Founding Data Platform Engineer

Dexory; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare via Bupa with 24/7医

Life insurance

Income protection

Pension: 4+% employee with option to/s

Employee Assistance Programme - mental

25 holidays per year

Full meals onsite in Wallingford

Fun team events on and offsite

Job summary

Dexory is building its first company-wide data capability, and this founding hire will own the data foundation that unifies sources, models them into trustworthy tables, and defines the metrics and business concepts for consistent interpretation and AI querying.

You will be a senior, hands-on engineer making architecture calls while shipping value, with a clear path to leading the function as it grows; expect to be on-site at Wallingford for at least two days per week.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a senior data/analytics engineer with independent ownership of architecture and source-of-truth decisions.
• Fluent SQL, strong data modelling, and a modern data stack; experience with Databricks or equivalent lakehouse/warehouse and dbt.
• Demonstrated fluency with AI automation tooling (LLMs and agents) to integrate systems and enable natural-language querying; able to prove value with concrete builds.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the data foundation: consolidate data sources into a single, queryable layer and define core concepts (customer, site, deployment, contract).
• Embed data security requirements into architecture; ensure security is a design principle, not an afterthought.
• Model performance signals against SLAs and KPIs to enable on-demand analytics across sites.
• Define metrics and business definitions to ensure consistent interpretation and trustworthy data; codify definitions and enable AI/reporting.
• Use AI automation to connect systems and enable self-serve data with context-aware answers.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, autonomy, and perception teams to expose clean source data; focus on meaning and integration.
• Maintain ongoing health of the data foundation: monitor pipelines, adapt to source changes, protect trust.
• Make pragmatic build-versus-buy decisions and set engineering standards for the future team.
• Help define, recruit, and mentor the growing data function.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

AI automation

Data integration

Stakeholder alignment

Data quality

Entity resolution

Self-starter

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Python

Grafana

HubSpot

Pendo

Job description

Dexory is building its first company-wide data capability, and this founding hire will own the data foundation that unifies sources, models them into trustworthy tables, and defines the metrics and business concepts for consistent interpretation and AI querying.

You will be a senior, hands-on engineer making architecture calls while shipping value, with a clear path to leading the function as it grows; expect to be on-site at Wallingford for at least two days per week.