Data Engineer
Global
Data Engineer
Global
Media and entertainment group delivering campaigns
Your role: Data Engineer
A hands-on role building scalable data infrastructure that powers AI-driven products and audience intelligence.
As a Data Engineer at Global, you will:
• Data Platform & Pipeline Engineering (60%): Design, build and maintain scalable batch and near real-time pipelines across ingestion, transformation and serving layers. Develop reusable data models and optimise performance, reliability and cost.
• Platform Evolution & Engineering Excellence (20%): Shape the Global:IQ data platform through best practices in architecture, tooling, CI/CD and infrastructure as code. Create reusable components and maintain clear technical documentation.
• Quality & Governance (10%): Implement robust data validation, testing, lineage and observability to ensure high-quality, trusted datasets. Support governance and privacy-conscious data handling.
• Collaboration & Enablement (10%): Partner with Data Science, MLOps, Product and commercial teams to deliver production-ready data solutions. Support and mentor others while communicating clearly with stakeholders.
Think Big: Build a data platform from the ground up that will scale with a cutting-edge AI and ML product.
Own It: Take responsibility for production-grade data systems that directly power targeting, optimisation and measurement.
Keep it Simple: Apply pragmatic engineering to deliver reliable, maintainable solutions without over-engineering.
Better Together: Work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional team spanning technical and commercial expertise.
In your first few months, you’ll have:
• Developed a strong understanding of the Global:IQ platform and its core use cases
• Successfully onboarded key datasets with robust ingestion and quality standards
• Delivered reliable pipelines supporting live production use cases
• Established or improved data engineering standards and best practices
• Built strong working relationships across Data, Product and commercial teams
• Identified opportunities to improve scalability, reliability and efficiency
• Programming & Data Skills: Strong Python and SQL skills, with experience building production-grade data pipelines
• Data Platform Experience: Hands-on experience with modern data tools (e.g. Snowflake, Airflow, dbt) and cloud environments (preferably AWS)
• Engineering Best Practice: Knowledge of CI/CD, testing, version control and infrastructure as code
• Data Quality & Governance: Understanding of observability, validation and maintaining reliable data systems
• Collaboration & Communication: Ability to translate business and data science needs into scalable solutions and communicate clearly with stakeholders
• Mindset & Approach: Pragmatic, ownership-driven and curious, with a passion for building impactful data products
Global is a leading media and entertainment group that creates and distributes content, music-related experiences, and personality-driven campaigns. It serves advertisers, music fans, and pop culture enthusiasts by delivering engaging content and experiences that attract large, attentive audiences. The company earns revenue mainly through advertising and partnerships with brands. Global differentiates itself through its ability to produce compelling campaigns and experiences that resonate with diverse audiences, supported by an inclusive, equal-opportunity culture rooted in its London headquarters. The goal is to connect audiences with meaningful content while providing advertisers and partners effective ways to reach those audiences.
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