Engineering Manager - Data

Primer Technologies, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United Kingdom

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As the Engineering Manager - Data, you will lead the Data team as its Engineering Manager owning delivery, growth, and technical direction, reporting into a Senior Engineering Manager and partnering closely with Product and other teams across engineering, finance and revenue operations.
• You will own delivery end to end across the data platform: streaming, warehousing, modelling, and the pipelines in between, holding the team to a consistent bar on quality and pace without becoming the bottleneck yourself.
• Lead, coach, and grow the engineers on your team: career development, feedback, performance, and building an environment where the team does its best work.
• Stay technically credible. You will review designs for real-time streaming systems, evaluate trade-offs in warehouse architecture and data modelling, and tell when a pipeline design won't survive contact with systems at production scale.
• Treat data consumers as first-class users. Product teams, finance, and merchants all build on what your team ships, so you will push for reliable contracts, documented models, and changes that don't silently break downstream.
• Take on the ML function as it grows. You will own its delivery and people leadership, and shape how ML capability develops inside Primer's data organisation.
• Partner with Product and engineering leadership to shape a realistic roadmap, surface risks early, and protect a small team from over-commitment.
• Drive operational excellence. Data quality monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems that close out their follow-ups, on systems the whole company depends on.
• Own the cost side of the platform. Data infrastructure is one of the fastest-growing line items as Primer scales, so you will embed FinOps practices into how the team works - cost visibility, accountability for what you and the product teams run, and drive decisions that weigh spend alongside performance.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience managing a team of data engineers, with accountability for their delivery, growth, and performance.
• Enough technical depth to be respected by strong engineers. You can interrogate a streaming architecture, spot the wrong trade-off in a data model, and recognise when the information you've been given doesn't add up.
• A background building and operating data platforms at scale - medallion architecture, event streaming, warehousing, transformation frameworks like DBT, ideally where the data directly drives revenue or customer-facing data products.
• Experience coaching engineers across a wide seniority range, including retaining and stretching Staff-level talent.
• Exposure to machine learning. You've directly managed or supported ML engineers, understand the lifecycle of models in production, and can credibly lead an ML function as it grows.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive share options.
• Uncapped holiday, with 25 days minimum to be taken.
• Co-working space access across major cities.
• Workations & Company Retreat.
• The best equipment for your role.
• £500 towards your home office setup.
• Generous learning budget.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• A broad set of additional perks and benefits (depending on location).

🏠 Location

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• Country_code: GB
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Skills & Technologies

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Kafka

Remote

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About Primer Technologies, Inc.

Primer Technologies is a San Francisco–based fintech infrastructure firm that provides a unified payments platform for online merchants. It offers low-code integrations with global processors, fraud tools, analytics, and checkout orchestration through a single API. The company helps e-commerce businesses add, optimize, and route payments across providers without custom backend work, improving authorization rates and reducing development time. Founded in 2020, Primer serves mid-market to enterprise retailers across Europe, North America, and Asia.

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