Data Engineering Lead

Agora Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bank holidays

Accelerated career path

Direct access to senior leadership

Weekly socials

Monthly fitness class passes

Cycle to Work

Job summary

Agora Talent is seeking a Data Engineering Lead in London, with hybrid or office-based options, to own the next stage of our data platform and scale our capabilities.

You will build pipelines from multiple sources into BigQuery and Power BI, while driving governance, self-serve analytics, and data literacy across teams.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in data engineering or analytics leadership.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency with production pipelines.
• Experience with dbt and dashboard building for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pipelines from Shopify, Amazon, ads, and other sources into BigQuery and out to BI tools.
• Improve the unified data layer, balancing architecture refinement with tactical fixes.
• Manage external analytics partners: set requirements, QA outputs, and decisions on make-in-house work.
• Own monthly and quarterly reporting analytics to ensure trusted, reconciled numbers.
• Define access models, governance, and security from scratch; drive data literacy.

Skills

Data leadership

SQL proficiency

Python programming

Analytical mindset

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Power BI

Google Sheets

Job description

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 do

• Build 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 Sheets
• Improve the unified data layer, judging when to refine architecture and when a tactical fix is right
• Manage the external analytics partner: set requirements, QA output, decide what is built in house
• Own monthly and quarterly reporting analytics so numbers are trusted and reconciled
• Define access models, shared definitions, governance and security from scratch
• Build data literacy through self serve dashboards, documentation and training
• Optimise conversion and behaviour tracking (GTM, GA4, Meta Pixel, Elevar, Northbeam APEX)
• Implement LLM driven analysis workflows on top of clean, structured data

What we are looking for

• 3 to 6 years in data engineering, analytics engineering or a data lead role, ideally in a scaling DTC or e commerce business
• Production pipelines (API integrations, ETL / ELT) into BigQuery, with strong SQL and Python
• dbt or similar transformation tooling, plus confident dashboard building
• Commercially minded, able to turn messy multi source data into numbers leadership trusts
• A self starter who wants to create rather than inherit

Nice to have: e commerce integrations, governance frameworks built from scratch, subscription and omnichannel data, LLM based analytics using MCP, vendor or small team management.

Package

• 70,000 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