At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead data engineering projects and mentor a team to create reliable datasets.
- Company: Join THG, a global leader in beauty and sports nutrition.
- Benefits: Enjoy 25 days leave, enhanced pay, gym access, and discounts on THG brands.
- Other info: Dynamic work environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Shape the future of data engineering and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong Python skills and experience in data architecture required.
The predicted salary is between 66150 - 80850 £ per year.
We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition. Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition. From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG. With us, you’ll go further, faster.
About Central Functions: Central Functions is formed of the teams and people that serve the entire business. These people are integral to the smooth running of the business; ensuring everyone is paid on time, that materials are sourced and arrive promptly, that we meet our legal obligations and that our health, safety, and security is safeguarded.
Why be the Data Engineering Lead at THG? THG is building the data engineering capability that will underpin everything from daily trading analytics to AI-driven personalisation. As Engineering Lead, you will own the technical vision and delivery for how THG structures, stores and distributes its data across three core domains: Customer, Commercial and Operations. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You will be managing and mentoring a team of six engineers (three Senior, three mid‑level, each domain‑aligned), but you are also expected to be technically deep — setting architecture standards, making key design decisions, and being the person the team turns to when problems are hard.
Your primary mission is to move THG from a fragmented, siloed data landscape towards consistent, joined‑up domain datasets that can be trusted and used at scale. We have customer data in multiple places, commercial data that isn’t consistently structured, and operational data that isn’t easy to consume. You will build the engineering foundation that changes that — working to a shared architecture that ensures Customer, Commercial and Operations datasets have consistent standards, shared attributes where appropriate, and can ultimately be joined into a single, reliable view of the business.
You will work closely with Ingenuity, our technology partner, who manage the foundational platform and first‑layer pipelines. Your job is to take what Ingenuity provides and shape it into the structured, high‑quality domain datasets that analytics and data science teams can confidently build on. You will also be a key partner to the Data Governance Lead, implementing the standards they define within your engineering practice.
What you’ll do:
- Technical Leadership you must have built and operated production data pipelines on this stack
- Strong Python skills – used daily for pipeline development, data transformation and automation
- Experience across at least two of the three core data domains: Customer, Commercial and Operations
- A track record of evolving data architecture – you can demonstrate concrete examples of how you changed the way a business structures, stores or consumes its data
- Deep understanding of data modelling, pipeline design and distributed data architecture
- Experience with Dataform or dbt for data transformation
- Demonstrated use of AI in data engineering – AI-assisted pipeline development, automated quality checks, or similar practical applications
- Experience mentoring and developing engineers
- Experience building towards a Customer Data Platform (CDP) or equivalent customer data consolidation project
- Familiarity with data governance principles and working alongside a governance function
- E‑commerce or retail background
- Experience with streaming or real‑time data pipelines
What’s in it for me?
- Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in‑house L’D team.
- Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.
- Enhanced Leave: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us!
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
- Up to 10 days compassionate leave. Buy back up to 3 days each year.
- Access face‑to‑face and virtual appointments with our in‑house GP.
- Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
- State‑of‑the‑art on‑site gym.
- Access to our on‑site physio.
Other Perks:
- Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
- Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
- Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
- On‑site staff shop.
- Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
- Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.
EEO Statement: THG is proud to be a Disability Confident and Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability. THG is committed to creating a diverse
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