Senior Analytics Engineer

Swap
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 81K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Query Performance
API
Artificial Intelligence
Data analysis
Cloud Computing
Cluster Analysis
Continuous Integration
Data Architecture
Data Files
Data Systems
SQL Databases
Backend
Google BigQuery
Real Time Data

Job description

Swap is the infrastructure behind modern agentic commerce. The only AI-native platform connecting backend operations with a forward-thinking storefront experience.

Built for brands that want to sell anything - anywhere, Swap centralises global operations, powers intelligent workflows, and unlocks margin-protecting decisions with real-time data and capability. Our products span cross-border, tax, returns, demand planning, and our next-generation agentic storefront, giving merchants full transparency and the ability to act with confidence.

At Swap, we're building a culture that values clarity, creativity, and shared ownership as we redefine how global commerce works.

We're looking for a passionate and pragmatic Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Analytics Engineering team, scaling our stack for a new data-driven era at Swap.

This is a key strategic contributor role within the team, offering a high degree of ownership and the chance to build a scalable, modern data architecture. You'll build the scalable data models that power our entire business-from internal commercial insights for Sales and Finance to the trusted data sets enabling customer-facing agentic systems.

We need a hands-on builder excited to own our high-quality dbt project, shape our analytics vision, and scale our models to support hyper-growth. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative team with high ownership and impact, we'd love to hear from you!

  • dbt Project Ownership: Own and scale our dbt project, shaping its architecture and CI/CD processes to support company-wide analytics.
  • Data Modeling & Architecture: Drive our data modeling strategy, building and maintaining the core set of performant, scalable, and trusted data models that power all downstream consumers-from our internal BI tool to our customer-facing agentic systems and analytics APIs.
  • Data Quality & Governance: Champion and implement robust data quality standards, PII governance, testing, and documentation to ensure our data is trustworthy and reliable as we scale.
  • Stakeholder Partnership: Act as the key data partner for commercial (Sales, Finance) and product teams, translating complex business needs into data solutions and managing delivery expectations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as an Analytics Engineer with a heavy focus on data modelling, transformation, and governance.
  • Expert-level SQL and deep, hands-on experience with dbt (Core/Cloud). You can design complex models, implement robust testing, and set effective materialisation strategies.
  • Deep expertise in Google BigQuery, including a strong, practical understanding of query performance tuning, partitioning, clustering, and cost optimisation.
  • Strong, pragmatic understanding of data modelling, including dimensional modelling (Kimball) and layered data architectures (e.g., Medallion).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. You are autonomous, confident, and partner directly with senior leaders (e.g., Sales, Finance, Product) to translate needs into data solutions.

Benefits & conditions

  • Competitive base salary.
  • Stock options in a high-growth startup.
  • Competitive PTO with public holidays additional.
  • Private Health.
  • Pension.
  • Wellness benefits.
  • Breakfast Mondays.

We embrace diversity and equality in a serious way. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and views. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. Creating a culture of equality isn't just the right thing to do; it's also the smart thing.

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