Job description
Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK’s leading gift experience provider. We’re all about turning special moments into extra-special memories. With a gifting range of 4000+ experiences from spa days and skydives to gourmet treats and once-in-a-lifetime adventures, we make it easy to give the gift of wow. 🎁
As part of the Moonpig Group, we’re proud to share that our vision is to become the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market. Our mission is to spread happiness through thoughtful, joy-filled experiences. People are at the heart of everything we do. Since joining the Moonpig Group in 2022, we’ve been powered by strong values, bold ideas and a shared passion for making a real difference. Here, you’ll have the chance to shape the kind of experiences people never forget – and help us build connections that truly matter.
Data Engineering Manager | 📍 London – Hybrid (2 days in office) | 💰 Competitive Salary + Benefits
About the Role
We’re looking for a Data Engineering Manager to lead our Data Engineering team at Buyagift & Red Letter Days, part of the Experience More group.
This role sits at the heart of how we use data to understand our business and serve our customers better. You’ll lead a team of data engineers responsible for building and maintaining a robust, scalable, and secure data platform that ensures the right data is available to the right people, at the right time.
You’ll combine people leadership with hands-on technical oversight, shaping our data strategy, data models, and data architecture, while improving data quality and governance. Working closely with stakeholders across the business, you’ll design and deliver well-structured, trusted data that underpins reporting, analytics, and confident, data-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a team of data engineers working on our core data platform.
- Set technical direction and strategy across data infrastructure, data architecture, and data modelling, ensuring we build the right solutions in the right way.
- Own and evolve our data models and data architecture, ensuring they are scalable, well-governed, and aligned with business needs.
- Build and maintain scalable, resilient data pipelines and systems, including an in-house event ingestion platform.
- Define best practices for analytics engineering, data modelling, and schema design to support reliable reporting and downstream use cases.
- Take ownership of data code, underlying infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and production monitoring.
- Collaborate closely with data insights and analytics teams to develop and refine ML-driven analytics pipelines.
- Work with stakeholders across the business to understand data requirements and translate them into reliable, accessible data solutions.
- Ensure data quality, governance, security, and GDPR compliance across the data platform.
- Support and grow engineers through mentoring, clear objectives, and our engineering growth framework.
About You:
- You have experience mentoring and developing engineers, and working closely with non-technical stakeholders.
- You’re either an experienced manager or ready to take the next step into a people leadership role.
- You enjoy taking ownership end-to-end, from data models and architecture through to pipelines, infrastructure, and production support.
- You’re passionate about data and apply best practices to analytics engineering, data modelling, and platform design.
- You have experience building and maintaining modern data platforms, ideally using Snowflake.
- You’ve worked with modern ETL tooling and understand how to build reliable, automated data flows.
- You’re curious about the business context behind the data and enjoy collaborating to solve real problems.
Our Tech Environment
- C# .NET and Python
- Azure and Terraform
- Orchestration tooling (such as Airflow)
- Snowflake
- DBT
- Fivetran
How We Get There:
- We focus on building simple, scalable solutions with clear data models and thoughtful architecture.
- We collaborate openly across engineering, data, and product teams.
- We encourage ownership, continuous learning, and thoughtful experimentation.
- We balance technical excellence with real business impact.
What’s in it for you?
We believe in empowering our team to do their best work. Enjoy:
💸 Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus generous pension plans, staff discounts, and share schemes.
💆🏾♀️ Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK), dental, life insurance, mental health support, and dog-friendly offices.
🏖️ Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (unless specified otherwise, 2 days a week in the office), and opportunities for international working.
📈 Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching, and development programs.
🤝 Recognition & Giving Back: Regular awards, charity support, length of service awards, and volunteering days.
Want to see more?
Check out our Linked In pages below:
Buyagift
Red Letter Days
Moonpig Group
Our Ways of Working:
We trust you to do what’s right, providing flexibility to balance work and life. We believe in giving you permission to innovate and focus on delivering meaningful results. We understand that effective ways of working are unique to each individual, role, and team, and we’re committed to supporting and discussing your specific needs throughout the interview process and beyond. Unless specified otherwise, most of our team works from the London office 2 days per week as part of our hybrid approach.
Moonpig Group’s Commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity:
At Moonpig Group, we’re all about creating a workplace where everyone feels they truly belong. We celebrate what makes each of us unique, whether that’s our background, how we work best, or what matters most to us.
From working parents who need flexible hours to neurodiverse colleagues with specific working styles, we’re here to support our people in ways that work for them. Because when you feel valued and included, you can thrive, and so can we.
We’re proud to have a number of employee-led groups driving this forward, including our LGBTQ+, Gender Balance, Neurodiversity and EMBRACE (Educating Myself for Better Racial Awareness and Cultural Enrichment) communities, plus our Group-wide EDI committee. These teams help make sure every voice is heard and every idea has a place.
We know that diversity fuels creativity, innovation and connection, and that’s why we’ll keep pushing for progress. Together, we’re building a culture where everyone feels safe, supported, and free to be their brilliant, authentic selves.
If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply and share your pronouns if you are comfortable to do so😊 - If you have any reasonable adjustment requests throughout the interview process please let us know on your application or speak to the Recruiter.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
