Quality Engineer Manager (Data)

About the team

We are recruiting a Quality Engineering Manager (Data) to lead and evolve the quality engineering capability across OSB Group's data platforms, pipelines and reporting solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people leadership with deep technical involvement across multiple strategic data programmes. You'll lead a team of up to 20 Quality Engineers across the UK and India whilst remaining close to delivery, shaping quality engineering practices, driving automation, and providing technical leadership across our Azure-based data estate.

Working within the Quality Engineering Chapter, you'll partner closely with Data Engineering, Architecture and Product teams to ensure robust, scalable and secure data solutions are delivered with quality embedded throughout the development lifecycle.

This role can be based from our Chatham or Wolverhampton offices and works within our hybrid policy of 3 days in the office.

What you will be doing?

As Quality Engineering Manager (Data), you will provide leadership across multiple concurrent programmes and transformation initiatives, whilst remaining actively involved in the design and implementation of modern quality engineering practices. You will champion quality across the entire data ecosystem, leveraging automation, cloud-native tooling and AI-enabled capabilities to improve efficiency, data reliability and speed of delivery.

Key responsibilities will include…

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple data and transformation programmes, supporting delivery from design through to production.
• Define and embed quality engineering standards, frameworks and best practices across OSB Group's Azure-based data platforms.
• Drive test automation and AI-enabled quality engineering approaches to improve efficiency, coverage and speed of delivery.
• Design, review and execute testing for complex ETL pipelines, data warehouses, reporting solutions and analytics platforms.
• Validate data solutions across Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Databricks and SQL Server, ensuring accuracy, integrity and reliability.
• Support quality assurance for large-scale data migration and modernisation programmes, including reconciliation, validation and defect management.
• Partner closely with engineers, architects and business stakeholders to manage quality risks, improve outcomes and deliver trusted data solutions.

What's in it for you?

• Base salary of between £65,000-£71,000
• Enhanced family-focused benefits
• Annual bonus opportunity
• 30 days annual leave + bank holidays

Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: careers/overview

About us

At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’.

Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace.

Do you have the skills?

We’re looking for someone who enjoys working collaboratively in Agile teams and translating business needs into solutions that deliver real value.

You’ll ideally have:

• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing Quality Engineering, Test or QA teams within data-centric environments, including large distributed teams across onshore and offshore locations
• Strong hands-on experience across data testing, ETL validation, reconciliation, data quality engineering and large-scale data migration or transformation programmes.
• Deep knowledge of Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Databricks and SQL Server, with advanced SQL skills for validating complex datasets.
• Experience developing automated testing and quality engineering solutions using tools such as Python, dbt, Great Expectations or similar frameworks.
• Understanding of modern Agile, DevOps and CI/CD practices, including the use of AI-assisted testing and engineering tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business audiences whilst managing multiple priorities and programmes.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and encourage candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions to apply.

Our team value spending time together in the office, typically 3 days a week to support collaboration and connection with colleagues, but we’re happy to have a conversation about what flexibility might look like for you.

Not sure if you meet the spec? Let us decide. Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally.

We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.