Senior Analytics Engineer / Tech Lead

Senior Analytics Engineer / Tech Lead

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We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer/Tech Lead to join our Data Engineering team. Funding Circle backs small businesses to succeed. We believe the world needs small businesses, and we strive to help them get the finance they need to grow. With more than a decade of expertise, we’ve built a game‑changer platform that reshapes SME lending, delivering lightning‑fast decisions in minutes.

Role

• Owns the data modeling strategy, sets standards for data modeling, transformations, and governance.
• Leads the design and implementation of new features, such as the creation of a new star schema and other best practices to optimise data usability.
• Sets best practices and standards on how we use SQL, dbt, Python, PySpark and/or other languages to solve business problems.
• Becomes an expert in the business subject area the team is working on, holding expertise on both the business requirements and the technical implementation.
• Delivers high quality code, provides technical mentorship and ensures the team builds scalable, maintainable data models.
• Co‑owns the backlog with the Engineering Manager and helps to break down technical requirements.
• Proactively problem‑solves, identifies and confidently mitigates any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in day‑to‑day work.

What we’re looking for

• Extensive experience in SQL, Python, PySpark and/or other relevant data‑processing languages.
• Extensive experience in dbt and ideally Airflow (or other orchestration tools).
• Extensive experience in Entity‑Relationship modelling and Dimensional modelling.
• Experience with Cloud Data Warehousing (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery) and Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Familiarity with Tableau.
• Ideally previous experience in Financial Services / Banking.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills and the ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Excellent communication skills.

At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams, so please apply even if your experience does not align perfectly with the requirements.

Why join us?

We celebrate differences and are proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace. As a flexible‑first employer we offer hybrid work and expect teams to be in our London office three times a week. We offer a range of benefits including:

• Flexibility: Benefit allowance.
• Health: Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Assessments, eye care vouchers, flu jabs, Wellhub, Employee Assistance Programme, free Digital GP for you and children under 16.
• Wealth: Life Assurance, Income Protection, Critical Illness Cover, financial coaching, tax‑advantaged share scheme, free mortgage advisor partnership, and discounts through Perks at Work.
• Development: Annual Learning & Development allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
• Lifestyle: Electric Car Scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, Season Ticket Loans, etc.

We also have award‑winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner, adoption leave, bereavement leave, and fertility treatment leave.

Senior level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

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