Engineering Manager (data & Platform)

Santander UK

Boadilla Del Monte, Spain
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Lead data & platform engineering teams
Define, drive, and execute business vision
Evolve engineering practices
** Santander UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its Data & Platform teams in Boadilla Del Monte, Spain. The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers to develop high-performing software solutions, focusing on collaboration and technical excellence. **

Job Summary

  • Manage a world-class team of typically 14 Engineers across Data & Platforms to define, drive and execute on the business vision.
  • As a manager you will develop a team of highly motivated and talented individuals that can collaborate effectively with people in a variety of roles across the organisation.
  • We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Data & Platform engineering teams.

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** Santander UK is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager for its Data & Platform teams in Boadilla Del Monte, Spain. The ideal candidate will lead a team of engineers to develop high-performing software solutions, focusing on collaboration and technical excellence. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Lead Data & Platform engineering teams
  • Define, drive, and execute business vision
  • Evolve engineering practices
  • Develop highly motivated individuals
  • Facilitate design, build, and support of software
  • Manage development life cycle
  • Partner with Product Managers on roadmaps
  • Assess technical feasibility
  • Instil software development best practices
  • Monitor and improve team performance using metrics
  • Agile and/or lean software delivery
  • Deliver software in fast-paced culture
  • Software engineering experience (programmer)
  • Experience with Reactive frontend, Java/Kotlin microservices
  • Experience with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka
  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Self-motivated and self-accountable
  • Concise and effective communication (English)
  • Build collaborative and trusting team culture
  • Ownership of technical problems
  • Deliver business value and use data
  • Build team culture with focus on collaboration

Nice-to-have

  • Fintech / B2B2C experience
  • Project management experience

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field or equivalent work experience
  • Running agile and/or lean software delivery processes
  • Disambiguating and assessing technological feasibility
  • Delivering software in a fast-paced working culture
  • Determining minimum appropriate scope of work
  • Software engineering experience as a programmer, preferably up to a senior level
  • Experience working with the fundamentals of our tech stack: Reactive frontend, Java and Kotlin micro services with RESTful APIs, Containerisation with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, event-driven architecture with Kafka, Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

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