Senior Data Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential e-commerce organization seeking their first dedicated Senior Data Engineer. This is a hands-on role where you'll own the data warehouse, build reliable pipelines, and ensure critical business decisions are driven by trusted information. You'll work on a modern data platform supporting finance, forecasting, ERP, and operational decision-making while having genuine ownership and influence from day one.

Responsibilities

• Own the performance, reliability, security, and ongoing development of the organization's BigQuery data warehouse and associated data pipelines
• Design, build, and maintain scalable ingestion and transformation processes
• Implement data quality monitoring, validation, and automated alerting
• Define data contracts with business stakeholders and system owners
• Improve reliability, accuracy, and freshness of business-critical data
• Lead investigation and resolution of data incidents, ensuring root causes are identified and permanently addressed
• Support ERP, finance, forecasting, and operational reporting requirements
• Build and maintain integrations for fulfilment and logistics platforms
• Identify and resolve data quality issues and pipeline failures
• Contribute to data architecture, governance, and engineering standards
• Collaborate closely with Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams
• Support reporting, analytics, and business intelligence initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement across the data platform

What We're Looking For

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of commercial Data Engineering experience
• Expert SQL skills and strong Python development experience
• Hands-on BigQuery experience or equivalent cloud data warehouse technologies
• Experience with dbt, Dataform, or similar transformation frameworks
• Experience building and operating production data pipelines
• Experience implementing monitoring, testing, and alerting for data systems
• Strong understanding of data quality, governance, and reliability
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience supporting finance, ERP, or operational reporting environments
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions

Nice to Have:

• Google Cloud Platform certifications
• Logistics, fulfilment, or e-commerce experience
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience
• Experience with modern analytics and reporting tools
• Experience scaling data platforms in high-growth businesses

Attributes:

• Ownership mentality and builder mindset
• Commercial awareness and problem-solving mindset
• Commitment to continuous improvement

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai will guide you through the entire process. Once you apply through our platform, a recruiter will conduct an initial screening to understand your experience and career goals. We'll then submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all applications must come through Get A Job.ai to be considered.

Location: Uddingston, United Kingdom

Pay

The client has indicated a salary starting from £65,000 per year for this position.

Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to inclusive recruiting practices and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic.