Data Engineering Manager

AnaVation LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading gift experience provider in the UK is seeking a Data Engineering Manager to lead their Data Engineering team. This role involves shaping data strategy and architecture while ensuring data is effectively governed and accessible. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with people leadership, mentoring engineers, and collaborating closely with business stakeholders. The position requires experience in modern data platforms and key technologies like Snowflake, with a flexible hybrid working arrangement.

Benefits

Competitive Pay & Bonuses

Private healthcare

Flexible working and generous holidays

Learning allowances for career growth

Volunteering days and charity support

Qualifications

• Experience mentoring and developing engineers.
• Ability to collaborate closely with non-technical stakeholders.
• Passionate about data and best practices in analytics engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining modern data platforms using Snowflake.
• Familiar with ETL tooling for reliable data flows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of data engineers.
• Set technical direction across data architecture.
• Build and maintain resilient data pipelines.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and GDPR compliance.
• Support and grow engineers through mentoring.

Skills

Mentoring and developing engineers

Data management and governance

Ownership of end-to-end data processes

Collaboration with non-technical stakeholders

Building modern data platforms

Experience with ETL tooling

Problem-solving with data

Tools

Snowflake

C# .NET

Python

Azure

Terraform

Airflow

DBT

Fivetran

Job description

Data Engineering Manager | 📍 London – Hybrid (2 days in office) | 💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits

Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK’s leading gift experience provider. We turn special moments into extra‑special memories with over 4,000 experiences, from spa days and skydives to gourmet treats and once‑in‑a‑lifetime adventures.

About the Role

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. This role sits at the heart of how we use data to understand our business and serve our customers better. You’ll lead a team of data engineers responsible for building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and secure data platform that ensures the right data is available to the right people, at the right time.

You’ll combine people leadership with hands‑on technical oversight, shaping our data strategy, data models, and data architecture while improving data quality and governance. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you’ll design and deliver well‑structured, trusted data that underpins reporting, analytics, and confident, data‑driven decision‑making.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of data engineers working on our core data platform.
• Set technical direction and strategy across data infrastructure, architecture, and modelling, ensuring we build the right solutions in the right way.
• Own and evolve our data models and 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, modeling, 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 solutions.
• Ensure data quality, governance, security, and GDPR compliance across the platform.
• Support and grow engineers through mentoring, clear objectives, and our engineering growth framework.

About You

• You have experience mentoring and developing engineers, and working closely with non‑technical stakeholders.
• You’re either an experienced manager or ready to take the next step into a people leadership role.
• You enjoy taking ownership end‑to‑end, from models and architecture through to pipelines, infrastructure, and production support.
• You’re passionate about data and apply best practices to analytics engineering, modelling, and platform design.
• You have experience building and maintaining modern data platforms, ideally using Snowflake.
• You’ve worked with modern ETL tooling and understand how to build reliable, automated data flows.
• You’re curious about the business context behind the data and enjoy collaborating to solve real problems.

Our Tech Environment

• C# .NET and Python
• Azure and Terraform
• Orchestration tooling (e.g. Airflow)
• Snowflake
• DBT
• Fivetran

How We Get There

• We focus on building simple, scalable solutions with clear data models and thoughtful architecture.
• We collaborate openly across engineering, data, and product teams.
• We encourage ownership, continuous learning, and thoughtful experimentation.
• We balance technical excellence with real business impact.

What’s in it for you?

We believe in empowering our team to do their best work. Enjoy:

• 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 (2 days a week in the office), and international opportunities.
• Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching, and development programs.
• Recognition & Giving Back: Regular awards, charity support, length‑of‑service awards, and volunteering days.

Our Ways of Working

We trust you to do what’s right, providing flexibility to balance work and life. We believe in giving you permission to innovate and focus on delivering meaningful results. Most of our team works from the London office 2 days per week as part of our hybrid approach.

Moonpig Group's Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity

We celebrate what makes each of us unique, including background, working style, and what matters most to us. We support employees with flexible hours, neurodiversity considerations, and more. Our employee‑led groups—LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity, EMBRACE—help ensure every voice is heard. If you have a preferred name or pronoun, please share them on your application. Let us know of any reasonable adjustments you need throughout the interview process.