Analytics Engineer

IG Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package (12%)

Private medical cover for you and your

Life insurance

Gym membership contribution

Generous holiday allowance (25 days +

Job summary

IG Group in London is seeking an Analytics Engineer to own the data layer powering Looker reporting and self-serve analysis. You will design, build and maintain the dbt models in BigQuery to enable scalable analytics across IG.

You'll collaborate with analysts and engineers to shape our data platform, develop batch and streaming pipelines on GCP, ensure data contracts and observability, and help create AI-ready data foundations for enterprise-wide insights.

Qualifications

• Experience building production data pipelines on GCP with BigQuery and Airflow.
• Strong SQL and Python, and familiarity with dbt modelling patterns.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage and observability in production.

Responsibilities

• Design and build batch and real-time data pipelines on GCP in BigQuery.
• Own the data quality, contracts, and observability for the delivery area.
• Develop and maintain connectors and integrations for IG's ingestion estate.
• Contribute to engineering standards, reviews, and CI/CD for datasets.
• Support ML data pipelines with lineage, reproducibility, and freshness guarantees.

Skills

Data modeling

SQL proficiency

Python scripting

ETL design

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

dbt

BigQuery

Airflow

Kafka

Cloud Run / GCP

Job description

So, who are we?

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

Job Title

Analytics Engineer

Job Description

So, who are we?

IG Group is a FTSE 100 fintech operating across five continents, serving over 1.4m customers and handling billions of dollars in transactions – built on scale, trust, and proof. We didn't pivot to innovation; it's how we've always operated. What that means for the people who work here is real: genuinely complex problems to solve, the technology and resources to tackle them properly, and the kind of scope that's rare in established businesses.

The bar is high – bring a curious and forward‑thinking mindset and we'll give you the platform to define what comes next.

Join us at IG – the future gets built here.

Your Team

You’ll join IG's global Data & Analytics team, working closely with analysts across the business to understand what they need from the data and how they use it. The models you build underpin the team's reporting, analysis and self‑serve tools, so your work has a direct impact on how analytics is delivered across IG.

It's a collaborative team that values quality, shares knowledge openly and is always looking for better ways of working. You’ll have the space to shape our modelling standards and practices, and the support to grow your skills as the team and platform evolve.

Your Role In The Team’s Success

Our global Data & Analytics team turns data into decisions across Commercial, Marketing, Product and Operations. We sit close to the business and own the modelled data layer that our analysts, dashboards, and AI tools rely on.

As our Analytics Engineer, you’ll own that layer. You’ll design, build and maintain the dbt models in BigQuery that power Looker reporting and self‑serve analysis — and make sure they’re trusted, documented and built to scale. You’ll play a central role as we evolve our warehouse into a global setup that supports every region we operate in, so the work you do will shape how analytics runs across IG.

This is a hands‑on role with real ownership. You’ll work day to day with analysts across the team, with Central Data and Engineering on upstream sources who depend on the data you ship.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build robust batch and real‑time data pipelines on GCP, including Kafka‑based event streams, BigQuery transformations, and Airflow‑orchestrated workflows, as part of the GCP consolidation and Medallion architecture build‑out
• Own data quality within your delivery area: define and implement data contracts, quality checks, and observability instrumentation so that pipeline health is visible and SLAs are met
• Develop and maintain in‑house connectors and third‑party native integrations that form part of IG’s ingestion estate, ensuring resilience, monitoring, and long‑term maintainability
• Contribute to engineering standards and best practices across the squad — including code review, dbt modelling patterns, CI/CD pipeline hygiene, and change control for shared datasets
• Support feature engineering and model data pipelines for Data Science, and help lay the foundations for AI‑ready data — including lineage, reproducibility, and freshness guarantees for ML workloads

What You’ll Need

• Proven hands‑on experience building and operating production‑grade data pipelines on GCP — including BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, GCS, and Cloud Run — with strong SQL and Python skills
• Solid experience with Apache Kafka or equivalent streaming technologies, including designing event‑driven ingestion patterns and troubleshooting real‑time data flows under operational conditions
• Familiarity with modern transformation tooling, particularly dbt, and an appreciation of Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture patterns and how they support self‑service analytics
• A quality‑first mindset: experience implementing data contracts, lineage tracking, observability tooling, and pipeline SLO monitoring in a production environment
• Comfortable working in a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of data governance requirements (lineage, access control, audit trails) and the discipline to operate within change control processes

The Perks

• Competitive salary
• Flexible Benefits Package on top of your salary (12%)
• Private medical cover for you and your family
• Life insurance
• Contribution to gym memberships
• 25 Days holiday, with 1 additional day off to celebrate your Birthday & 2 additional days off a year for voluntary work (28 in total)
• The option to buy or sell holiday days
• A comprehensive global and local onboarding process
• Enhanced primary (maternity), secondary (paternity), and shared parental pay and leave, as well as a range of support and benefits for parents