
Stepstone UK
Engineering Manager Data Platform
Job Description
Salary: £41,000 - 81,000 per year
Requirements:- We are looking for proven experience as an Engineering Manager, with a track record of improving delivery and team performance.
- We need a strong background in data platforms, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
- We value experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- We require excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams.
- We are looking for a balanced approach to technical leadership and people development, with a passion for building scalable platforms and enabling teams to succeed.
- We lead our Data Platform team and drive delivery excellence.
- We establish clear planning, prioritisation and execution practices to ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes.
- We collaborate across Product, Data, Architecture and Engineering teams to translate business needs into impactful platform solutions.
- We provide technical leadership by guiding architecture and design decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability and security.
- We champion AI-assisted development, automation and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance engineering effectiveness.
- We build and grow high-performing teams through coaching, mentoring and fostering an inclusive, supportive engineering culture.
- AI
- AWS
- Cloud
- Kafka
- Security
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We are The Stepstone Group, with a simple but important mission: the right job for everyone. Using our data, platform and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in a fair and equitable way. We operate across 20+ brands in 30 countries and are reshaping the labour market to become the worlds leading job platform. You will join our Data Platform Engineering department, working in a hybrid model with 3 days in the office. We care about life outside work and offer 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, private medical and dental healthcare, matching pension contributions, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance cover, cycle-to-work scheme, volunteering days, and office dog days on Mondays and Fridays. We are committed to equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion, and have been recognised with multiple awards for our workplace culture and sustainability efforts.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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£60,000
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This salary is 2% above the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
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