Director

You’ll lead and support an engineering organisation of ~30 people, shaping a platform that operates as a product – reliable, well‑governed, and delightful to use.

Lead with impact

• Partner with us to set a clear vision and roadmap for cloud data and analytics products (e.g., Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS), aligned to business value.
• Champion the creation of digital, developer-centric platform-as-a-product which provide opinionated self‑service capabilities.
• Prioritise customer outcomes and a product mindset: clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and continuous feedback loops.
• Grow an inclusive, high‑performing engineering team; coach leaders, hire thoughtfully, create a culture of learning and psychological safety.
• Create a coherent, coordinated engineering organisation across BI, data management, analytics and data governance - driving one way of working and shared standards.

Design for trust, reliability, and scale

• Embed governance, security, privacy, and compliance from the start using tools such as Microsoft Purview and Collibra.
• Simplify data ingestion from diverse sources with resilient real‑time and batch pipelines.
• Define and uphold standards for reliability, disaster recovery, and data quality,minimising data loss and downtime.

Enable great engineering

• Uplift engineering craft and consistency: modern software engineering practices, well‑defined interfaces/APIs, automated testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Drive platform reuse over one‑off delivery: shared building blocks, reference implementations, and inner‑sourcing where it reduces cost and improves quality.
• Promote practical, modern data engineering practices (e.g., Python, Spark, dbt) through architecture reviews, coaching, and automation.
• Measure what matters: use OKRs, KPIs, and service metrics (SLOs/SLIs) to guide decisions and improve outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with partner teams in Sales, Operations, Finance, Risk, and HR,and with suppliers,so delivery is predictable and trusted.
• Build a high‑performance delivery culture: predictable planning, clear ownership, fast feedback, and transparency on delivery, reliability, and customer impact.

About you

• You’ve led senior engineering teams to deliver large‑scale cloud data platforms with clear business impact.
• You’re comfortable making and explaining architectural decisions, and you create space for others to contribute.
• You bring depth in at least some of: Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, AWS, Spark, Python, dbt,and you learn new tools when they’re the right fit.
• You care deeply about data security, privacy, and governance, and you’ve used tools like Purview or Collibra (or similar) to make this real.
• You communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical audiences, turning complex topics into practical, inclusive narratives.
• You’ve led geographically distributed teams, improving team effectiveness, engineering standards, and delivery outcomes.
• You’ve set reliability standards and supported both analytical and operational workloads at scale.

Why join us

• Real impact: Your leadership will shape how the company uses data every day.
• Growth: You’ll develop leaders, set strategy, and still stay close to the engineering craft.
• Supportive culture: Flexible working, inclusive practices, and time for learning are part of how we operate.
• Visibility: You’ll collaborate across business and technology, influencing decisions at senior levels.