Senior Analytics Engineer
Job type: Full time, Permanent
Location: London-based with a hybrid model (2 days per week in the office, with occasional travel to markets)
About the Team
At Bauer Media Audio, our Data & Decision Sciences (DDS) team is at the heart of driving data-led decisions across nine European markets. We transform data into actionable insights that power business growth, enhance audience engagement, and improve operational efficiency. Working collaboratively across functions, we treat data as a strategic partner—not just a support function.
About the Role
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you’ll transform raw data into well-modelled, business-ready marts and semantic layers. You’ll lead on Kimball-style modelling, dbt transformations, and semantic definitions for BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Looker. This role combines technical leadership with line management (2–3 engineers) and collaboration with senior stakeholders on multi-market initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and own dimensional data models and marts in dbt following Kimball principles.
- Build and maintain dbt pipelines from raw layers to gold layer marts, ensuring performance and quality.
- Define and enforce modelling and testing standards across the team.
- Own parts of the semantic layer and core metrics across BI tools.
- Translate technical schemas into clear business concepts and documentation.
- Lead migration of Redshift/BigQuery workloads into Snowflake and dbt.
- Refactor legacy logic and optimise models for performance.
- Champion documentation-first practices and data quality standards.
- Use and improve observability tooling (dbt tests, Great Expectations, internal observability systems).
- Line manage 2–3 Analytics Engineers, coaching and maintaining high technical standards.
- Partner with DDS leadership and stakeholders to define and execute data strategy.
- Engage with markets to understand needs and communicate delivery plans.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong SQL; hands-on with Snowflake (plus Redshift/BigQuery)
- Proven experience with dbt at scale
- Dimensional modelling using Kimball methodology
- Python for data engineering tasks
- Airflow (or similar) and Git-based workflows
- Familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI)
- Experience of cloud environments, particularly AWS and GCP
- Experience leading large-scale projects and managing engineers
- Clear communicator, collaborative, and strong ownership of data models
- Nice-to-Haves: Great Expectations, semantic layer tooling, Terraform, media/advertising background
About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
What’s in it for you
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
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London, GB, NW1 2PL
