Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Company: Baringa
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Location: London
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About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering – Senior Manager Data Engineer

In DAISE, we’re focused on delivering value-adding, sustainable data capabilities, aligned to our client’s specific needs. This expertise is applied across clients in all of our industry market sectors (Financial Services, Products & Services, Energy & Resources, Pharmaceutical & Lifesciences and Government).

What you will be doing

  • Defining and implementing on premise or cloud architectures (e.g., a cloud data warehouse, data lake or data platform) to enable digital transformation
  • Working with clients on data warehousing, building operational ETL/ELT data pipelines across multiple sources, and constructing relational and dimensional data models
  • Performing maturity assessments across clients’ data capabilities and recommending improvements
  • Building technology blueprints and advising clients on the different technology options
  • Translating business requirements (functional and non-functional) into solutions, ensuring compliance with the organisation’s strategy, policies and standards and, where needed, helping customers define new policies, principles and standards
  • Helping clients identify risks and mitigations for their complex data programmes, and transition to modern cloud-based infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) by leveraging related architecture patterns (APIs, events)
  • Working with clients in data governance, including principles such as Master Data Management, Data Lineage and Data Security
  • Directly line managing teams of data engineers, responsible for workloads and development throughout their career at Baringa
  • Generating and originating new business development opportunities from your network and cross-selling and upselling across existing client projects

Your skills and experience

  • Passionate about data; able to combine technical delivery with core consulting skills in client engagements
  • Ability to own and run complex client engagements, interact with industry leaders, work with senior stakeholders to frame problems, assess current state, and make impactful recommendations
  • Strong hands-on expertise in data engineering, delivering data architectures, data pipelines and scalable solutions using modern delivery frameworks and tools (e.g., Databricks)
  • Experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) as infrastructure and as a service, plus big data platforms on-premise or in the cloud
  • Knowledge of technology stacks, experience applying DevOps practices to data engineering, and ability to build CI/CD pipelines
  • Proficient in SQL and at least one modern language such as Python
  • Understanding of distributed computing, batch and stream processing, functional and object-oriented programming, and data pipelines on cloud with scheduling and SLAs
  • Experience documenting solution design artifacts
  • Line management / team leadership experience, ideally in multiple geographical locations
  • Experience working to a formal sales target in a consulting environment and evidence of bringing in new clients

What a career at Baringa will give you

  • Puts People First: Baringa is a people-first company; wellbeing, work-life balance and flexible working are prioritised, with benefits including generous leave, hybrid working, and wellness support.
  • Diversity and Inclusion: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value belonging, diversity, creativity, and client value.
  • An award-winning workplace: We are recognised as a Great Place to Work and pursue awards for our workplace culture.
  • Corporate social responsibility and sustainability: We maintain high environmental standards, support net-zero targets, and encourage community involvement.

Join us

All applications will be reviewed by our Talent Acquisition team. We are committed to equitable hiring practices and encourage applications from diverse backgrounds. We do not rely solely on automated screening or AI tools. Please contact our Recruitment Team for discussions.

Baringa Privacy Notices

UK & EU: Your personal data will be retained for up to two years to evaluate your application, with GDPR rights available. USA, Australia & Singapore: See privacy notices for details. For more information, contact privacy@baringa.com.

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Posted: July 11th, 2026