RealityMine has been a pioneer in delivering data driven insights to the world's largest brands for over a decade. Our platform provides unique data solutions to our clients enabling them to make strategic, informed decisions powered by data from real people, collected in a privacy safe way.

The Role:

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead engineering across:

• Our data products engineering teams - building and maintaining the feeds, datasets and reports we deliver to clients

• The evolution of our underlying data models and event schemas, making products more consistent and easier to extend

• The automation and internal tooling that unlock efficiency and quality (test automation, rule building tools, AI assisted workflows), and tying it all together

• You’ll be responsible for people leadership, technical direction and delivery across these areas. You won’t be coding day‑to‑day, but you should be comfortable going deep on architecture, pipelines and trade‑offs with Tech Leads and senior engineers.

Our offices are in Trafford Park, Manchester and the role consists of hybrid working, where we ask for our team to be in the office for collaboration and team building 2 days per week. The rest of the week is up to you; deep focus at home, or more of the same!

Key Responsibilities:

Own the roadmap and execution for our data products across multiple domains (apps, web, media, social, shopping, etc.)

• Lead teams building and maintaining data feeds, schemas and reporting outputs used directly by clients

• Evolve our shared data models and event structures so products are more unified, easier to reason about, and faster to extend

• Shape and prioritise work on automation and tools that reduce manual effort and improve quality

• Partner with Product, Data Engineering/ML, Apps, Test and client‑facing teams to define priorities and deliver against them

• Hire, manage and develop engineers and tech leads; run 1:1s, feedback and career development

• Establish and improve engineering practices across data products: observability, quality gates, documentation, incident response and SLAs

• Adhering to Company Policies and Procedures with respect to Security, Quality and Health & Safety.

About You:

You bring strong experience in software engineering, data‑centric systems and people leadership, and you’re excited about growing teams that build trustworthy, well‑modelled data products for customers.

You must have:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Manager / Tech Lead Manager in a data, platform or backend context

• Background in data or backend engineering (e.g. AWS, Python/Scala, Spark/EMR, Airflow or similar) – enough to challenge designs and make informed decisions

• Experience owning or supporting analytics/data/reporting products for internal or external customers

• Strong people leadership: building teams, coaching, performance management

• Track record of shipping complex, cross‑functional initiatives and managing stakeholders

You should have:

• Experience with automation (test automation, AI‑assisted workflows, etc)

• Familiarity with data privacy and governance (e.g. GDPR, consented panel data)

Why Join RealityMine?

At RealityMine, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we go the extra mile to support every team member to unlock their full potential. Whether you're hungry for learning, driven by achievement, or just love being part of a dynamic and supportive team, you'll find a home here.

Your Benefits

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 25 days of paid holiday, plus bank holidays. After two years with us, you can also buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave.

• Peace of Mind: Life assurance and a workplace pension with employer contributions. 

• Reward for Performance: Bonus scheme that recognizes your hard work and contributions.

• Cycle to Work Scheme: For the cyclists among us, we've got you covered.

• Gear You’ll Love: Choose the tech that works for you, we'll try and source it!

• Learning & Growth: Benefit from one-to-one coaching, a budget for training programs, and all the support you need to keep growing.

• Giving Back: Join us in supporting local charities and making a positive impact.

Hybrid Working

We know work-life balance matters, so we’ve embraced a flexible hybrid working model:

• Located in Trafford Park, our Manchester office offers an inspiring, collaborative space to work alongside your colleagues.

• Free parking and secure bike shed. Excellent public transport links. 

• Split your time between the office and home, with 2 days working in our offices.

• Full equipment provided for home working (desk, screen, chair).

• Receive £100 annually to personalise your home workspace.

• Flexible start and finish times to suit your personal circumstances.

If you’re a Engineering Manager- Data Products professional excited to work on impactful projects and shape the future of data insights, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email your CV with the heading ‘Engineering Manager- Data Products’ to recruitment@realitymine.com