Manager, Data Engineering (Marketing)

Square Enix Open · verified Sep 10, 2026

On-site London Full-time Manager General Marketing

Mid-level General Marketing role at Square Enix. London · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate £47,500–£77,500.

Estimated pay

Square Enix has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.

£47,500 – £77,500

What the middle half of mid-level general marketing roles in London paid, among postings that did state a salary.

Worked out from 9 postings that stated pay, median £68,850. Last updated Sep 3, 2026.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

You'll coordinate regional engineering priorities across marketing, customer, sales, and gameplay data
You'll build, run, and improve pipelines while helping move suitable work onto shared global platforms
You'll connect game telemetry, identity, membership, commerce, CRM, and marketing datasets
You'll maintain reliable, accessible data for analytics, CRM, lifecycle, membership, and campaign work
You'll lead a small team, strengthen documentation, and promote automation and practical delivery habits

What you bring

Hands-on software and data engineering experience spanning backend systems, platforms, pipelines, APIs, and batch or real-time processing
Experience coaching engineers or guiding a small technical team through priorities and delivery
Cloud experience with Google Cloud, AWS, or Azure plus strong Golang, Python, or Java skills
Ability to design systems around shared platforms, standards, and integration patterns
A structured approach to ambiguity, with sound judgment across technical quality, business needs, stakeholders, and constraints

Who this fits

You’ll suit a hands-on engineering manager who can guide a small team while influencing regional and global partners. The role involves marketing and customer data, governance with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Compliance, and work with legacy or complex systems. It is based onsite in London.

From the employer

Job Description

Square Enix is a leading publisher of entertainment content, known for creating iconic worlds, characters, and stories that connect with players around the world.

The Manager, Data Engineering (Marketing) helps ensure our regional marketing and customer data capabilities are ready to support better decisions, stronger engagement, and future global platform direction. The role manages regional engineering delivery for marketing and customer data platforms, translating business and analytics needs into scalable data capabilities covering integration, quality, access, technical assurance, documentation, and operational readiness.

Working closely with regional stakeholders and global teams, the Manager ensures regional data solutions remain aligned with agreed global architecture and standards while establishing clear documentation practices, trusted operational routines, and AI-ready data capabilities that support customer engagement, better business decision-making, and future AI-enabled insight use cases.

Requirements

Responsibilities & KPI's

Responsible for coordinating and delivering agreed regional engineering priorities for marketing, customer, sales, and gameplay data, including day-to-day implementation decisions, delivery quality, technical assurance, and escalation of risks where they affect business priorities, agreed standards, or operational resilience.
Build, operate, and improve data pipelines and core data capabilities, while supporting the transition toward shared global data platforms where applicable.
Integrate and manage key datasets across game telemetry, account / identity, membership, commerce, CRM, and marketing systems.
Ensure customer, player-level, and account-related data is consistent, usable, and accessible for analytics, CRM, lifecycle, membership, and campaign engagement use cases.
Ensure data engineering delivery is carried out in line with data protection, security, secure coding, and regulatory requirements, working with Privacy, Security, Legal, and Compliance teams at agreed governance touchpoints and escalating decisions where additional approval is needed.
Identify technical debt and limitations in existing data or backend systems, and support practical improvements that enhance scalability, maintainability, integration, and alignment with shared platform direction.
Lead and manage a small Data Engineering team, providing coaching, prioritisation, performance guidance, and day-to-day technical leadership.
Establish consistent documentation practices across the Data Engineering team, including technical documentation, operational runbooks, and data flow definitions, to improve transparency, maintainability, and operational continuity.
Promote lean, efficient ways of working through automation, AI tools, clear prioritisation, and practical delivery practices.

Qualifications and Skills

Essential:

Significant hands-on experience in software and data engineering, including backend systems, data platforms, pipelines, APIs, and integration work across batch and real-time processing.
Experience leading engineers or small technical teams including coaching, prioritisation, and delivery guidance.
Cloud platform experience across Google Cloud, AWS or Azure, with strong programming capability in languages such as Golang, Python or Java.
Ability to design data systems that align with shared platforms, standards, and integration patterns.
Able to operate in ambiguous, evolving environments with a structured, composed, and delivery-focused approach.
Able to balance technical quality, business priorities, stakeholder needs, and delivery constraints while influencing technical, business, regional, and global teams.

Desirable:

Experience working with legacy systems, existing backend environments, or complex system dependencies without disrupting business operations.
Exposure to CRM, lifecycle communication, membership / loyalty, commerce, or marketing data use cases.
Experience coordinating cross-functional technical projects or delivery initiatives.

Purpose & Values

Purpose: Creating New Worlds with Boundless Imagination to Enhance People’s Lives.
Values:

Deliver Unforgettable Experiences
Embrace Challenges
Act Swiftly
Stronger Together
Continuously Evolve
Cultivate Integrity