Lead Analytics Engineer

Bauer Media Outdoor UK

Lead Analytics Engineer steering data warehouse projects and championing data literacy at Bauer Media Group in London. Collaborating with technical leads to ensure data integrity and quality.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set and enforce the data modelling standards that govern how the team designs facts, dimensions, aggregates, and semantic layers
Review and exercise independent judgement on modelling approaches proposed by Lead Analytics Engineers, making formal recommendations where decisions carry material risk or long-term architectural consequence
Own the technical integrity of the curated data layer – ensuring what is built is correct, performant, well-documented, and genuinely fit for business use
Translate business requirements into data model designs that are both technically sound and analytically useful
Act as the final technical quality checkpoint before work reaches production or is presented to business stakeholders
Bring genuine analytical expertise: the ability to sit with data, identify what it is and is not telling you, and present findings in a way that is clear, honest, and actionable

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep SQL expertise, including complex transformations, window functions and performance tuning in a cloud environment
Proven experience designing analytical or data warehouse models
Strong dimensional modelling knowledge such as Kimball approaches, star schemas and aggregates
Experience with Databricks or similar platforms
Hands on ownership of curated data layers used by the business
Strong understanding of end-to-end data dependencies across a modern data stack (pipelines → models → semantic layer → consumption)
Strong understanding of data quality, profiling and validation techniques
Mentoring and acting as a technical lead

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 paid holidays including bank holidays
Company Pension Scheme paid up to 8%
Healthcare Cash Plan
Life Insurance and group income protection scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Cover

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLdata modellingdimensional modellinganalytical modelsdata warehouse modelsperformance tuningdata quality techniquesprofiling techniquesvalidation techniquescloud environment

Soft Skills

analytical expertiseindependent judgementtechnical quality assurancementoringleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationpresentation skillsattention to detail