Data Engineering Manager

The PureGym Way

Since our launch in 2009, PureGym has been pioneering the model for affordable, flexible, high-quality gyms and our mission to inspire a healthier nation by helping more people in more places live healthier lives has led us to be the UK's favourite gym with over 400 sites and many more to come. But our ambition hasn’t stopped there, and our international expansion has seen us become a leading international operator with 250+ clubs across the US, Denmark, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

With 600+ gyms and over 2 million members, we are the gym where Everybody is Welcome. We champion diversity and are committed to providing a workplace where everyone feels free to be. We offer:

• Gym membership for you + 1
• Hybrid working
• A truly flexible working culture
• Personal private healthcare
• Life insurance
• Company pension contribution
• Holiday purchase scheme up to an additional week.
• Great Learning & Development Resources
• Enhanced maternity pay

The Role

Location: London Hybrid (Office based 1 day per week)
Type: Full Time
Contract type: Permanent

We are a value business, focused on making gyms and fitness accessible to as many people as possible. Data is at the heart of how we run our business, starting from where to open our gyms, through what we offer within them through to how we engage with past, current, and future members. Combining the data from our 2.5 million plus members with data about locations, operations, and performance allows us to unlock industry leading insights and drive a better member experience and commercial performance.

Data is a core competitive advantage to use as market leader, helping us guide decisions at scale and personalisation at the member level. To unlock the value of data, PureGym has built a Group Insights & Analytics function, comprised of a Data Engineering team, a Data Science team and an Insights team, recognising the importance of close collaboration of data teams to quickly and efficiently deliver business value.

Our cloud-based technology stack builds on Azure Databricks to ensure data is reliably and easily available to the business. As we continue to grow, we are moving towards a group data platform and are looking for someone to lead on this journey and help shape the approach to data across the group. Our goal is a unified data platform to enable data driven decision-making and self-service across all countries in our group and this role plays a critical part of that journey.

We are looking for a Data Engineering Manager to manage our London-based Data Engineering team, taking ownership of our data platform delivering and growing data and self-serve capabilities across the group. A successful candidate will be able to balance delivery of business value with security and scalability and be part of shaping how data is managed and used. This includes expanding the data brought into our data platform, evolving the data models and ways data is being shared and accessed, as well as managing the data governance, always with an eye on how data delivers value across the group.

Leading a small but driven Data Engineering team, the role sits at the heart of delivering our data platform strategy as well as owning the data platform itself. It plays a key role in shaping how data is and will be used by the business.

The role reports into the Group Head of Insights & Analytics and sits along, and works closely with, senior members of the Insights and Data Science teams forming the wider Insights & Analytics function.

The core remit of the role is to drive the delivery of PureGym’s data platform with associated capabilities and business enablement. As a result, the main responsibilities of the role are:

• Own the day-to-day delivery of Data Engineering activities, ensuring reliability, performance and evolution of the data platform
• Manage and mentor team members, supporting them in their delivery, development and growth
• Manage third-party Data Engineering services, ensuring service-levels are met and value is being delivered
• Translate business needs and objectives in data projects, working closely with both technical and business stakeholders in their delivery
• Shape and ensure adherence to data governance practice
• Own data quality and data quality reporting
• Evangalise best practice use of data
• Explore additional data sources that can augment PureGym’s data asset to create business value
• Engage with the wider data community to ensure PureGym leverages the right tools and techniques for working with data
• Work with colleagues in the wider technology function to share best practice Azure and cloud management practices
• Contribute to the strategy and vision of the overarching Insights & Analytics function

The Person

We are looking for someone with the majority of the below:

• 5+ years in Data Engineering
• Experience with:

• B2C, ideally subscription businesses
• managing and mentoring team members, as well as planning and managing their delivery
• a combination of data assets, such as ERP, CRM, e-commerce, and people data
• a multi-country data platform
• Azure Databricks, Fivetran and dbt

• Good understanding of data governance and GDPR
• Desire to work closely with business stakeholders and see work delivering real world impact and enabling a data culture
• Ability to communicate complex engineering problems in everyday language
• Understanding of the financial consequences of IT decisions
• Positive, problem solving, entrepreneurial
• A continual improvement mindset with a passion for delivering great outcomes

 PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work. From a hiring standpoint, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to ensuring that our PureGym colleagues reflect the diversity of the nation as well as our millions of gym members we serve. 

Join us on our mission is to bring high quality, affordable fitness to everyone, everywhere.

PureGym is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our company mantra is ‘Everybody Welcome’ and we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive place to work.

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