Data Engineering Manager

Our client is a global professional services and technology consultancy. Data Engineering Manager

Location:

Glasgow Salary:
Competitive Salary  Package (dependent on experience) Our client is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person.

Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, our client is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too. “Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of our client:
We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, our CEO As a team:
Working across industry groups, our Data & AI team combines deep technology, business and industry expertise to design and deliver some of the largest, most challenging and highest profile data and AI solutions in the world. We operate across Financial Services, Resources, Products, Communications and Health & Public Services. Our practice is built around three strategic capabilities: AI Platform Engineering, AI Pipelines, and Data Products.

Together these capabilities cover the full spectrum of modern data and AI delivery — from the cloud infrastructure and platforms that underpin AI workloads, through the pipelines that move and transform data at scale, to the data products that turn engineering effort into lasting business value. As a Data Engineering Manager, you will lead delivery of AI-powered data engineering programmes — owning the full journey from pipeline design and build through to the data products that serve our clients' AI, analytics and business needs.

We operate in an AI-augmented delivery model where AI-assisted pipeline development, automated data quality and agentic data operations are current practice, and our managers are expected to lead teams in adopting and embedding these approaches as standard. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As a Data Engineering Manager, you will:
Lead delivery of cloud-scale data engineering programmes and platform migration initiatives across Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, AWS and GCP Drive AI-assisted pipeline development as standard engineering practice — setting team norms around the use of GenAI tooling for pipeline build, testing and documentation, and governing the quality of AI-generated outputs Design and implement data quality, schema drift detection and lineage capabilities using AI-driven automation — moving teams away from manual quality gates towards intelligent, self-describing pipelines Own data product design and quality end to end — from consumption requirements through data modelling, pipeline delivery and ongoing governance — ensuring what the team builds is fit for business and AI consumption, not just technically correct Lead ETL/ELT modernisation and cloud migration programmes, applying AI-assisted approaches to accelerate…