Senior Data Engineering Manager
Job Summary
Who are we
Were a specialist employee benefits provider striving to create healthy happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group were on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.
The role
What will you be doing
14 Senior Data Engineering ManagerHybrid 3 days minimum in office
Location Dorking or Basingstoke (option for 1 day a week in London)
What will you bring
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineering Manager to modernise Unums cloud and onprem data estate building scalable automated platforms and pipelines from first principles. Youll set modern engineering standards provide handson technical and people leadership and drive the shift toward reusable productfocused data assets for analytics and AI.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead coach and linemanage data engineers developing capability and a highperformance culture.
- Provide senior engineering leadership across cloud and onprem platforms to ensure scalable secure reliable solutions.
- Maintain engineering best practices across patterns code quality testing observability documentation and data integrity.
- Design and deliver data platforms pipelines infrastructure and tooling using modern automated engineering approaches.
- Reduce technical debt through remediation refactoring and legacy technology migration.
- Own endtoend delivery across timelines quality resources risks and thirdparty vendors.
- Collaborate with Architecture Governance Product Data Science and Insights teams to ensure strategic and technical alignment.
- Ensure all solutions meet required security governance regulatory and operational standards.
- Communicate decisions options risks and progress clearly to senior stakeholders and nontechnical partners.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Proven experience building modern data platforms and pipelines from scratch.
- Strong background transforming legacy/onprem estates into cloud or hybrid architectures.
- Deep expertise in Azure data services (ADLS Synapse/SQL Databricks ADF/Fabric Event Hub/Kafka Functions Key Vault Purview).
- Solid understanding of data platform engineering (storage/compute patterns streaming/batch APIs orchestration schema design performance tuning and reliability).
- Demonstrated leadership in engineering or platform management roles.
- Strong grounding in data governance privacy lineage and data quality.
- Evidenced ownership of technical quality and technicaldebt remediation.
The successful candidate can expect:
- Generous Bonus
- Car Allowance
- Private Medical Insurance
- DC pension scheme
- Life medical and income Insurance
- Access to remote GP nutrition coaching personal training unlimited mental health support and medical 2nd opinion
- 27 days holiday with the option to buy and sell holiday up to 5 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Salary sacrifice electric car scheme with free on site electric chargers.#LI-VI1 #LI-Hybrid
Why join us
At Unum weve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow and can see their ambitions coming to life.
As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions.
If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process please send a request to .
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
Company:
Unum UKRequired Experience:
Manager