Senior Analytics Engineer | London, UK

Funding Circle; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job description

Senior Analytics Engineer

Funding Circle London, United Kingdom

Posted: 5 days ago | Type: Hybrid Job | Contract: Permanent | Salary: Competitive

We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Data Engineering team which sits under Tech and Data. We have opportunities across multiple teams, each tackling unique challenges and building high impact data models to power critical reporting and self-serve analytics.

This is a unique opportunity to help build a top tier Analytics Engineering function, with the full backing of the business. We're investing heavily in the people, tools, and technology needed to make it happen - and giving you the chance to play a key role in shaping its future.

Who are we?

We're Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed. At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That's why we've made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow.

The role

• Building and owning high quality dbt models, ensuring they are performant, well documented and thoroughly tested.
• Collaborating with analytics and data scientists to understand their needs and build models that drive insights and decision making.
• Champion best practices for data modelling, transformation, and governance, in your immediate time and across the business.
• Consult on our evolving data platform, advising on the tooling, infrastructure and practices needed to enable best-in-class Analytics Engineering.

What we're looking for

• Strong SQL skills, with experience writing efficient and well structured queries.
• Hands on experience with DBT, building and maintaining modular, scalable data models that follow best practices.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modelling.
• Familiarity with AWS data services (S3, Athena, Glue).
• Experience with Airflow for scheduling and orchestrating workflows.
• Experience working with data lakes or modern data warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery).
• A pragmatic problem solver who can balance technical excellence with business needs.

At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the requirements.

Why join us?

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We're proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

As a flexible-first employer we offer hybrid working at Funding Circle, and we've long believed in a 'best of both' approach to in-office collaboration and non-office days. We expect our teams to be in our London office two times a week, where you can take advantage of our newly refurbished hybrid working space, barista made coffee and subsidised lunches (via JustEat) every day!

A few highlights:

• Health: Private Medical Insurance through Aviva, Dental Insurance through Bupa, MediCash, access to free online therapy sessions and exclusive discounts with Hertility for reproductive health support.
• Wealth: Octopus Money Coach, free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.
• Development: Dedicated annual learning allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
• Lifestyle: Wellhub (for fitness discounts), Electric Car Scheme and more!

And finally, we have award winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.

Ready to make a difference? We'd love to hear from you.