Senior Data Engineer — Data Platform & Analytics

Blink; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options on starting and high-per

25 days leave + holidays

Private healthcare with AXA

3% employer pension contribution

Job summary

Blink is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in London to help shape and scale Blink’s data platform. You will build and maintain data ingestion pipelines, improve reliability, and enable scalable analytics for internal teams and Blink IQ 2.0 customer-facing product.

You’ll work closely with engineering, DevOps and business stakeholders to evolve the data platform, establish CI/CD, and ensure data is accessible and trusted across the organization.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills, including performance optimisation and complex queries.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines at scale.
• Experience with a modern data stack (e.g. Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Debezium or similar).
• Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster or Prefect.
• Proficiency in Python for building production data workflows.
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and modelling patterns.
• Experience working with cloud platforms and infrastructure tooling.
• Comfortable working across the stack — from ingestion through to analytics use cases.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
• Startup or scale-up experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve data ingestion pipelines across our stack.
• Design and implement orchestration for data workflows.
• Productionise data processes and ensure they run reliably at scale.
• Establish CI/CD practices across the data platform.
• Build monitoring, alerting and data quality checks.
• Improve observability across pipelines and workflows.
• Contribute to the development of Blink IQ 2.0, our customer-facing analytics product.
• Help ensure data is reliable, scalable and accessible across the organisation.
• Support analytics and reporting needs across teams.
• Work with DevOps on shared infrastructure and deployment practices.
• Support ad-hoc data needs and help stakeholders access reliable insights.
• Contribute to architectural decisions as the data platform evolves.

Skills

SQL

Data pipelines

Orchestration tools

Python

Data warehousing concepts

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Debezium

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Job description

Blink is hiring a Senior Data Engineer in London to help shape and scale Blink’s data platform. You will build and maintain data ingestion pipelines, improve reliability, and enable scalable analytics for internal teams and Blink IQ 2.0 customer-facing product.

You’ll work closely with engineering, DevOps and business stakeholders to evolve the data platform, establish CI/CD, and ensure data is accessible and trusted across the organization.