Senior Data Engineer: AI-Powered Data Platform & Pipelines

Just Eat Takeaway.com; Ewell; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the Insights & Enablement team within Retail Media Tech. You’ll design scalable data pipelines, build Gold Layer data marts in BigQuery, and shape the platform with Airflow-powered ELT workflows across batch and real-time workloads.

You’ll work with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to productionise models and AI tooling, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across the team.

Qualifications

• Proficient Python and SQL for data engineering tasks.
• Experience building scalable data pipelines and data models.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists and ML engineers.
• Strong troubleshooting, testing, and observability discipline.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable data pipelines and event streaming architectures.
• Develop and maintain Gold Layer data marts in BigQuery with dbt Core.
• Create and manage Airflow orchestrated ELT workflows across the platform.
• Contribute to data governance, tooling, and architecture discussions.
• Lead by example, mentor teammates, and document technical decisions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modelling

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

dbt Core

Airflow

BigQuery

GCP

AWS

Kafka

Spark

Dataflow

ClickHouse (Nice to have)

Job description

Just Eat Takeaway.com is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join the Insights & Enablement team within Retail Media Tech. You’ll design scalable data pipelines, build Gold Layer data marts in BigQuery, and shape the platform with Airflow-powered ELT workflows across batch and real-time workloads.

You’ll work with data scientists, ML engineers, and product managers to productionise models and AI tooling, while mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across the team.