Join us as an Engineering Manager
- Identifying and solve engineering-wide challenges as they appear
- We’ll look to you to deliver exceptionally high-quality work and empower engineers to make a big impact
- Investing in NatWest Boxed’s overall platform architecture
- Ensuring the security of our systems and working practice
As a Data Platform Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of our data ecosystem, guiding a high-performing engineering squad to architect and maintain a robust platform that empowers every business unit to effectively ingest, manage, and leverage data for varied strategic requirements.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Leading, mentoring and growing a high-performing team of data engineers, shaping our hiring strategy and fostering a culture of innovation and ownership
- Defining the strategic vision and technical roadmap for our data platform, focusing on self-service, reliability, scalability, security, and user experience
- Critically evaluating architectural proposals and technical designs from the team, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals, platform vision, architecture and security
- Championing engineering excellence by embedding best practices for self-service platform engineering, CI/CD, and SRE, while owning the operational health of our platform through SLOs
- Collaborating with Product, Architecture, Analytics, Operations and Security teams to deliver a secure, robust platform that enables all groups to easily manage data within defined standards
- Driving projects from inception to delivery, taking into consideration the needs of your customers whilst fitting into the wider Platform strategy
- Engaging with clients and vendors on integration patterns and implementation
We’re looking for someone with proven experience leading, managing, and scaling high-performing data mesh architectures as well as the ability to connect technical architecture decisions directly to business outcomes; you understand the cost, risk, and revenue impact. It would be great if you had experience with FinTech / Banking and hands-on experience with programming languages such as Python or Go.
You’ll also have:
- A strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP), event streaming (Kafka), and data-mesh tooling
- Deep understanding of modern platform engineering principles, including infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Crossplane), data streaming platforms, data transformation, observability (e.g., Datadog, OpenTelemetry) and self-service platform design
- A strategic mindset with experience designing, building, and operating scalable, distributed systems in a regulated environment
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences internal and external
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
26/06/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling data mesh architectures
- Ability to connect technical architecture decisions to business outcomes (cost, risk, revenue)
- Hands-on experience with Python or Go
- Strong technical background in cloud-native technologies (AWS, GCP)
- Experience with event streaming platforms (Kafka)
- Experience with data-mesh tooling
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Crossplane)
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
- Experience embedding CI/CD, SRE practices and owning platform SLOs/operational health
- Experience designing, building, and operating scalable distributed systems in regulated environments
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience in FinTech / Banking
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
