Data Engineer

Buyagift and Red Letter Days are the UK's leading gift experience provider. We're all about turning special moments into extra-special memories.

As part of the Moonpig Group, we're proud to share that our vision is to become the most trusted platform in the UK gift experience market. Our mission is to spread happiness through thoughtful, joy-filled experiences.

We are looking for a talented and experienced Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering Team at Buyagift and Red Letter Days. Our team makes sure the right data is available to the right people, enabling a truly data-driven organisation and helping us serve our customers well.

You will design, build and maintain the data pipelines and data warehouses that power the business. You will work on projects including developing and migrating to a new data analytics platform, creating new data ingestion pipelines, and building data-driven solutions to business problems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform and load data from a variety of sources into our data warehouse.
• Optimise, maintain and troubleshoot pipelines so consistent, high-quality data is up to date and available.
• Develop and maintain data models that support business intelligence and analytics needs.
• Ensure the quality, performance and security of our data infrastructure.
• Follow best practices for security and infrastructure.
• Create and maintain relevant documentation.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to build and deploy data-driven products and features.

About You

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering.
• Strong experience with SQL and ETL/ELT tools such as Fivetran and dbt.
• Experience with data warehousing on Snowflake.
• Confidence interacting with databases and web APIs and processing data.
• Good understanding of relational databases and data modelling best practices.
• Awareness of data governance and security.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Technical experience with Snowflake, Fivetran, dbt, Git source control, MS DevOps, GitHub Actions and Python.
• Azure experience is a plus.
• Experience with orchestration tooling such as Airflow is nice to have.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform is nice to have.

Benefits

• Competitive Pay & Bonuses: Plus generous pension plans, staff discounts, and share schemes.
• Wellbeing First: Private healthcare (UK), dental, life insurance and mental health support
• Flexible Working & Time Off: Generous holidays, hybrid working (unless specified otherwise, 2 days a week in the office), and opportunities for international working.
• Career Growth: Learning allowances, coaching, and development programs.
• Recognition & Giving Back: Regular awards, charity support, length of service awards, and volunteering days.