a range of skillsets and experience/seniority
• Scope and lead data engineering projects for the whole platform, identifying opportunities and challenges. Provide technical support on these projects where it's needed.
• Drive the design and building of new data models and data pipelines in production
• Align with data leads from across the organisation to continuously improve collaboration and ways of working across the data community.
• Ensure the Data Platform team continuously improve their delivery quality & velocity through Agile ways of working, team skills make up & recruitment, training, etc
• Take ownership of the operational health, security, risk & compliance and incidents relating to Data Platform, representing these elements at senior Kaluza platform health reviews
• Balancing competing engineering demands on Data Platform between delivery, support, technical improvements, innovation and addressing technical debt
• In close collaboration with product management, enable the team to prioritise work based on business impact and urgency, managing stakeholders where tough decisions are required.
• Engage with clients to gather and clarify requirements, translate them into actionable platform work, and ensure delivery meets agreed expectations.

Kaluza helps energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future. By building and managing the data platform infrastructure, this role enables the organization to turn energy complexity into seamless coordination and make clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

Required skills and experience:

• You are passionate about developing others and helping people become the best version of themselves. You have a strong focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, supporting your team and those around you as individuals.
• You are a dedicated leader who enables collective success and have experience in leading data-oriented teams of engineers
• You are able to draw on your significant experience in data engineering roles (inclusive of manager experience roles) to deliver high quality, actionable data pipelines and analytics.
• You have excellent presentation and communication skills and are able to articulate results clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders using both technical and non-technical language to fit your audience.
• You have experience in designing and building data pipelines, strategic data architectural decisions and high quality "datamart" objects across different business functions, e.g. product, finance, strategy, etc.
• Extensive experience in engineering robust ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines, with a strong focus on curating, transforming, and publishing data for optimal business consumption. This includes designing and implementing scalable data workflows, ensuring data integrity and quality, and leveraging advanced data engineering techniques to meet the evolving needs of the business
• Solid experience in designing and implementing data models, master data management, and data quality rules and logic.

Compensation and benefits:

• Salary: £72,800 - £91,000
• Pension Scheme
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GP
• Life Assurance
• Access to Furthr - a Climate Action app
• Free Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests
• Perks at Work - access to thousands of retail discounts
• 5% Flex Fund to spend on the benefits you want most
• 26 days holiday
• Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
• Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
• Dedicated personal learning and home office budgets
• Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today's challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future by orchestrating millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids.