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15gifts is a private equity backed, Brighton-based company, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture that celebrates brilliance, encourages ownership, and champions continuous innovation.Our products empower customers of leading global brands like Verizon, Vodafone, O2, Three and Tesco Mobile to make confident decisions online. Building on our 12 years as market leader in guided e-commerce, were now entering an exciting new growth stage. Were on a mission to create a virtual sales agent that performs better than a human sales agent.Were looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead a small team in building a key part of our data infrastructure - evolving and scaling the ingestion of customer product catalogues into our internal systems. This role blends people management, individual contribution, and technology leadership.People Management: You will lead and mentor a small team of Data Engineers, fostering a high-performance culture by guiding their professional growth and ensuring effective communication within the team and with stakeholders. Your strong interpersonal skills will enable you to bring out the best in your team members.Individual Contribution: As a confident individual contributor, you will take ownership of project briefs, effectively elicit requirements, and design robust architectural plans. You will also champion the importance of thorough testing and ensure alignment with stakeholder expectations throughout the development process.Technology Leadership: You will guide strategic decision-making regarding technology and architecture, ensuring solutions are scalable, cost-effective, and flexible enough to meet diverse customer needs. This involves a strong understanding of engineering trade-offs, collaborative design, and proactive roadmap planning, with an openness to exploring innovative solutions like generative AI where appropriate.We work with an Airflow / AWS / Fivetran / Snowflake / Looker stack and typically use Python and Docker in our pipelines. Youll need to be highly proficient in these or similar tools and comfortable navigating a modern data ecosystem.The person were looking forPassionate about designing and delivering solutions to complex problemsCurious with a desire for continuous learningFriendly, with a collaborative and pragmatic approach to problem-solvingExcellent communicator across technical and non-technical audiencesSelf-motivated and self-managing, with great organisational skillsComfortable expressing your views and listening to others, as the situation requiresExperienced and passionate about ELT projects, data modelling, and big dataExcited to lead and develop our data engineering talentYoull be responsible forManaging, mentoring, and supporting a team of data engineersServing as a subject matter expertGathering use cases and requirements from stakeholders across the businessTranslating use cases, pain points and success criteria into technical requirementsCollaboratively developing and agreeing on architecture plans and data flowsBuilding and maintaining high-quality data pipelines and self-service toolsWriting robust, automated tests to ensure data integrity and qualityPromoting data governance through documentation, observability and controlsTroubleshooting, resolving issues, maintaining operational stability and responding to incidentsChampioning tools, standards, and best practices within the teamSkills and experience Proven experience managing and mentoring data engineering teamsStrong commercial experience in a senior data engineering roleComfortable owning and delivering technical projects end-to-endDeep understanding of the full data lifecycle and ELT patternsComfortable evaluating both business and technical requirementsSkilled at working with large datasets and optimising data flowsExperience with Airflow, AWS, Fivetran, Snowflake, Docker (or similar)Strong in Python, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS or comparable)Experienced in handling real-time data pipelinesExperienced in evolving data pipelines over time to meet new business requirementsDiversity is incredibly important to us. Research shows how people from marginalised groups are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every requirement. However, these accountabilities are a guide, and, if you feel like this role could be for you and you dont meet every criteria, please do apply. Wed love to hear from you.Benefits includeMedicash healthcare scheme (reclaim costs for dental, physiotherapy, osteopathy and optical care)Life Insurance scheme25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off (rising to 28 after 3 consecutive years with the business & 30 after 5 years)Employee Assistance Programme (confidential counselling)Enhanced parental leave and payReferral programme