12 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the vision for data quality, observability, and governance frameworks.
- Establish data contracts between producers and consumers to maintain schema integrity and data reliability.
- Develop systems that detect, alert on, and resolve data quality issues with minimal latency.
- Build automation to reduce mean time to detection and mean time to resolution for data incidents.
- Integrate observability across ingestion, transformation, and consumption layers with data platform engineers.
- Lead GDPR and privacy-by-design initiatives, including compliance and dataset traceability.
- Define standards for metadata management, lineage tracking, and access control.
- Align data definitions and quality metrics across analytics and product domains.
- Mentor engineers and analysts and promote data stewardship and accountability.
- Improve governance maturity through automation, documentation, and measurable quality KPIs.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Staff Data Engineer or equivalent technical leader in data quality, observability, or governance.
- Deep knowledge of data observability frameworks such as Monte Carlo and Soda, and validation tools such as Great Expectations and dbt tests.
- Strong understanding of data-as-a-product principles and experience improving data reliability and ownership.
- Experience designing and enforcing data contracts and quality SLAs in distributed data ecosystems.
- Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala and experience building pipelines with Databricks, Spark, or Kafka.
- Strong understanding of data governance, GDPR, CCPA, and secure data handling practices.
- Familiarity with metadata management and data catalog tools such as DataHub and Collibra.
- Demonstrated success improving reliability and observability in large-scale data platforms.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred experience with automated compliance monitoring, policy-as-code systems, real-time anomaly detection, cross-functional data reliability initiatives, and consumer or marketplace platforms.
Benefits
- Bupa private medical insurance and cash plan healthcare access.
- Subsidised counselling and coaching through Self Space, plus a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and Mental Health First Aiders.
- Cycle to Work scheme with Evans or the Green Commute Initiative.
- 25 days of annual leave, with the option to carry over up to 5 days, plus one company-wide day off per quarter.
- Up to 2 additional paid volunteering days per year.
- A fully paid four-week sabbatical after five consecutive years of service.
- MyMode flexible working with Flex, office-based, and remote options depending on the role.
- Dog-friendly offices and the ability to work abroad for four weeks per year in UK tax treaty countries.
- 18 weeks of paid parental leave, IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave.
- Budgets for conferences and learning subscriptions, plus mentorship and upskilling programmes.
- Life insurance worth three times salary and pension matching up to 6% of qualifying earnings.
- Free UK shipping on employees’ Depop sales and milestone gifts and rewards.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Depop
Depop runs a peer-to-peer mobile marketplace where people buy and sell secondhand fashion, with revenue from transaction and payment fees. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in London, it operates globally and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Etsy in 2021. The app is popular with Gen Z thrifters and resellers, with over 56 million registered users discovering vintage, streetwear, and designer items.