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About ZURU\nZURU 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.\nFounded 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.\nOne 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!\nFor more information, visit www.zuru.com.\nYOUR ROLE\nAs 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.\nThis 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.\nCORE RESPONSIBILITIES\nDesign, build and own production data pipelines ingesting from SAP, retail POS systems, logistics platforms and marketing channels\n\nLead migrations of legacy pipelines into modern, scalable architectures, including the design decisions and cutover plan\n\nModel data for analytics and AI use cases, setting the standards others follow\n\nBuild observability, testing and alerting into pipelines so issues surface before the business finds them\n\nImprove platform infrastructure and tooling, and reduce operational toil through automation\n\nPartner directly with commercial, marketing and logistics stakeholders to turn ambiguous asks into well-scoped datasets\n\nReview others' work and mentor junior engineers on SQL, Python and pipeline design\n\nContribute to governance, documentation and platform standards, and to AI-assisted workflows across the team\n\nSKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED\n3+ years of experience building and running data pipelines in production\n\nAdvanced SQL, including performance tuning on large datasets\n\nStrong Python for pipelines, automation and tooling, with a working knowledge of software engineering practice (version control, testing, code review)\n\nHands-on experience with dbt and a cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift)\n\nProven experience with orchestration, and a track record of debugging and hardening pipelines that fail in production\n\nComfortable owning delivery end to end and working through ambiguity without close direction\n\nClear communicator who documents decisions and can explain trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders\n\nBonus\nSpark, streaming, or large-scale distributed processing\n\nAWS (or equivalent) and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform\n\nCI/CD for data, data contracts, or data quality frameworks\n\nExposure to LLM or AI-driven data workflows\n\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading a workstream\n\nLIFE@ZURU\nZURU 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).\nAt 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.\nAt ZURU, you get out what you put in. You are responsible for driving your own career and we provide the platform to achieve it. 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