Data Engineer

We’re looking for a Data Engineer to build our data engineering function. You will be the first hire on the team. The team is small, so this is a hands-on role. Most of your time will be spent building and maintaining production data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Data Architecture, Optimization & Compliance

   • Design and maintain a unified data architecture: database schemas, data models, and micro-architecture solutions to ensure scalability and reliability.

   • Optimize database performance at all levels: indexing, partitioning, clustering, and tuning configuration parameters.

   • Ensure full compliance with GDPR, UK Data Protection Act, and other relevant regulations: data masking, consent management, retention policies, and privacy impact assessments.

2. Data Quality, Performance

   • Optimize queries, schemas, and indexes where needed.

   • Set up basic data quality checks.

   • Support GDPR and UK data protection requirements, including: Data masking, Access control, Retention policies.

3. Production Data Pipelines

   • Take data notebooks and calculation logic.

   • Turn them into reliable, production-ready pipelines.

   • Ensure scalability, reliability, and reproducibility.

Qualifications & Preferred Background:

• Write clean, readable, maintainable code.

• Have real experience supporting data pipelines in production.

• Have worked with a data warehouse (BigQuery or similar).

• Have strong experience in GCP.

• Understand orchestration, monitoring, and performance tuning.

• Can make practical engineering decisions independently.

• Strong communication skills and fluency in English.

• Startup mentality: resilience, adaptability, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

• Customer-centric mindset: focus on delivering value to end-users or clients.

• Strong problem-solving skills – ability to approach challenges logically and propose practical solutions.

Nice to have:

• Experience with AWS, or Azure.

• Experience with message queues or distributed systems.

• Basic CI/CD for data pipelines.

Compensation & Benefits:

• The role is fully remote, providing flexibility and enabling seamless collaboration with our geographically distributed team.

• Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.