Senior Analytics Engineering Manager

Senior Analytics Engineering Manager Overview

Deliveroo is looking for a senior analytics engineering leader to help expand its analytics engineering capability across several business areas. The role sits within the company’s analytics organisation, which supports decision-making across its three-sided marketplace, and it is based in London at The River Building HQ. This is a hybrid position, with three days each week expected on site.

The analytics engineering function is a major part of Deliveroo’s wider analytics setup, working alongside data science. The team includes more than 70 analytics engineers across the UK and India, and they are embedded in product and business domains where they own the pipelines, models, and metrics that support decisions at scale. Their work ranges from self-serve, AI-enabled analytics and experimentation through to executive reporting and strategic planning. The discipline is changing quickly, and the organisation is moving beyond traditional pipeline building toward AI-first data products, richer semantic and context layers, and greater enablement for self-serve data users. This leadership role is intended to guide that evolution across several important domains, while also helping to shape standards, culture, and direction across the broader analytics engineering community.

What you will do

• Lead multiple analytics engineering teams across different business domains, including direct management of the managers who run those teams, and take responsibility for performance, development, and wellbeing across the group.
• Own the medium- and longer-term roadmap for analytics engineering in your areas, prioritising the most valuable investments and making the case for them with senior stakeholders in product and the wider business.
• Take part in organisation-wide decisions about tooling, architecture, standards, and working practices, helping define how analytics engineering operates at Deliveroo beyond your immediate teams.
• Promote a data-products mindset across your teams, making sure that clear ownership, service-level expectations, observability, and data contracts are built into everyday delivery.
• Support and coach analytics engineering managers on leadership challenges such as performance, motivation, and team health, while encouraging strong technical discipline and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with recruiting to bring in high-quality, diverse analytics engineering talent across the domains you oversee.
• Use your technical credibility to contribute to architecture discussions and, where needed, step in directly to help solve problems and move work forward.

What you need to succeed

• Significant leadership experience in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data engineering, with practical SQL knowledge that you still use as part of your technical foundation.
• Demonstrated experience managing both individual contributors and people managers, including a history of developing other managers effectively.
• Evidence that you have owned a multi-quarter technical roadmap and led teams across several business domains in a matrixed environment, delivering measurable business impact.
• Strong technical understanding of the modern analytics engineering stack, including cloud data warehousing, transformation tooling, data modelling, and data quality practices, plus the ability to contribute credibly to architecture decisions and work hands-on when required.
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders at director and vice-president level, with the ability to align analytics investment to business priorities.
• Experience in marketplace, e-commerce, grocery, or retail analytics would be beneficial.
• Additional useful experience includes federated data architecture patterns, semantic and metrics-layer tooling, Python for data automation or pipeline work, and exposure to or research into AI for data, including semantic layers and pipeline development processes.
• Experience helping shape analytics organisational design is also advantageous, including team structure, role boundaries, and cross-functional alignment between analytics engineering, data science, and data engineering.

Why Deliveroo

Deliveroo says the work here is meaningful because it tackles real-world problems in a fast-moving marketplace that affects millions of people every day. The company describes itself as a place for food lovers, problem solvers, and community builders who want to improve how people shop and eat.

• You will work on a complex, always-on marketplace at significant scale.
• You can see the results of your work quickly in a low-hierarchy environment with high ownership.
• You will be trusted with large, ambiguous challenges and supported to grow through them.
• The culture is described as one for builders, with high standards, collaboration, flexible working, and continuous learning.
• You will share in the success you help create through competitive pay and equity opportunities.

Deliveroo also notes that it is now part of DoorDash, which brings broader reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on the role, collaboration may extend across teams, systems, and leaders from DoorDash and Wolt as part of a global group.

Inclusion and support

Deliveroo says it is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and aims to create a workplace where people from all backgrounds can do their best work and feel that they belong. The company welcomes applicants regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you have a disability or a long-term health condition and need support with your application or reasonable adjustments during recruitment, you will be able to request help after submitting your application so that the process is fair and accessible.

Rewards and benefits

• Competitive compensation tailored to the role and location.
• Potential annual bonus, sign-on bonus, or relocation assistance in some cases.
• Employer pension contributions up to 5% matched.
• Equity or share awards for some roles.
• Free Deliveroo Plus membership with free delivery and special offers.
• Team lunches from local restaurants.
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with more holiday added over time.
• One paid volunteering day each year.
• Core healthcare cover for single employees, with family cover available at the employee’s cost.
• On-site gym access at headquarters and discounted external gym membership.
• Access to wellbeing apps through GymPass, including fitness, mindfulness, and yoga services.
• Discounted dental insurance and other flexible benefits such as critical illness cover, partner life cover, travel insurance, and health assessments.
• Life assurance.
• Parental leave benefits from day one, including maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• Equipment to support working from home and a family-friendly culture.
• Free mortgage advice.
• Cycle to Work or Season Ticket Loan options depending on how you travel.
• Learning and development opportunities, including access to the RooLearn training platform.
• Regular employee resource group events such as dinners, dance classes, and in-office yoga.
• Summer and end-of-year celebrations.

How to apply

Applicants are invited to start the online application through the company’s careers site. The page also offers the option to sign up for job alerts if this role is not the right fit.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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