Lead Data Engineer (Paid Media)

Location: Hybrid in London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a global sports media group building data-driven products and experiences for sports fans through a portfolio of sports media brands.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end paid media user-level model, combining advertising spend and delivery, affiliate and operator revenue, and CRM data.
• Build and maintain ingestion for paid media sources using the central platform framework, including schema changes and unreliable source APIs.
• Own domain models from staging through analyst and business-facing marts, including semantic definitions such as qualified signups.
• Build reverse ETL flows that send online and offline conversion data back to advertising platforms to influence bidding.
• Take ownership of paid media jobs currently operated by the central team and transfer them to the domain.
• Represent Paid Media Insights in platform discussions, including data support for machine learning and data science.

Requirements

• Hands-on technical leadership experience guiding and mentoring data engineers.
• Production experience building pipelines with Python and SQL.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, orchestration, cloud data warehousing, performance, cost, and reliability at scale.
• Experience with tools such as dbt and Dagster, or transferable experience with Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.
• Ability to manage complex attribution, late conversions, cross-platform identity, and changing source APIs.
• Experience experimenting with agents, tooling, or AI-enabled engineering workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with paid media or attribution data.
• Experience with machine learning pipelines.
• Experience with MotherDuck, DuckDB, DLT, AWS, reverse ETL, or semantic layer tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with a flat organisational structure and freedom with responsibility.
• Flexible working hours supporting work-life balance.
• Private health insurance.
• Office perks including lunch, snacks, gym access, and social events.
• Opportunities for growth and broad ownership in an international company.

Hiring process

• Applications are processed on an ongoing basis.
• Applicants can contact the Senior Head of Paid Media Insights with questions about the position.