Head of Data Engineering

Location: London, hybrid

Company

hirify.global's Data & Analytics function supports business-critical insights, reporting, and data consumption across the organisation.

What you will do

• Own the long-term Data Engineering Strategy and align quarterly roadmaps and OKRs with company objectives.
• Lead two Data Engineers while combining hands-on technical work with strategic leadership and mentoring.
• Develop an agentic analytics framework and enable reliable, scalable self-service analytics.
• Manage data orchestration, ETL, live reporting, data-source integrations, and downstream KPI delivery.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and data-integrity processes covering metric shifts, staleness, and operational issues.
• Partner with engineering, analytics, regulatory, vendor, and infrastructure stakeholders while promoting data literacy and secure data access.

Requirements

• Advanced SQL skills for both production-grade and analytical use in a commercial environment.
• Proven experience extracting, transforming, and loading data across disparate environments.
• Hands-on experience creating data views in major BI tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau, or MicroStrategy.
• Experience leading or managing high-functioning technical talent.
• Deep knowledge of data engineering best practices and modern consumption-layer design.
• Pragmatic, curious, self-driven, and commercially minded approach with measurable delivery impact.

Nice to have

• Python skills.
• Experience with dbt or LookML.
• Knowledge of software development best practices.
• Experience in a digital healthcare environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent employment in a hybrid London workplace.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Data Engineers, Analytical Business Partners, Data Scientists, engineers, regulatory professionals, and external partners.
• Learning culture supported by documentation, training, helpdesk support, newsletters, and lunch-and-learn sessions.
• Focus on data literacy so employees can use data effectively across the organisation.