Staff Data Engineer
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About the Position
Staff Data Engineer
- Location: London, UK
- Company: Beamery
About the Opportunity
Our data platform powers Beamery’s reporting and underpins our AI strategy. We’re hiring a Staff Data Engineer to set its technical direction.
This is our most senior individual contributor role in data engineering. You’ll own the platform’s long-term architecture, make the calls that are expensive to reverse, and lead the work that follows. You’ll also partner with EPD leadership (Engineering, Product, and Design) on work that crosses team boundaries, and on keeping the platform aligned with company strategy. The platform exists so everyone at Beamery can make faster decisions with data they trust. The role suits someone energized by ambiguity who measures impact by what the organization can do rather than what they personally shipped.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical strategy for the data platform. Define the multi-quarter architectural vision, build the case for investment with EPD leadership, and sequence delivery incrementally rather than as a big-bang migration. You take on the work with no established playbook and turn it into designs the team can execute. Expect challenges around multi-tenant consistency, correctness at scale, performance ceilings, and data modelling for AI and agentic workloads.
- Architect the analytics, semantic, and AI data layers. Define how core business metrics, feature usage signals, and skills and task intelligence data are modelled, governed, and exposed as trustworthy products to BI, self-service, and AI consumers.
- Set standards that scale beyond your team. Establish the architectural patterns, modelling conventions, and data contracts other teams adopt, favouring guardrails over review gates. Grow senior engineers into stronger technical decision-makers through design review, pairing, and mentorship.
- Own reliability and trust at the platform level. Set our approach to observability, data quality, SLAs, and incident response; lead RCAs on the most serious failures and drive the systemic fixes that prevent recurrence.
Requirements
- Data transformations using dbt, including patterns for large, complex projects
- Data storage (SQL / NoSQL): schema design, modelling at scale, and multi-tenant isolation
- Back-end engineering: Python (nice to have: Typescript/Node.JS)
- Pipelines: streaming, CDC, correctness, replayability, and evolution over time
- Data quality and observability: validation, testing, data contracts, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Infrastructure as code and containerisation (Terraform, Kubernetes)
Our Data Stack
Our stack will change as we grow, and you’ll be shaping those changes. The ability to learn new tools matters more than experience with any specific one.
- DBT for data modelling and transformation
- BigQuery data warehouse
- Kafka for data streaming between systems
- PostgreSQL & MongoDB for databases
- Typescript/Node.JS on the backend
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Segment for customer-centric event collection
We Offer
- Competitive opportunities for career growth and professional development
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and methodologies
About the Company
With the rapid expansion of AI and automation, the future of work has never been more challenging for organizations. Beamery’s unique jobs, skills, and tasks data platform helps organizations navigate these challenges and make more informed decisions across Talent Lifecycle Management. Our solutions power recruitment, mobility, upskilling, diversity, work architecture, and workforce planning for some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies.
We believe that where you work is much more than just a job. Millions of people are being left behind every day in their careers, and we’re on a mission to fix this by creating equal access to meaningful work, skills, and careers for all.
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to building a representative Beamery, creating an equitable, inclusive, and engaging environment for our people.
Beamery is open to engage with direct employment or contractors for this position in order to find the right fit candidate to join our team.
*Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email [email protected]
Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.
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