Data Engineering Team Lead

Permanent

Location: Manchester (2 days per week onsite)

Salary: £70,000-£85,000 dependent on experience

About the Client

Our client renowned for its commitment to innovation, scalability, and cutting-edge technology. Operating at the forefront of digital solutions, they leverage bespoke and third-party systems to drive efficiency and enhance business operations. Within the department in which this role sits, they are dedicated to developing and integrating advanced technology solutions, including AI-driven products, to support growth and sustainability. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation that prioritises technological evolution and continuous improvement.

How you’ll spend your day

As the Regulatory Data Team Leader, you'll lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for delivering high-quality regulatory reporting solutions that support a complex, business-critical technology platform.

Working within a high-performing Data Engineering function, you'll oversee the development of software and reporting systems that deliver jurisdiction-specific reporting to international regulators. These solutions operate within a high-throughput, distributed architecture and are built to exceptionally high standards, where reliability, accuracy and performance are paramount. Alongside leading the team, you'll help drive the adoption of AI-powered tooling, improve delivery practices and ensure reporting solutions continue to meet evolving regulatory requirements.

You'll be responsible for:

• Leading, mentoring and developing a geographically distributed software delivery team, supporting both performance and career development.
• Owning the successful delivery of regulatory reporting software, ensuring solutions are accurate, reliable and fully compliant with governance standards.
• Working alongside technical leadership to introduce AI-powered tools and automation that enhance workflows, reporting capabilities and delivery efficiency.
• Collaborating closely with Finance, Compliance and wider business stakeholders to prioritise work and deliver against business objectives.
• Overseeing delivery risks, issues and cross-team dependencies, ensuring projects remain on track and obstacles are addressed proactively.
• Promoting best practices across software design, governance and engineering processes to improve quality, consistency and efficiency.
• Supporting the delivery of high-performance reporting solutions across distributed applications, batch processing platforms, REST and SOAP API integrations, web services and web-based applications.
• Building a collaborative and supportive team culture that encourages continuous improvement, innovation and knowledge sharing.
• Providing regular delivery updates to senior stakeholders, escalating risks where required and ensuring project milestones are achieved.
• Developing a thorough understanding of existing regulatory reporting platforms and identifying opportunities to modernise and improve them.

What you’ll bring to this role

We're looking for an experienced technical leader who combines strong cloud and data engineering expertise with proven people management skills. You'll be comfortable leading engineering teams in fast-paced, highly regulated environments while collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to deliver robust, business-critical reporting solutions.

You'll ideally have:

• Proven experience leading and developing software delivery or engineering teams, including geographically distributed teams.
• Strong commercial experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and BigQuery, alongside a solid understanding of modern cloud architecture.
• Experience using AI tools to improve development workflows, automation and reporting capabilities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical teams, Finance, Compliance and wider business functions.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise competing workloads and deliver high-quality outcomes in fast-paced environments.
• Experience driving collaboration, gathering requirements and ensuring solutions are delivered within agreed timescales.
• Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate teams and foster a positive, delivery-focused culture.
• Commercial database development experience using BigQuery, GoogleSQL, T-SQL or SQL Server, including query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Experience designing and delivering software solutions within cloud-based architectures would be highly advantageous.
• Previous experience within highly regulated industries, such as financial services, gaming or other compliance-driven environments, would be beneficial.

Perks & Benefits:

• Performance-Based Bonus
• Car Allowance
• Pension Scheme
• Hybrid Working
  • Minimum 2 days per week in the office, with flexibility on which days.
• Flexible Working Hours
  • 40-hour workweek with flexibility in how hours are structured.
• Generous Annual Leave
  • 25 days holiday + your birthday off, plus bank holidays. Option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days.
• Free Gym Membership

What happens next?

One of our Recruitment Consultants will be in touch and inform you if you’ve been successful to the next stage of the process or not, which is a qualification call where we will tell you more about the role and the client, and understand more about you, your experience and career aspirations.

Should we both wish to proceed, we will submit your details to the client and be in touch regarding the outcome and any further steps.

The interview process for this client consists of:

1st Stage – 30minute MS Teams interview

2nd Stage – Face to Face Interview with the hiring manager

3rd Stage – Final Stage Coffee Chat with Head of Department

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. As an employment agency for permanent and contract hires, we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from underrepresented groups to drive innovation and equality within the workplace.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments please let us know so we can accommodate for any interactions with us at Biometric Talent, but also inform the client to ensure reasonable adjustments are made to allow for a fair and equitable process.