Lead Analytics Engineer

🏡🏢This is a Hybrid role, the Data Platform team work from our London (Shoreditch) Offices 1-2 days per week.

What You’ll Be Doing
As a Lead Analytics Engineer in our growing Data Platform team, you’ll lead a team of 3 Analytics Engineers responsible for building, maintaining, and optimising our modern data platform. You’ll ensure the organisation has seamless access to high-quality, tested, observable, and well-documented data.

This is a hands-on leadership role that balances deep technical work with people and project management. You’ll work with tools like Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Fivetran, and Monte Carlo, and collaborate with teams across the business, from Finance and Credit to Engineering and the Executive team. You’ll also take full ownership of the team’s roadmap, strategy, and delivery.

• Lead and mentor a team of 3 high performing Analytics Engineers, providing line management, regular 1:1s, feedback, and development support.
• Own the analytics engineering roadmap, prioritising and delivering projects that align with wider business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the company (including Finance, Credit, Commercial, Fincrime, and Engineering) to gather requirements and deliver high-impact data solutions.
• Act as the team’s main point of contact, clearly communicating plans, progress, challenges, and timelines.
• Manage and evolve the modern data stack, which includes Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, and Monte Carlo (for data observability).
• Design and maintain scalable dbt models and self-serve data tools (such as Looker) that empower analysts, data scientists, and non-technical users to access and explore high-quality data.
• Champion data quality and governance, ensuring data is accurate, consistent, observable, and well-tested across regions.
• Implement internal process improvements, including CI/CD, code reviews, observability alerts, and automation of manual workflows.

We’re Looking For 🔎

• Proven experience leading a team of data or analytics engineers, including at least 2 years direct line management and mentoring.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills – confident working with technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels.
• A strategic mindset with experience defining and delivering against a team roadmap, including balancing business priorities with technical improvements and paying down tech debt.
• Expert SQL skills and a solid understanding of data modelling approaches (e.g. Kimball).
• Hands-on experience with dbt, including working on large or complex dbt projects.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g. Snowflake) and ELT tools (e.g. Fivetran).
• Experience with data observability tools (e.g. Monte Carlo).
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. Looker, Mode, Tableau), including enabling self-serve access for non-technical users.
• A strong focus on data quality, testing, observability, and performance.
• A track record of delivering clean, documented, and production-grade data assets to support analysis and decision-making.

Diversity & Inclusion 🌈
We welcome, consider and encourage applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space where authenticity thrives, and everyone can do their best work.

Great Work Deserves Great Perks
We try not to take ourselves too seriously (all the time) so we make sure our office is decked out with a pool table, arcade machine, beer tap, and a couple of office dogs thrown in for good measure. Check out our benefits:
🏥 Private Healthcare including dental and opticians services through Vitality
✈️ Worldwide travel insurance through Vitality
🎁 Anniversary Rewards (£250, £500, £750, 4-week fully paid sabbatical)
👛 Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme up to 7% match
🏖️ 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
📖 Annual Learning and Wellbeing Budget
👪 Enhanced Parental Leave
🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme
🚂 Season Ticket Loan
💬 6 free therapy sessions per year
🐶 Dog Friendly Offices
🍫 Free drinks and snacks in our offices

Check out more of our benefits, values and mission here.