Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager – Application Platform Team

dunnhumby is a global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world’s most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Application Platform Team. The role combines strong technical expertise with people leadership to deliver high‑quality, production‑ready solutions. You’ll bring hands‑on experience across modern engineering stacks, work closely with platform, product, and data teams, and support engineers at different levels to foster a collaborative, high‑performing environment while ensuring best practices around code quality, reliability, and delivery.

• Guide and lead engineering teams to deliver scalable, production‑ready systems.
• Collaborate closely with platform, product, and data teams to define and ship solutions.
• Drive and uphold best practices in code quality, reliability, and delivery.
• Mentor and develop engineers across experience levels, fostering a collaborative culture.
• Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines, observability, and multi‑cloud readiness.
• Manage cross‑functional engagement and support Agile practices.

• Comfortable with cloud‑native environments such as Kubernetes, Helm, Git Ops.
• Proven experience shipping production code, ideally in cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge (Git Lab CI, Git Hub Actions, Octopus, etc.).
• Prioritises code quality, testing, and standards.
• Familiar with Kubernetes patterns, ArgoCD, secrets management, multi‑cloud (GCP/Azure).
• Good understanding of observability and what “good” looks like in production.
• Experience managing engineers and supporting team growth.
• Strong communicator able to engage technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Encourages knowledge sharing through pairing, documentation, etc.

You’ll enjoy a comprehensive rewards package and personalized flexibility, including thoughtful perks such as flexible working hours and your birthday off.

We invest in cutting‑edge technology while maintaining a nimble, small‑business feel that encourages experimentation and learning.

We are proud of our diversity and committed to making dunnhumby an inclusive place to work, with employee networks for gender, sexual orientation, multiculturalism, mental health, wellbeing, and family.