About the Role
AKA is seeking a Data Engineer to join their Data & Insights Team. This role will initially focus on leading the engineering build of Atlas, AKA's composable customer data platform (CDP). You will own the pipelines, infrastructure, and data architecture to transform raw customer signals into a real-time, production-grade platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering delivery of Atlas: event streaming infrastructure, schema and taxonomy standards, and the Snowflake data warehouse and dbt transformation pipelines.
- Design and build production identity resolution pipelines, translating matching logic and statistical models into robust, scalable production code.
- Own ETL/ELT and reverse-ETL orchestration, ensuring reliable data flow from source systems into the warehouse.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and engineering practices to support Atlas's modelling, forecasting, and MMM automation.
- Support productionisation of propensity, forecasting, and MMM outputs, ensuring they run reliably at scale.
- Implement data governance, monitoring, alerting, and incident runbooks for a real-time platform.
- Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate build, testing, and documentation.
- Work with Account Management and client teams to translate engineering constraints into clear, non-technical guidance.
- Contribute to phase-gated delivery milestones and support wider Data & Insights infrastructure.
- Work within the Data Engineering team's standards and practices, contributing to shared documentation and code quality.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 3+ years' experience as a Data Engineer.
- Strong, demonstrable proficiency in Python for building and maintaining data pipelines.
- Experience with dbt or equivalent transformation frameworks.
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools such as Fivetran or Airbyte.
- Experience designing and operating production data pipelines, including CI/CD practices for data and ML workflows.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: version control, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
- Comfortable working directly with AI coding assistants as part of the standard development workflow.
Skills
- Python
- dbt
- Fivetran
- Airbyte
- CI/CD
- Version control
- Testing
- Monitoring
- Documentation
- AI coding assistants
- Snowflake
- Tableau
- Asana
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Flexible/Hybrid Working
Experience Level
- 3+ years' experience
Education Level
- Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent professional experience
Salary/Compensations
- Dependent on experience
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- ‘Telus Health’ EAP scheme for you and your family
- Holiday Buy Back
- Gym Discounts
- Friends & Family Theatre Ticket
- New Business Incentives
- Recruitment Incentives
- Pension Scheme
- Interest Free Travel Loan
- Ride to Work Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers
- Death in Service
- Flexible/Hybrid Working
- Critical Illness
- Enhanced Parental Leave
About the Company
- AKA is a leading entertainment media agency working with top-tier studios, streaming platforms, and content creators to connect stories with audiences in emotionally resonant and culturally relevant ways.
- We harness data, creativity, and behavioural insights to shape the future of entertainment.
