Overview

Kharon is seeking a full-time, London based Data Engineering Manager. Occasional in office attendance is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and scale a small high-performing, high-output data and software engineering team, fostering a culture of ownership, continuous learning, constructive feedback, and technical excellence.
• Be a strong, hands on contributor in day-to-day software development.
• Own the architecture and delivery of core data systems and infrastructure—ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with Kharon’s platform goals.
• Establish and enforce best practices for data modeling, ETL/ELT development, pipeline orchestration, and observability.
• Drive adoption of modern data tooling (e.g., Airflow, Databricks, Spark, AWS-native services) and architectural patterns.
• Implement and oversee data governance practices including retention, monitoring and alerting, deduplication.
• Promote a culture of data quality and stewardship, ensuring high integrity and reliability across all systems.
• Design, review, and evolve processes for data ingestion, transformation, and delivery with a focus on automation and efficiency across batch and streaming systems.
• Innovate by evaluating and integrating emerging technologies, including LLMs, vector search, and real-time graph analytics.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data science teams to rapidly prototype, iterate, and ship impactful, secure solutions that solve complex business problems.

Qualifications

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8-10+ years as a data engineer, software engineer, or data scientist, of which includes 1-3 years working as an engineering manager.
• Strong coding skills in Python, with a solid foundation in modern software development practices.
• Deep experience designing and scaling data pipelines, data warehousing solutions, and ETL/ELT workflows using tools like Airflow, Databricks, and AWS.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams with a focus on mentorship, technical rigor, and a strong engineering culture.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes, driving technical roadmaps, and aligning data initiatives with business goals.
• Experience working across global markets and collaborating with cross-functional partners in fast-moving environments.

About Kharon

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to understand risk and operationalize that data to make informed decisions. Our tools cover financial crimes, sanctions, export controls, and threat identifications to protect businesses from serious risks. We serve many leading global financial and multinational institutions and strive for accuracy and depth in our insights.

What we offer

• Fully sponsored private insurance
• Pension plan with 3% employer contribution

How to apply

Interested? Please apply by visiting our website and navigating to our careers page. We aim to respond to each application. Look out for an email from apply@kharon.com.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Data Infrastructure and Analytics