Posted 25 days ago
Description
Accepting applications until:
1 May 2026
Job Description
Your role: Data Engineer
A hands‑on role building scalable data infrastructure that powers AI‑driven products and audience intelligence.
As a Data Engineer at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
- Data Platform & Pipeline Engineering (60%): Design, build and maintain scalable batch and near real‑time pipelines across ingestion, transformation and serving layers. Develop reusable data models and optimise performance, reliability and cost.
- Platform Evolution & Engineering Excellence (20%): Shape the Global:IQ data platform through best practices in architecture, tooling, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Create reusable components and maintain clear technical documentation.
- Quality & Governance (10%): Implement robust data validation, testing, lineage and observability to ensure high‑quality, trusted datasets. Support governance and privacy‑conscious data handling.
- Collaboration & Enablement (10%): Partner with Data Science, MLOps, Product and commercial teams to deliver production‑ready data solutions. Support and mentor others while communicating clearly with stakeholders.
What You’ll Love About This Role
- Think Big: Build a data platform from the ground up that will scale with a cutting‑edge AI and ML product.
- Own It: Take responsibility for production‑grade data systems that directly power targeting, optimisation and measurement.
- Keep it Simple: Apply pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions without over‑engineering.
- Better Together: Work in a highly collaborative, cross‑functional team spanning technical and commercial expertise.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
- Developed a strong understanding of the Global:IQ platform and its core use cases
- Successfully onboarded key datasets with robust ingestion and quality standards
- Delivered reliable pipelines supporting live production use cases
- Established or improved data engineering standards and best practices
- Built strong working relationships across Data, Product and commercial teams
- Identified opportunities to improve scalability, reliability and efficiency
What You’ll Need
- Programming & Data Skills: Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience building production‑grade data pipelines
- Data Platform Experience: Hands‑on experience with modern data tools (e.g. Snowflake, Airflow, dbt) and cloud environments (preferably AWS)
- Engineering Best Practice: Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, version control and infrastructure as code
- Data Quality & Governance: Understanding of observability, validation and maintaining reliable data systems
- Collaboration & Communication: Ability to translate business and data science needs into scalable solutions and communicate clearly with stakeholders
- Mindset & Approach: Pragmatic, ownership‑driven and curious, with a passion for building impactful data products
