[Hiring] Data Platform Engineering Manager @RBS

Role Description

Join us as an Engineering Manager, identifying and solving engineering-wide challenges as they appear. We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact while investing in NatWest Boxed’s overall platform architecture and ensuring the security of our systems and working practices.

As a Data Platform Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of our data ecosystem, guiding a high-performing engineering squad to architect and maintain a robust platform that empowers every business unit to effectively ingest, manage, and leverage data for varied strategic requirements.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Leading, mentoring, and growing a high-performing team of data engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership.
• Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our data platform, focusing on self-service, reliability, scalability, security, and user experience.
• Critically evaluating architectural proposals and technical designs from the team, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, platform vision, architecture, and security.
• Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for self-service platform engineering, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs.
• Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Analytics, Operations, and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that enables all groups to easily manage data within defined standards.
• Driving projects from inception to delivery, taking into consideration the needs of your customers whilst fitting into the wider Platform strategy.
• Engaging with clients and vendors on integration patterns and implementation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing data mesh architectures.
• Ability to connect technical architecture decisions directly to business outcomes, understanding the cost, risk, and revenue impact.
• Experience with FinTech / Banking.
• Hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.

Requirements

• A strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), event streaming (Kafka), and data-mesh tooling.
• Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), data streaming platforms, data transformation, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry), and self-service platform design.
• A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems in a regulated environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences internal and external.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

26/06/2026

Ways of Working

Remote First