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Technical Lead – MarTech Development Team
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Senior · 5+ years
Job description
Technical Lead responsible for leading engineering delivery of MarTech platforms, data pipelines, and customer engagement integrations, providing hands-on technical leadership within an established architecture and mentoring engineers.
At a glance
- Employment
- Employee or contractor
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Translate approved technical designs into implementation plans, sprint-ready tasks, and clear technical acceptance criteria.
- Lead the development and delivery of MarTech data pipelines, integrations, and customer engagement solutions across mParticle, Braze, and Databricks.
- Build and optimise batch and streaming data pipelines, APIs, webhooks, event schemas, and data models.
- Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, resilience, security, observability, and cost efficiency.
- Establish and maintain engineering standards across code quality, peer reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and rollback processes.
- Guide the implementation of mParticle and Braze capabilities, including SDK instrumentation, identity resolution, event tracking, audiences, Liquid personalisation, and Connected Content.
- Work with Product Owners and Agile Delivery Managers on feasibility, estimates, technical priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks.
- Set up monitoring, alerting, and data-quality checks to track pipeline performance, integrations, and customer engagement data flows.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis, ensuring issues are resolved and preventive measures are implemented.
- Ensure integrations follow data privacy, consent, security, and governance requirements, including GDPR and relevant data protection policies.
- Coach and mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and onboarding.
- Identify opportunities to use GenAI and automation to improve engineering productivity while following security and governance standards.
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or MarTech, including technical leadership and mentoring engineers.
- Hands-on experience delivering production solutions using mParticle, Braze, and Databricks.
- Strong understanding of MarTech ecosystems, customer engagement platforms, event tracking, identity resolution, and customer data models.
- Experience building and optimising batch and streaming data pipelines using SQL, Python, PySpark, and Delta Lake.
- Familiarity with dbt for data transformations and orchestration tools such as Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect.
- Experience designing and delivering secure, resilient API, webhook, and event-driven integrations.
- Strong understanding of engineering practices, including version control, CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, and release management.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and improving reliability across distributed data systems.
- Knowledge of data privacy, consent management, GDPR, and data governance requirements.
- Ability to translate business and marketing requirements into technical solutions and communicate trade-offs clearly.
- Strong collaboration skills, with the ability to influence Product, Marketing, CRM, Data, InfoSec, and external vendors.
- A pragmatic approach to technical leadership, balancing delivery speed with engineering quality and architectural standards.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS services, Splunk, and CloudWatch for monitoring and operational support.
- Familiarity with Braze Canvas, API-triggered messaging, Liquid personalisation, and Braze Currents.
- Experience with mParticle Live Stream, connection rules, data filters, and event forwarding policies.
- Knowledge of data reconciliation, consent synchronisation, data retention, and data subject request processes.
- Experience working with Agile delivery teams and contributing to engineering guilds or technical communities.
- Practical experience using GenAI tools for code generation, data modelling, documentation, and engineering workflows.
Benefits
- Rocket-Fuelled Growth – Big challenges, fast learning, and the chance to level up quicker than anywhere else
- A Culture That Actually Gives a Damn – Supportive, positive, and built around people who want to see you win
- A Global Crew – Collaborate with brilliant teammates across Europe, the US, and beyond
- Remote-First for Life – Work from wherever you feel your best
- Real Career Momentum – Clear progression, real ownership, and space to grow into your next chapter
- Moments That Matter – Meetups, events, and team experiences that make the journey unforgettable
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About Massive Rocket
A rapidly scaling Braze and Snowflake agency
Massive Rocket is a rapidly scaling Braze and Snowflake agency on a mission to transform how digital marketing, product, and engineering teams connect. In just five years, we've grown at speed and are now gearing up for our next big milestone: hitting $100M in revenue. We build human experiences at scale, powered by cutting-edge web, mobile, cloud, data, and AI technologies.
Mission
Transform how digital marketing, product, and engineering teams connect
Key facts
- MarTech agency
- Grown at speed in just five years
- Gearing up for next milestone: hitting $100M in revenue
- Global crew across Europe, the US, and beyond
- BYOD policy
- No visa sponsorship available
What they value
- Ownership
- Collaboration
- Growth