Senior Data Engineer

Venatus; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advertising technology firm in London is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines. Candidates should have expertise in data warehousing, programming in Python, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS. This role offers a competitive salary and flexible working arrangements. Join the team to make an impact in the booming ad-tech industry.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Flexible working pattern

Private Health Care

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Expertise in data warehousing orchestration and architecture.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience in relational databases.
• Strong programming skills in Python (or equivalent languages).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Enhance pipelines to generate business metrics for insights.
• Develop data workflows for AI and ML model creation.

Skills

Data warehousing orchestration

Advanced SQL skills

Python programming

Kubernetes experience

Cloud platforms expertise

Tools

Apache Hive

AWS

Spark

NoSQL

Job description

Who we are

Venatus is an award-winning global ad‑tech platform that connects advertisers to the exclusive audiences of 500 world‑renowned gaming and entertainment publishers. We are tech‑first. We are gamers. We are the difference makers. Because when it comes to helping the worlds most recognisable brands such as EA, Nintendo and Rovio produce outstanding advertising campaigns our in‑house creative team alongside our direct and programmatic ad‑sales have an unrivaled track‑record.

Our game‑changing investment from leading private equity firm LivingBridge makes this an exceptionally exciting time to join the company. Venatus has ambitious growth and expansion plans launching new products and opening even more international offices. London is our HQ with regional offices in Amsterdam, New York, LA, Toronto, Sydney, Seoul and Manila.

Why you should work with us

Venatus is an extremely ambitious company and we pride ourselves on our open and supportive culture. Our talented employees stay loyal to our business due to the regular learning opportunities and experience of working directly with industry experts. We empower people to succeed welcoming innovative ideas and ways of working that will ultimately help the business grow. We offer a fluid approach to hybrid working giving employees the freedom to produce their best work wherever they are. Joining Venatus is a play for the top. You’ll be challenged in positive ways learn rapidly and develop a career in one of the most captivating industries in the world. You will be able to develop both professionally and as an individual carving a career path that engages and excites you.

What we’re looking for

At Venatus we’re building the future of ad‑tech and data is at the heart of everything we do. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our backend development team and play a pivotal role in designing, building and optimising ETL and streaming data pipelines. You’ll report into our Principal Engineer and work with our frontend and backend engineers to integrate data from diverse sources supporting analytics reporting and decision‑making across the business. This role will also help strengthen our business intelligence and AI capabilities ensuring Venatus remains at the forefront of ad‑tech innovation.

What you’ll do

Contribute to the design and maintenance of scalable efficient data pipelines and frameworks for end‑to‑end reporting and analytics.

Enhance pipelines to generate derived business metrics for real‑time monitoring, alerting and actionable insights.

Develop data workflows to support AI / ML model creation.

Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate data from internal and external systems ensuring compatibility and accuracy.

Support strategies that maintain the highest levels of data quality and consistency.

Build proactive monitoring systems to ensure data reliability and identify potential issues.

Design efficient data storage and retrieval strategies to minimise overhead and maximise performance.

What you’ll bring

• Expertise in data warehousing orchestration and architecture.
• Advanced SQL skills with experience in relational databases.
• Strong programming skills in Python (or equivalent languages).
• Hands‑on experience developing in Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience with DBT.

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with digital advertising technologies.
• Experience with Clickhouse.
• Knowledge of Dagster.
• Experience with Go.

Package

• Competitive base salary dependent on experience
• Flexible working pattern & Summer Hours
• Team building days
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Private Health Care
• 25 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays and your birthday off
• Option to buy and sell annual leave allowance
• Opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing ad‑tech company

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

We understand that the best ideas are born from the collaboration of diverse minds spanning all races, religions, ethnicities, genders and orientations. We are dedicated to making Venatus a safe happy place to be allowing everyone to feel comfortable and confident in order to produce their best work. We employ a range of talent that represents the diverse creativity of our industry and we are proud of our growing teams of employees who share these values.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation during the application process please let us know by emailing

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

Apache Hive, S3, Hadoop, Redshift, Spark, AWS, Apache Pig, NoSQL, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Kafka, Scala

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1