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Wave Group

Wave Group

Analytics Engineer

London Hybrid 5-10 yrs exp Staffing and Recruiting 77 employees£90k – £100k / year
Analytics EngineeringData EngineeringSQLBigQueryPostgreSQL

Requirements

Candidates must have over 5 years of experience in analytics engineering or a similar role, with strong SQL and extensive dbt experience. Proficiency in Python and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders are also required.

Job Description

💻 Job Title: Senior Analytics Engineer

💰 Salary: up to £100k (strong mid/senior)

🔥 Equity: up to 170% (!!!) - insanely generous 🥵

  • 70% guaranteed upon joining
  • up to 100% additional allotment based on performance

📍 Location: Shoreditch (4 office days/week)

🌴 Benefits:

  • Private healthcare & dental cover
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Office lunches

📦 Industry: Logistics

👥 Team: ~110

💸 Funding: ~$45m (Series A)

🛂 VISA sponsorship available if needed


This company is hands-down the hottest logistics scale up in Europe, taking the industry by storm and growing at an astronomical pace.


Every parcel that moves through their network generates thousands of data points. Those data points feed forecasts, optimisation models, and an increasingly autonomous AI marketplace. The Analytics Engineer in this role owns the foundations that make all of it possible, sitting within the company's biggest and most data-rich squad.


If you want to be at the heart of something genuinely transformative, this might be for you.


🛠️ What you'll be doing:

  • Designing the data foundations that power real-time operational decisions
  • Building core data models that power analytics, data science and autonomous AI workflows
  • Owning the data inputs that drive key AI decision systems
  • Driving data quality through testing, monitoring and alerting
  • Shaping analytics engineering practices as the business scales


✅ Must have requirements:

  • 5+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering or a similar role
  • Strong SQL (BigQuery, PostgreSQL)
  • Extensive dbt experience
  • Experience with data visualisation tools
  • Python proficiency for automation and data manipulation
  • Clear communicator who can translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders


👍 Bonus points for:

  • Experience with orchestration tools (Dagster / Airflow)
  • Real-time pipeline experience
  • Familiarity with ML workflows and feature engineering

Skills

Analytics EngineeringData EngineeringSQLBigQueryPostgreSQLdbtData VisualizationPythonAutomationData ManipulationCommunicationOrchestration ToolsReal-Time PipelineML WorkflowsFeature Engineering

About Wave Group

Wave enables companies to scale. Our mission is clear. Fuel growth by building the teams and advisory support behind it. We combine talent and consulting to solve the same problem. How you hire. How you structure. How you move. We connect tech, product and data talent with companies shaping what’s next. From critical hires to full team builds. We provide consulting across hiring strategy, team design and market insight. Practical guidance. Clear decisions. Better outcomes. Our approach is human and precise. Defined search. Structured delivery. Straight advice. With over 1,000 public LinkedIn testimonials and 300+ partnerships, the work holds up.. Curious to learn more? hello@wavetalent.co www.wave-group.io/