Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data EngineerAWS | Snowflake | Python | SQLGateshead | Hybrid | Up to £80,000Picture joining a growing e-commerce business where you’ll take technical ownership of the data platform and help shape how data supports the next stage of growth.The business has data coming from its website, customers, orders, marketing, subscriptions and wider operations. You’ll take ownership of how this data moves through the business, improve the existing platform and build the foundations needed as the company continues to scale.You’ll sit within Engineering and work closely with Software Engineering, Product, Data Analysts, Marketing and senior stakeholders across the business.The RoleYou’ll own and evolve the data platform, with the autonomy to improve the architecture, processes and tooling as the business grows.Build and maintain reliable ETL/ELT pipelines, data models and warehouse architectureImprove data quality, monitoring, testing, performance and reliability across the platformWork with Data Analysts and wider teams to build trusted datasets around customers, orders, marketing and commercial performanceTake ownership of the technical roadmap, identifying technical debt and opportunities to improve the platformProvide technical guidance across the growing Data capability and act as the main technical point of contact for Data EngineeringYou’ll suit this role if you have strong commercial Data Engineering experience, strong SQL and Python skills and experience running production data pipelines.Experience with modern cloud data platforms and tooling such as Snowflake, AWS, dlt or Fivetran would be useful. Experience working with e-commerce, customer, subscription or marketing data would also be valuable.The attraction here is the level of ownership. You’ll inherit an established data platform, but you’ll have the freedom to improve it, shape the technical direction and help build a stronger Data function around it.If you’re looking for a Senior Data Engineering role where you have genuine technical ownership and the opportunity to shape the data platform as an e-commerce business grows, I’d love to have a chat.