Data Engineering Lead

Data Engineering Lead - London (Hybrid or Office Based)We are hiring for a fast growing, award winning UK consumer products brand in the health and wellness space, selling internationally across DTC and marketplace channels. Now maturing into a data empowered business.This is the first dedicated data hire. Reporting has gone from fully manual to an early automated foundation, and you will own the next stage: a secure, centralised, self serve data platform. Hands on from day one, with the opportunity to build and lead a team.What you will doBuild and maintain pipelines from source systems (Shopify, Amazon, ad platforms, Northbeam, Klaviyo, ShipBob, Fulfil, Gorgias, Attio) into BigQuery and out to Power BI and Google SheetsImprove the unified data layer, judging when to refine architecture and when a tactical fix is rightManage the external analytics partner: set requirements, QA output, decide what is built in houseOwn monthly and quarterly reporting analytics so numbers are trusted and reconciledDefine access models, shared definitions, governance and security from scratchBuild data literacy through self serve dashboards, documentation and trainingOptimise conversion and behaviour tracking (GTM, GA4, Meta Pixel, Elevar, Northbeam APEX)Implement LLM driven analysis workflows on top of clean, structured dataWhat we are looking for3 to 6 years in data engineering, analytics engineering or a data lead role, ideally in a scaling DTC or e commerce businessProduction pipelines (API integrations, ETL / ELT) into BigQuery, with strong SQL and Pythondbt or similar transformation tooling, plus confident dashboard buildingCommercially minded, able to turn messy multi source data into numbers leadership trustsA self starter who wants to create rather than inheritNice to have: e commerce integrations, governance frameworks built from scratch, subscription and omnichannel data, LLM based analytics using MCP, vendor or small team management.Package70,000 to 85,000 GBP plus growth based bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, accelerated career path, direct access to senior leadership, weekly socials, monthly fitness class passes, Cycle to Work.