Data Engineer

Founding Data Engineer role at a fast-scaling hardware/software company making its first ever data hire. The role involves building a data function from zero. The company has valuable commercial, operational and product data spread across several systems; the Data Engineer would bring this together into a single, reliable source of truth, build the underlying architecture and create consistent definitions usable across the business. Package: £95-105K base, equity (ESOP), private healthcare and other perks. Minimum once a month in the office in Oxfordshire.

Responsibilities

Bringing commercial, operational and product data together into a single, reliable source of truth; Architecting the data foundation solo, with a clear path to leading the team as it's built out; Using AI/LLM tooling to accelerate integration and build self-serve, trustworthy natural-language querying; Working directly with commercial, product, and engineering stakeholders to get alignment on shared definitions; Creating consistent definitions that can be used across the business

Requirements

Strong Python + SQL, comfortable owning architecture independently; Databricks (or similar lakehouse/warehouse) plus dbt or equivalent; Genuine hands-on experience building with LLMs/agents, not just familiarity; Strong stakeholder management skills

Benefits

Equity (ESOP); Private healthcare; Other perks