Engineering Manager, Data Enablement

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Job Description:

At King, we’re the global leader in mobile gaming with 340 million monthly active users and over 2 billion USD in yearly revenue, driven by hits like Candy Crush Saga. Our Shared Tech organisation is at the heart of this success, processing 14 Petabytes of data and billions of events each day to fuel all of King’s data and analytics needs.

As part of Data Enablement, our Telemetry & Streaming teams develop and maintain data products and services that are integral to the company’s operations. We’re looking for a strong leader to manage two of these teams and support their continued success.

Your Role:

As an Engineering Manager, you will lead the Event Management and Data Transform teams, helping them thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. You’ll work closely with stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable data products that meet the evolving needs of the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Development:

  • Lead, mentor, and develop technical teams, supporting their growth both professionally and technically.

  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

  • Ensure your teams are motivated and empowered to take ownership of their work and deliver high-quality results.

• Stakeholder Collaboration:

  • Partner with Product Managers and other leads across King to define team strategies and priorities.

  • Work closely with stakeholders to understand their requirements and translate them into actionable plans for your teams.

• Agile Practices & Delivery:

  • Advocate for and implement agile software development practices such as continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and DevOps.

  • Drive timely delivery of high-quality solutions that meet business objectives.

• Innovation & Quality:

  • Encourage the exploration of new technologies and approaches to drive innovation within the teams.

  • Champion best practices in system architecture, coding, and testing to ensure maintainability and scalability.

• Culture & Values:

  • Promote an inclusive, open, and supportive team culture that aligns with King’s core values.

  • Actively contribute to King’s collaborative leadership community and participate in cross-team initiatives.

Skills To Create Thrills

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related fields, with 2+ years in a leadership role.

• Extensive experience working with big data at scale, processing large volumes of data in production environments.

• Proven ability to lead highly technical teams and foster a positive, high-performing environment.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g. GCP, AWS) and data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink).

• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code.

• A humble and open approach to leadership, with a strong belief in empowerment, trust and collaboration.

Bonus Points

• Experience with SQL and business intelligence tools like Looker, Tableau, or Qlik Sense.

• Experience managing backlogs, running large projects, and collaborating closely with product managers.

• Ability to apply strategic thinking and planning across the data domain.

• Experience working within a collaborative leadership team, contributing to and driving initiatives across the domain.

• A strong focus on cross-functional collaboration and effective communication at all levels of the organisation.

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.