Senior Data Engineer - Data Quality, Observability & Governance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Hybrid/Remote options

Sabbatical after 5 years

Life Insurance

Pension matching

Job summary

Depop, a leading fashion marketplace, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Governance Squad. You will design and implement frameworks, tools, and processes to strengthen data foundations, ensuring data is accurate, observable, and compliant.

Your mission is to reduce mean time to detection and resolution of data incidents by establishing data contracts between producers and consumers, developing robust data observability systems, and embedding governance and data protection

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading data governance, quality, or observability initiatives.
• Deep knowledge of data observability frameworks and validation tools.
• Experience applying Data Products principles to improve data reliability and ownership.
• Experience designing and enforcing data contracts and data quality SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute vision for data quality, observability, and governance frameworks.
• Establish data contracts to ensure schema integrity and data reliability.
• Develop systems to detect, alert, and resolve data quality issues with low latency.
• Build automation to reduce MTTR and MTTD for data incidents.
• Collaborate with data platform engineers to integrate observability across ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
• Lead GDPR and privacy-by-design initiatives ensuring compliance and traceability.
• Define metadata management, lineage, and access control standards.
• Collaborate with analytics and product to ensure consistent data definitions and quality metrics.
• Mentor engineers and analysts to foster data stewardship and accountability.
• Improve data governance maturity through automation, documentation, and KPIs.

Skills

Data governance

Data observability

GDPR / privacy

Python/Java

Airflow / Spark / Kafka

Data contracts

Data catalogs

Stakeholder mgmt

Security practices

Tools

Monte Carlo

Soda

Great Expectations

DataHub

Collibra

Job description

Depop, a leading fashion marketplace, is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Data Governance Squad. You will design and implement frameworks, tools, and processes to strengthen data foundations, ensuring data is accurate, observable, and compliant.

Your mission is to reduce mean time to detection and resolution of data incidents by establishing data contracts between producers and consumers, developing robust data observability systems, and embedding governance and data protection