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dunnhumby Tech Stack

Retail intelligence platform connecting customer insight to loyalty and media decisions

Technology, Information and Media Brook Green, London 1,001–5,000 employees Founded 1989 Privately Held

dunnhumby operates a data science and loyalty platform for retail chains and consumer brands, built on a modern cloud-native stack (AWS, GCP, Azure, Spark, Airflow, BigQuery) with full observability (New Relic) and a headless frontend layer (React, TypeScript, Nx). The hiring mix reveals a sales-led expansion: active roles are heavily weighted toward sales (35 openings) and data (30), while the project backlog shows near-term focus on retail media monetization (self-serve ad platforms, measurement pipelines, network products) — indicating a strategic pivot from pure loyalty analytics toward transaction revenue through media.

Tech Stack 106 technologies

Core StackAWS Docker Kubernetes Apache Spark Apache Airflow Python FastAPI PySpark Redshift BigQuery React TypeScript Storybook New Relic Node.js Express Power BI Azure GCP Hive SQL Git Excel PowerPoint Nx CI/CD Fastify NET Core Google Cloud Pub/Sub Argo Workflows+72 more

What dunnhumby Is Building

Challenges

  • Global benefits renewal
  • Maximizing ad revenue
  • Contract renewal process
  • Complex workplace issues
  • Massive scale
  • Scaling retail media
  • Improving digital marketing performance
  • Understanding consumer behaviour
  • Upsell opportunities
  • Benefit supplier management

Active Projects

  • Real-time and batch data processing pipelines for retail media measurement solution
  • Retail media saas platform
  • Personalisation propositions for tesco uk
  • Retail media network product
  • Tesco media self-serve b2b advertising platform
  • Web-to-big-data workflow integration
  • Product strategy and roadmap alignment
  • Develop retail media product
  • Media enablement channel plan
  • Develop measurement strategy for tesco media propositions and channels

Hiring Activity

Accelerating140 roles · 65 in 30d

Department

Sales
35
Data
30
Engineering
18
Marketing
12
HR
9
Product
9
Ops
6
Design
4

Seniority

Senior
61
Lead
25
Mid
23
Junior
12
Manager
12
Director
1
Principal
1

Notable leadership hires: Client Lead, Price Promotion Consulting Lead, Category Management Lead, Director of Category Growth, Research Lead

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About dunnhumby

dunnhumby is a retail intelligence and customer loyalty platform serving major chains and consumer brands. Founded in 1989, the company now operates across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas with 1,001–5,000 employees. The platform sits at the intersection of customer analytics, loyalty programs, and retail media networks, helping retailers optimize pricing, promotions, and advertising inventory while enabling brands to reach consumers at scale. Revenue model spans advisory services, software licenses, and increasingly media transaction fees.

HeadquartersBrook Green, London
Company Size1,001–5,000 employees
Founded1989
Hiring MarketsUnited States, Japan, United Kingdom, Colombia, Mexico, India, Czechia, Canada

Frequently Asked Questions

What is dunnhumby's tech stack?

Multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) with Apache Spark, Hive, and Airflow for data pipelines; Python, FastAPI, PySpark for backend; React and TypeScript for frontend; BigQuery and Redshift for analytics; New Relic for observability; Docker and Kubernetes for orchestration.

What countries does dunnhumby hire in?

15 countries: United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Colombia, Mexico, India, Czechia, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Norway, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil, Hungary, and New Zealand.

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