Data & AI Engineer
- Onsite
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- FullTime
- ZURU Group
About the role
Own the data platform behind a global business, shape how ZURU uses data and AI, and build systems that directly drive real-world decisions.
About ZURU
ZURU is on a mission to disrupt across industries, challenge the status quo and catalyst change through radical innovation and automation advances. This is in play in different pillars of the company: ZURU Toys are re-imagining what it means to play; ZURU Tech is shaping a better future by leading the next building revolution; ZURU Edge is pioneering new generation FMCG brands to better serve modern consumers.
Founded in 2003 by EY Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur Hall of Fame brothers Nick and Mat Mowbray, ZURU has quickly grown to a team of over 5000 direct and indirect members across more than 30 international locations.
One of the largest toy companies in the world, globally recognised and award-winning brands include Bunch O Balloons, Mini Brands, XSHOT, Rainbocorns and Smashers. Our global FMCG brands include MONDAY Haircare, Rascals, NOOD, BONKERS, Gumi Yum Surprise, and more!
For more information, visit www.zuru.com.
YOUR ROLE
As a Data & AI Engineer, you'll own data pipelines that power real business decisions across ZURU's global operations. Working with Databricks, dbt, Fivetran and AWS, you'll design and run production systems end to end, from ingestion through to the models the business actually reports on. You'll take full ownership of your domains and help shape how the platform evolves.
This role sits at the centre of data-driven decision-making at ZURU. You'll build reliable, well-modelled data products, drive up data quality, and make the platform easier and safer for everyone to build on. Your work determines whether commercial, marketing and logistics teams can trust and act on their numbers, and you'll have a direct hand in the direction of ZURU's data platform and AI capability.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build and own production data pipelines ingesting from SAP, retail POS systems, logistics platforms and marketing channels
Lead migrations of legacy pipelines into modern, scalable architectures, including the design decisions and cutover plan
Model data for analytics and AI use cases, setting the standards others follow
Build observability, testing and alerting into pipelines so issues surface before the business finds them
Improve platform infrastructure and tooling, and reduce operational toil through automation
Partner directly with commercial, marketing and logistics stakeholders to turn ambiguous asks into well-scoped datasets
Review others' work and mentor junior engineers on SQL, Python and pipeline design
Contribute to governance, documentation and platform standards, and to AI-assisted workflows across the team
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
3+ years of experience building and running data pipelines in production
Advanced SQL, including performance tuning on large datasets
Strong Python for pipelines, automation and tooling, with a working knowledge of software engineering practice (version control, testing, code review)
Hands-on experience with dbt and a cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift)
Proven experience with orchestration, and a track record of debugging and hardening pipelines that fail in production
Comfortable owning delivery end to end and working through ambiguity without close direction
Clear communicator who documents decisions and can explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
Bonus
Spark, streaming, or large-scale distributed processing
AWS (or equivalent) and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
CI/CD for data, data contracts, or data quality frameworks
Exposure to LLM or AI-driven data workflows
Experience mentoring engineers or leading a workstream
LIFE@ZURU
ZURU is on a quest to reimagine tomorrow. Founded in 2003, ZURU Group has rapidly grown and now spans three core divisions—ZURU Toys, ZURU Edge (consumer goods) and ZURU Tech (construction).
At ZURU, we have cultivated a high-performing culture that encourages excellence. Our team works towards ambitious goals, learning, performing, and improving together, all while having fun. We empower talented individuals to do their best work every day.
At ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. As ZURU is on such a fast growth trajectory, there are opportunities here that you won’t find anywhere else.
Get to know us a little better by checking out @lifeatzuru on Instagram or www.zuru.com.
WHAT WE OFFER
🌱 Culture for Growth
🧘 Health Benefits
🌎 Global Opportunities
💡 Surrounded by an A Player Team
💰 Competitive Remuneration
🍓 Lots of fresh fruit, coffee, pals fridge and more (optional)
ZURU – Reimagining tomorrow 🚀
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