Principal Data Engineer, Dotdigital
Omnichannel marketing automation platform
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Omnichannel marketing automation platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower marketers to achieve their goals in faster and smarter ways.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience delivering python-based projects in the data engineering space
- Extensive experience working with SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Proven experience with modern data warehousing and large-scale data processing tools
- Hands on experience with data orchestration tools
- Experience using cloud environments (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP) to process, store and surface large scale data
- Experience using Kafka or similar event-based architectures
- Strong grasp of data architecture and data modelling principles for both OLAP and OLTP workloads
- Capable in the wider software development lifecycle in terms of agile ways of working and continuous integration/deployment of data solutions
- Engineering Leadership
- Experience as a lead or Principal Engineer on large-scale data initiative or product builds
- Demonstrated ability to architect data systems and data structures for high volume, high throughput systems
- Proven experience leading data platform modernisation or cloud migration projects
- Comfortable taking ownership of difficult data problems and driving them to resolution
Desirable
- Experience using ClickHouse as part of a data pipeline and analytics solution
- Experience using Databricks or similar data platforms
- Experience building AI agents to automate data engineering workflows
What the job involves
- We are on the lookout for a Principal Data Engineer to help define and lead the next generation of our data platform and data capabilities
- You’ll play a key role in building scalable, resilient and intelligent data systems that power real time services, insights, products features and decisions across Dotdigital
- As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving the architecture, development and delivery of our data platform
- You will lead key initiatives, provide technical direction and collaborate with product, analytics and data science teams to ensure data value is realised across the entire ecosystem
- Working across the entire data lifecycle, you will help shape how data is collected, processed and consumed across Dotdigital
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure and resilient data systems across streaming, batch and real-time use cases
- Architect data pipelines, model and storage solutions that power analytical and product use cases; using primarily Python and SQL via orchestration tooling that run workloads in the cloud
- Leverage AI to automate both data processing and engineering processes
- Assure and drive best practices relating to data infrastructure, governance, security and observability
- Work with technologists across multiple teams to deliver coherent features and data outcomes
- Support the data team to help adopt data engineering principles
- Identify, validate and promote new tools and technologies that improve the performance and stability of data services
- We leverage the following technologies within our data platform:
- Azure Cloud
- Databricks
- Databricks Delta
- Prefect
- ClickHouse
- Day to day you will use the following programming languages/frameworks and tools:
- Python
- Fast API
- Terraform
- PySpark
- GitHub
- Claude Code
- Familiarity with the following technologies will also be useful:
- Kafka Streaming
- Event Hubs
- SQL Server
- MongoDB
Application process
- 15 min Screening Call with Talent Team
- Stage 1: Role deep dive with hiring manager(s)
- Stage 2: Technical interview with data team
Our take
Dotdigital builds an omnichannel marketing solution for B2C, B2B, and NFP marketers. The company serves thousand's of brands around the globe, counting British Airways, Royal Aeronautical Society, Barbour, Accolade Wines, and City & Guilds among its clients.
Marketers using Dotdigital can create hyper-targeted marketing campaigns that increase businesses' marketing ROI, boosts sales revenue and attracts more qualified leads. What's more, Dotdigital sets itself apart by being the world’s first carbon-neutral marketing automation platform.
Dotdigital's main priority is developing new data-driven digital marketing features in order to increase its customer base. New product launches and strategic investments are key to the company's continued growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Parental leave: Having a child is one of the biggest moments of your life and whether you’re a mum or dad, we understand the importance the time off work gives you to bond with your family. That’s why we offer an enhanced paternity, maternity and adoption leave policy for new parents.
- Medical cover: We offer medical insurance in all our global locations for our employees to feel reassured and offer options to look after their health and feel supported.
- Paid sick leave: When you’re unwell, you don’t want the added worry of whether you’re going to be paid for time off. That’s why we offer a company paid sick leave policy to support you when you need it.
- Dotdigital day: On top of your annual leave allowance and the holiday closedown period, we give you an extra day’s paid leave per year to use as you wish. It could be a day off on your birthday or a family birthday, a day to move house, or an opportunity to take advantage of the sunny weather!
- Share reward: Those who qualify may be granted a number of share options at no cost to themselves with the option to exercise these shares in the future.
- Wellbeing reward: Everyone has different ways of keeping themselves happy and healthy – the wellbeing reward is a flexible benefit that you can use towards an activity, hobby or membership.
- MyPossibleSelf: We recognise the importance of having on hand mental health and wellbeing support when you need it most. That is why we have a MyPossibleSelf wellbeing app membership for all Dotdigital employees.
- Wellbeing Days: As part of our continued support of employee wellbeing we want to provide you with time to support family, dependents, yourselves, and worthy causes.
- Loyalty reward: We’re proud to have employees who’ve been with the company since day dot and we believe loyalty is definitely something worth celebrating. So, for your first 5 years of service, and every additional 5 years’ service beyond that, have dinner and drinks on us.
- Specific policies to support our employees: There may be times where your personal circumstances can be challenging and mean you require some additional support from us. That is why we have internal policies on Bereavement, Babyloss, Menopause and Fertility Support to ensure you feel supported during this time.
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Milan Patel
(CEO)Milan joined Dotdigital in 2007 as a Group Financial Controller, since then he has held a number of roles and moved into the role of CEO in 2016.
Tom Mullan
(CFO)Prior to joining Dotdigital in 2025, Tom was CFO at Gresham Tech for over 6 years. He was also the CFO at Fadata Group. Director of Commercial FInance (EMEA) at Guidewire Software, and Manager at Ernst & Young.
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