Data Engineer

Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) aims to empower parents to improve child development, reduce family violence, and promote mental health. We give parents the support they need, the skills that work, and trusted advice they can count on to protect and support their children’s health, safety and development. Our parenting courses are developed with families, powered by low-cost and accessible technology, backed by rigorous evidence, and delivered within systems.

Originally founded as an initiative in 2012 in collaboration with UNICEF and the WHO, Parenting for Lifelong Health was established as a UK charity in 2022 and since then has reached over 8 million families in more than 35 countries.

• Courage We have the courage to design for the big picture and complex problems with a commitment to creating sustainable solutions that last.
• Evidence We believe our work transforms the lives of children, families, and communities. Evidence of impact guides every decision, and we are relentless in pursuing the greatest impact with the least investment of time and resources required for parents and providers.
• Playfulness Parenting and child wellbeing thrives on play — and so do we. We experiment, learn from each other, as well as from parents and children, and create playful and engaging products and programmes that inspire joy, curiosity, and connection.
• Respect Everyone brings something essential. We show kindness in our team, honesty with our partners, and deep respect and empathy for parents and children, and those who are on the frontline of providing services for them.

PLH has a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equity in how we work, who we work with, and what we do. Candidates from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

PLH also has a strong commitment to the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA). All candidates considered for the role will be subject to background and reference checks in their country of residence.

Flexible remote-working, home office set-up, unlimited annual leave, professional development opportunities, enhanced pension contributions, enhanced statutory leave provisions including maternity and paternity leave.

Full Time

1 March 2026

Remote-working position; hybrid working negotiable in the United Kingdom

Fixed-term contract of 12 months (possible permanent extension)

The Data Engineer will be responsible for building, maintaining, and optimising PLH’s data pipelines, data models, and analytics infrastructure to support programme delivery, monitoring, research, and decision-making. Working closely with the Senior Engineer, product managers, researchers, and country implementation teams, the role will ensure that data is reliable, scalable, well-governed, and usable across contexts.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys translating complex, messy, real-world data into robust systems that support evidence-driven programmes at scale, evidence-informed product design, close collaboration with research teams, and who is motivated by social impact rather than purely commercial outcomes. The Data Engineer will report to the Senior Engineer for Solutions.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting data from digital platforms (e.g. chatbots, mobile apps, surveys, facilitator tools)
• Manage Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT) workflows to support analytics, dashboards, and research use cases
  
  Monitor and optimise pipeline performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Design and maintain clean, well-documented data models for operational and analytical use
• Support the evolution of PLH’s data warehouse and related storage systems
• Implement versioning and change management for datasets used across multiple deployments and countries
• Own the development and ongoing maintenance of dashboards and reporting tools used by programme teams, leadership, and partners
• Ensure data powering dashboards is accurate, timely, and aligned with indicator definitions
• Collaborate with researchers, technology…