Data Engineer

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