Engineering Manager - Data Platform
About this role
Lead and develop a team of six experienced engineers, with a strong focus on coaching, career development, and creating an environment where people do the best work of their careers. Take accountability for the team's delivery, ensuring clear priorities, healthy execution, and measurable outcomes. Partner with product and stakeholders to shape the roadmap for event delivery and privacy infrastructure. Drive technical strategy and architectural decisions for systems operating at Spotify scale. Build a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement. Collaborate across Data Platform and the wider engineering organisation to align on shared goals and dependencies. Manage on-call health, operational excellence, and reliability for the team's services. Actively participate in hiring, onboarding, and growing the team's capabilities. You have experience managing teams of senior/experienced engineers and understand that people leadership is your primary craft, not a side responsibility. You have a track record of investing in engineers' careers - running meaningful development conversations, helping people grow into new roles, and creating clarity around expectations and progression. You're comfortable with distributed data systems, event-driven architectures, or data infrastructure at scale - you don't need to write the code, but you can engage credibly in technical discussions and unblock your team. You hold yourself and your team accountable for outcomes, not just activity. You communicate clearly and build trust across functions and time zones. You've worked with distributed teams and understand how to create cohesion and inclusion when people aren't in the same room. You're excited about the potential of AI and LLMs to transform how engineering teams work - whether that's accelerating development workflows, rethinking how data infrastructure is built and operated, or helping your team adopt AI-assisted tooling effectively. This role is based in London. We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.
What this role is, and what else it is called
Employers in London advertise this kind of work as Engineering Manager, IT Manager, Chief Technology Officer and Director of Engineering too, so it is worth searching more than one wording. It is a lead or principal IT Leadership & Management role in London, advertised as fully remote, so it is open to candidates working from home.
About hiring at Lifeatspotify
Lifeatspotify has 14 other live technology roles on its careers page, across Software Engineering, Data, AI & Machine Learning and IT Leadership & Management. Of those, 33% are advertised as fully remote and 67% as hybrid. Elsewhere in its adverts Lifeatspotify asks for SQL, Machine Learning, PyTorch, TypeScript and React. See all Lifeatspotify roles, salaries and stack.
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