Analytical Engineering Manager

About the Role

We are seeking an Analytical Engineering Manager to lead, scale, and mature our Analytical Engineering capability. Operating on a level of technical and strategic authority alongside our other Data leadership roles you will co-author our data platform architecture and drive the long-term data strategy across the business.

This role is highly visible and strategic, combining elite data platform engineering practices with direct talent design. You will actively shape the resources, skills, and profiles required to deliver high-performance analytical engineering, ensuring our engineers are perfectly equipped whether working within the core data function or deployed into cross-functional Pods to execute defined pieces of work.

This isn't a traditional downstream analytics management role. You will have full technical sovereignty over how data is processed, modelled, and consumed across the entire enterprise, with the executive backing to shape your team and its capabilities your way. Standing side-by-side with Data leadership, you will co-author a modern, AI-enabled, real-time data fabric, ensuring our engineers carry elite data practices into every cross-functional Pod they support.

• Architectural Parity & Technical Leadership:
  Serve as the primary technical authority for the Analytical Engineering function. Partner as an equal peer within Data leadership to co-author company-wide data architecture decisions, tool selection, and global data platform governance patterns.

• End-to-End Post-Bronze Ownership:
  Take full technical accountability for the data transformation lifecycle. This spans the entire medallion journey—cleansing data out of the Bronze layer, engineering robust Silver and Gold multi-use layers, establishing the enterprise semantic layer, and optimising the final presentation within consumption workbenches (e.g., Hex).
  
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  This role is exclusive of the initial data acquisition and extraction into the Bronze layer.

• Resource, Pod & Capability Shaping:
  Act as the chief architect of the Analytical Engineering talent blueprint. Proactively define, develop, and forecast the resource requirements, skill matrices, and profiles needed to deliver analytics capability across the organisation. You will establish the standards that ensure our engineers maintain engineering excellence when embedded into delivery-focused Pods across various business areas.

• Semantic Enablement for AI:
  Lead the design of advanced metric graphs and semantic layer protocols specifically optimised to safely feed generative AI applications, text-to-SQL interfaces, and natural language analytics engines (leveraging tools like Claude and Gemini).

• Engineering Rigour & Cost Optimisation:
  Champion the embedding of standard software engineering practices into analytics (CI/CD, automated testing, version control). Jointly own lakehouse compute efficiencies by auditing transformation query performance and dbt build strategies to minimise platform overheads.

• People Development:
  Line‑manage, mentor, and inspire a growing team of analytical engineers. Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture centred around data quality, metric single‑source‑of‑truth, and continuous learning.

• Technical & Pod Leadership:
  Extensive experience leading, scaling, and developing high‑performing data or analytical engineering teams, with a solid understanding of managing engineering talent deployed across matrixed or Pod‑based operating models.

• Platform Architectural Mastery:
  Deep knowledge of lakehouse and medallion data platform design patterns, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise‑grade semantic models providing the robust layer between underlying data and modern analytical workbenches (e.g., Hex).

• Strategic Talent Design:
  Demonstrated ability to map out organisational capabilities, identify technical skill gaps, and shape the resource profiles required to deliver modern analytical engineering.

• Modern Analytics Stack Expertise:
  Expert‑level SQL and deep mastery of dbt (data…