Senior Data Engineer
Depop
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Define and execute the vision for Depop’s data quality, observability, and governance frameworks.
- Establish data contracts between producers and consumers to ensure schema integrity and data reliability.
- Develop and maintain systems that detect, alert, and resolve data quality issues with minimal latency.
- Build automation and tooling to reduce MTTD (Mean Time to Detection) and MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution) for data incidents.
- Partner with data platform engineers to integrate observability at every layer - ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
- Lead GDPR and privacy-by-design initiatives, ensuring compliance and traceability across all datasets.
- Define standards for metadata management, lineage tracking, and access control.
- Collaborate with analytics and product teams to ensure data definitions and quality metrics are consistent across domains.
- Mentor engineers and analysts, fostering a culture of data stewardship and accountability.
- Continuously improve data governance maturity through automation, documentation, and measurable quality KPIs.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer or in an equivalent technical leadership role in data quality, observability, or governance.
- Deep knowledge of data observability frameworks (Monte Carlo, Soda, or equivalent) and data validation tools (Great Expectations, etc.).
- Deep understanding of Data Products principles and experience applying them to improve data reliability and ownership.
- Experience designing and enforcing data contracts and quality SLAs in distributed data ecosystems.
- Proficiency in Python or Java, and experience building pipelines with Airflow, Spark, or Kafka.
- Strong understanding of data governance principles, privacy regulations (such as the GDPR, CCPA), and secure data handling practices.
- Familiarity with metadata management and data catalog tools (e.g.DataHub, Collibra, etc.).
- Demonstrated success improving data reliability and observability in large-scale data platforms.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; you can bridge technical depth with operational impact.
Benefits
- Health + Mental Wellbeing PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
- Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
- Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
- Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting
- Work/Life Balance: 25 days annual leave with option to carry over up to 5 days
- 1 company-wide day off per quarter
- Impact hours: Up to 2 days additional paid leave per year for volunteering
- Fully paid 4 week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
- Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office Based, and Remote options *role dependant
- All offices are dog-friendly
- Ability to work abroad for 4 weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries
- Family Life: 18 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
- IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
- Learn + Grow: Budgets for conferences, learning subscriptions, and more
- Mentorship and programmes to upskill employees
- Your Future: Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings
- Depop Extras: Employees enjoy free shipping on their Depop sales within the UK. Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data qualitydata observabilitydata governancedata contractsdata validationPythonJavaAirflowSparkKafka
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder managementmentoringcollaborationleadership