IT Data Platform Engineering Manager

Overview We are looking for an IT Data Platform Engineering Manager to join our team in our Aberdeen office, London office or Remote basis on a full-time permanent contract. The IT Data Platform Engineering Manager is a management role responsible for the leadership, delivery, and continuous improvement of data platform engineering services across Subsea7. The role holder manages a team of experienced data professionals - including data engineers, data architects, developers, and analytics specialists - who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments, and is accountable for the strategy implementation, operational performance, and evolution of the company’s Common Data Environment (CDE) built on Azure and Databricks. Reporting to the Technical Director, the role holder provides technical direction and people management across the data platform team, ensuring that data engineering, data architecture, data integration, and analytics enablement capabilities are aligned to business objectives and delivered to a high standard. The role leads the development and evolution of AI-enablement capabilities delivered through the enterprise data platform, ensuring appropriate architecture, data readiness, platform services, and operational standards are in place to support the adoption of AI technologies across the organisation. Working closely with other IT disciplines, the role ensures AI-enabled solutions can effectively utilise enterprise data assets while maintaining alignment with established data governance, security, and enterprise architecture standards. The role is accountable for ensuring the data platform continues to evolve to support emerging AI requirements through modern data platform capabilities and services. What will you be doing? •    Lead and manage the Data Platform Engineering team, including data engineers, data architects, developers, and analytics specialists, providing coaching, development, and performance management •    Own the operational delivery and continuous improvement of the Common Data Environment (CDE) platform, built on Azure and Databricks, ensuring availability, performance, and scalability •    Define, maintain, and execute the Data Platform and AI Enablement roadmap, ensuring platform capabilities evolve to support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and future AI-enabled business services •    Provide technical direction and design authority for data engineering solutions, including data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data integration, lakehouse architecture, real-time data streaming, and AI-ready data architectures •    Oversee the development and operation of data platform capabilities that support AI workloads, including knowledge retrieval services, semantic models, data products, and platform integration capabilities •    Manage relationships with third-party data engineering partners, vendors, and managed service providers, including service reviews and delivery assurance •    Oversee data architecture standards, enterprise data modelling, and data domain design to ensure consistency, scalability, and alignment with enterprise architecture •    Coordinate with Cyber Security & Compliance to ensure data security, privacy, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR) across all data platform services •    Champion DataOps and CI/CD practices for data, improving automation, reliability, and engineering excellence across the data lifecycle •    Support the delivery of self-service business intelligence and self-service data analytics capabilities, enabling business users to access and leverage governed data •    Coordinate with Cloud & Infrastructure, Platforms & Collaboration, Enterprise Applications, and Strategic Engagement teams to ensure integrated data services and aligned delivery •    Represent the Data Platform Engineering function in IT leadership forums, steering committees, and cross-functional data governance bodies •    Work with stakeholders outside of the immediate team regarding data policies, standards, and best practices, ensuring alignment with the company’s data strategy What experience would we like you to have? Please note, if you don’t tick all the boxes below but feel you have some of the relevant skills and experience we’re looking for, please do consider applying. We would encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience. •    Significant experience in data engineering and data platform technologies, with deep  knowledge in Azure data services (e.g., Databricks, Data Factory, Data Lake, Synapse) and lakehouse architectures •    Proven track record of leading and managing technical data teams, including coaching, development, and performance management of data engineers and architects •    Solid knowledge of data architecture principles, enterprise data modelling, data integration patterns (ETL/ELT), and data pipeline orchestration •    Experience defining and executing data platform strategy an