Engineering Manager

Job Description

Join our team and you’ll be responsible for leading our Data Platform team, driving delivery excellence, shaping platform capabilities and enabling data, analytics and AI-driven solutions across the business.
Working in the Data Platform Engineering department, you will collaborate closely with Product, Data and Engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable and secure platform services while improving engineering effectiveness through modern practices, including AI and automation.
You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities:  

• Drive delivery excellence by establishing clear planning, prioritisation and execution practices that ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Collaborate across the business with Product, Data, Architecture and Engineering teams to translate business needs into impactful platform solutions.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding architecture and design decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability and security.
• Enhance engineering effectiveness by championing AI-assisted development, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Build and grow high-performing teams through coaching, mentoring and fostering an inclusive, supportive engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, with a track record of improving delivery and team performance.
• Strong background in data platforms, platform engineering or cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS).
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures and streaming technologies (e.g. Kafka).
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams.
• A balanced approach to technical leadership and people development, with a passion for building scalable platforms and enabling teams to succeed.

Additional Information

We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays   
• Private medical and dental healthcare   
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)   
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme 
• Life Assurance Cover  
• Cycle to work scheme   
• Hybrid working model  (3 days working from the office)
• Volunteering days   
• and you can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!   

Our commitment 

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.  

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:  

• Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme 
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award 
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work 
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024 
• Stonewall: Gold Award 
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)