Senior Engineering Manager - Data Engineering

About the role

FanDuel, a sports-tech entertainment company owned by Flutter Entertainment, is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager in Edinburgh. You will lead a mixed team of consultants and data engineers who build scalable data pipelines powering business intelligence, analytics, fraud detection and operational reporting. The role combines organizational leadership with technical depth, partnering with Data Architects, Product Managers, Analytics and Engineering teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, build and continuous improvement of scalable data pipelines, Lakehouse architectures and data products on Databricks and AWS, while maintaining standards for performance, reliability and cost.
• Manage up to 9 data engineers and 5 consultants, covering hiring, onboarding, performance reviews and career development, and build a high-trust culture.
• Plan and prioritise the team's work to deliver on time and to quality, balancing discovery, platform investment and day-to-day delivery.
• Own production health, SLAs and incident response, and proactively resolve risks, blockers and cross-team dependencies.
• Resolve data architecture gaps, align decisions across teams and simplify, optimise or extend solutions.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform or related data roles.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams, including coaching, performance management and organisational development.
• Proven track record of growing and leading teams, with a pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
• Experience managing and delivering multiple projects at once.

Required skills

• Deep expertise in scalable data platforms and production-grade pipelines, with Python, Scala or similar.
• Modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks (preferred), Delta Lake, Snowflake or BigQuery.
• Monitoring and alerting with Monte Carlo, PagerDuty and DataDog.
• Technical architecture discussions, design reviews and cross-functional project delivery.

What we offer

• Professional development, mentorship and career growth opportunities.
• Total Rewards package including insurance and paid leave.
• A competitive compensation package.