Data Engineer

UK | Hybrid or Remote | £50,000 – £60,000 (Dependent on Experience)

Data Engineer - Help bring clarity to the data that drives our growing business

We’re Zest, leaders in home appliance care + repair with big ambitions to revolutionise the industry. To get our data growth-ready, we need a hands-on Data Engineer who enjoys getting stuck into real-world data problems. Not theory or vanity dashboards; you make data that people actually use to make business decisions.

This is our first ever Data hire, so there’s lots of opportunity to do interesting and innovative stuff and build a career pathway in the future as an IC or leader. You’ll sit at the heart of how we understand calls, leads, sales, marketing, finance, and operations, turning siloed and sometimes chaotic data into clean, reliable, trusted datasets that power reporting, automation, and future AI-driven insight.

Working closely with our IT and Finance Directors, you’ll collaborate with Tech, Finance and Ops to build a single version of the truth - and make sure it stays that way.

This isn’t “big data for big data’s sake.”

It’s about bringing clarity to our data whilst handling edge cases, imperfect inputs, late data, mismatched numbers and making sense of it at scale.

You will:

• Build and own our data pipelines
• Shape our data warehouse
• Make data trustworthy
• Enable reporting, insight, and automation
• Get our data AI-ready

Great engineers can have diverse skills and experience. We believe that, to be successful, our Data Engineer would likely have a profile including some of this experience:

• Strong experience building data solutions in Azure (Fabric, Data Factory, etc.)
• Excellent SQL skills (CTEs, window functions, complex joins, performance tuning)
• Experience integrating data from production systems and multiple sources
• Solid understanding of relational data modelling
• Confidence working with messy, real-world operational data
• Comfortable in a Microsoft-based stack (SQL Server, Azure)
• Able to debug, investigate, and clearly explain data issues
• Experience with Google Analytics and Google Ads data
• Experience with call centre / telephony data
• Power BI or SSRS dataset design
• Working with APIs and JSON / XML
• Scripting (Power Shell, Python, or similar)
• Exposure to analytics or AI-driven use cases

You don’t need to have all of this experience to apply, it’s a guide to help people understand our Data Engineer role. We’d encourage you to apply if you have some of this experience and an ambition to learn the rest.

We’re Zest, leaders in home appliance care + repair with big ambitions to revolutionise the industry. We started our journey 20 years ago + have built a community of 42,000 customers across the UK. We’re scaling up for our next phase of digital growth. We aim to grow by building brand trust with proactive customer care, right-first-time solutions and empowering customers with digital self-service.

Join our Founder-led growing and diverse team with opportunities to try out innovative ideas + have a big impact from day 1.

We care about our team as much as we do about our customer community. Joining Zest gives you access to:

• Flexible + hybrid working
• Data-focused learning + development plan with mentoring from our Finance + Tech Directors
• 24 days annual leave (+ up to 5 days extra with long service)
• Performance-related bonus scheme
• Private Medical Insurance, health cash plan + mental health support
• A Zest-designed modern office that’s 5 mins walk to West Cliff Beach
• Zest Bites kitchen with onsite chef, subsidised meals + free refreshments including Pearhaus speciality beans coffee machine
• Zest apparel drops
• Social calendar with cultural, foodie + experiential events

Click Apply and join the Zest place to work!