Head of Data

Overview

Define and lead Evergreen Finance’s enterprise data strategy, aligning data capabilities with business objectives. Own and evolve the data platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, and fit for analytics and operational use. Establish and embed data governance, quality, and standards across the organisation. Build and lead a high-performing data engineering function, setting delivery standards and ways of working. Drive data culture and maturity, enabling self-service analytics and increasing data literacy across business teams. Act as the senior point of communication and advocacy for data, translating between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Strategy and Leadership
  • Define a clear data vision and roadmap aligned to business priorities and measurable outcomes.
  • Establish the operating model for data, including roles, responsibilities, and ways of working.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on data-driven decision-making.
  • Secure and manage budget, tooling, and investment in data capabilities.
• Data Platform Ownership
  • Own the end-to-end data platform architecture, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and access layers.
  • Ensure the platform is secure, reliable, scalable, and cost-effective.
  • Set and maintain standards for data modelling, pipelines, and platform engineering practices.
  • Oversee vendor/tooling selection and implementation where required.
• Data Governance and Quality
  • Define and implement a data governance framework, including ownership, stewardship, and policies.
  • Establish processes for data quality monitoring, lineage, and metadata management.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory and data protection requirements.
  • Promote consistent definitions and a single source of truth across the organisation.
• Delivery and Engineering Leadership
  • Build, lead, and develop a data engineering team.
  • Define and implement delivery processes, including agile practices, prioritisation, and backlog management.
  • Ensure high standards of engineering quality, documentation, and maintainability.
  • Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term platform sustainability.
• Data Adoption and Maturity
  • Drive self-service analytics capability, enabling business users to access and use data confidently.
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify high-value use cases and data products.
  • Lead initiatives to improve data literacy and adoption across the organisation.
  • Establish feedback loops to improve the usability and value of data assets continuously.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
  • Act as the primary interface between technical teams and business stakeholders.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and value of data initiatives in business terms.
  • Build strong relationships across departments to embed data into decision-making processes.

Your skills & experience

Essential

• Proven experience defining and executing data strategy at the organisational level, including platform ownership.
• Strong background in modern data platforms (e.g. cloud data warehousing, pipelines, governance tooling).
• Demonstrable leadership of data engineering or platform teams, including delivery management and capability building.
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks, including data quality, lineage, and stewardship.
• Track record of improving data maturity and enabling self-service analytics in a business setting.
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence cross-functional adoption of data-driven practices.

Desired

• Experience building a data function from scratch or in low-maturity environments.
• Familiarity with financial services / regulated environments, including data compliance considerations.
• Exposure to data product thinking and domain-oriented architectures.
• Experience implementing or scaling self-service BI and analytics tooling (e.g. Power BI, Looker, Tableau).
• Knowledge of data literacy and enablement programmes to support organisation-wide adoption.
• Understanding of AI/ML enablement strategies and how they build on a strong data platform.

About us

Ahoy there! We’re Evergreen Finance London! Founded in 2014, Evergreen Finance London ltd is a specialist UK-based consumer finance provider. With deep roots in data science, AI-driven decisioning, and regulatory compliance, our business has built a reputation for deploying ethical, tech-enabled lending products that meet modern consumer needs. Evergreen Finance London is the employer and strategic engine behind consumer fintech brands like Moneyboat. We empower brilliant people to build trusted, tech-enabled financial solutions that puts people first. Our focus is long-term value - for our teams, our users, and the industry.

We are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and uphold a renowned standard of compliance, across both direct lending and brokerage services. Our brand Moneyboat, is a UK-based direct lender that provides consumers with short-term loans from £200 to £1,500. We know the value of flexibility, creativity, and innovation in today’s fintech space, and we work hard to create and deliver best-in-class experiences that support our customers and give them the confidence they need to live life to the full.

Vision, Mission & Values

Our vision, mission & values are what drive the amazing work we do. From the decisions we make to the actions we take, they form the foundations of Evergreen Finance London's brand & strategy. Our vision describes our view of the world because of Evergreen Finance London. It's the way we want it to be and the reason we keep going, even if times might seem tough. Empowering Financial Confidence, with seamless, responsible, and innovative financial solutions. When people have access to the financial resources and knowledge that are right for them, we know they can do great things. We exist to help them get access to a solution that's right for them, even when others might have refused to help. Our core set of values are what we hold to be true, no matter what. We have four core values here at Evergreen Finance London, Accountability, Care, Diligence and Collaboration. Our vision, mission, and values guide everything that we do. They're the fundamental "pillars" of our company that make us who we are, and help to ensure that anyone we interact with (internal or external) remembers Evergreen Finance London, what we do, and what we stand for.

Benefits

• Time-off on Birthday
• Gym benefits
• Childcare benefits
• Health cash plan
• Aviva pension
• Professional subscription benefits