Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer. London. Hybrid Remote. ££Competitive.

AKT (pronounced “act”) is The Personal Performance Company with multi award-winning body care that may change your life. Founded by West End stars Ed Currie and Andy Coxon, AKT is by and for those who are “Born to Perform” — on the stage, at work, or in life.

In 2020, The Deodorant Balm made its stunning debut to rave reviews and awards from Vogue, GQ, Esquire, and Harper’s BAZAAR. Plastic-free, aluminium-free, and gender-free, The Deodorant Balm instantly resonated with those looking for a natural deodorant that genuinely worked. Five fragrances and over 700,000 happy armpits later, The Deodorant Balm is already becoming a household name.

To this day, every new AKT product is put through its paces by London’s hard-working theatre community to ensure it lives up to the high standards of its founders. As a rule, AKT’s products don’t break character — ever. It’s this effectiveness that has propelled AKT from the backstage to bathroom cabinets, bedside tables, duffel bags, and carry-on luggage worldwide. And the good news is — the performance is just getting started.

About The Role:

As Lead Data Engineer you will lead the development and evolution of our data platform, tooling, and architecture to power a fast-scaling, omnichannel D2C business. Operating across Shopify, Amazon, TikTok Shop, and retail channels, this role ensures we have a trusted, scalable, and efficient data ecosystem that supports growth, efficiency, and confident decision-making across the business.

This person will balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic platform management, overseeing the design and delivery of data pipelines, integrations, and models that unify data from multiple systems, geographies, and distribution centres.

Data, and this role, is critical to the success of AKT’s continued growth, and as such this role is high profile, impactful and will work very closely with the Head of Data and the Data & Insight team.  You will work across multiple stakeholders, functions and external partners as needed.

The role will be based in the UK (and work UK hours) but will liaise occasionally with stakeholders from the USA and other territories so some flexibility is required.