Analytics Engineer

Liberis; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberis is building an embedded finance platform with a growing Product & Engineering team. As an Analytics Engineer, you will design and own the data transformation layer, turning raw data into reliable analytics assets.

You’ll build data models and metrics powering dashboards and business decisions, collaborating with data engineers, analysts, and stakeholders. You’ll also leverage AI tools to accelerate development, while ensuring proper review, testing, and governance.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on analytics engineering or data engineering experience with dbt in production.
• Strong SQL with window functions, CTEs, and complex joins.
• Dimensional modeling experience and data modeling knowledge.
• Shipped data models used by real stakeholders in production.
• Git proficiency and experience with CI/CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Design & build dbt models with a clear layering and data modelling approach.
• Own data model quality through comprehensive testing.
• Build semantic layers (LookML, dbt Semantic Model, or equivalent) for self-serve analytics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into data models.
• Use AI tools to accelerate SQL/dbt writing, generate tests, and automate tasks.
• Review peers' designs for pattern, testing, and architecture quality.
• Evolve models based on user feedback and handle schema changes gracefully.
• Automate analytical work for stakeholders using lightweight Python/SQL workflows.

Skills

dbt

SQL

Dimensional modeling

AI coding tools

Git

CI/CD

Tools

LookML

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Some key info for you about Liberis

We were founded in 2007

We have provided over $3bn of funding to small businesses so far

We have been named in CNBC & Statista Top 150 UK Fintechs for 2025

We're a global team, with a dynamic presence in 6 key locations around the world

We're a thriving community of over 290 innovative minds

We're a vibrant melting pot, celebrating over 27 nationalities in our team

Our team brings experience from over 740 previous companies, from startups to global giants

We have just been named as one of FinTech's Finest 50 by Welcome to the Jungle

• We're proud to be an accredited Real Living Wage employer, ensuring everyone is paid fairly for the great work they do!

Our Product & Engineering Team

Liberis is building the embedded finance platform that lets partners around the world offer innovative funding products to their small business customers. We're a growth-stage fintech with teams in London, Nottingham, Atlanta, Stockholm, Munich and Mumbai, and we're building a global Product, Data & Engineering team that thrives on autonomy, ownership, and is focused on impact! Our teams solve real-world problems for small businesses, shaping products that unlock opportunity at scale.

Engineering is going through an AI-first transformation, rethinking how teams are structured and how they ship. It's changing what a small team can do! We empower our teams to make decisions, move fast, and take full responsibility for the solutions they deliver. You'll join a team where curiosity is encouraged and collaboration across Product, Data, Delivery and Engineering is the norm.

The role

As an Analytics Engineer, you'll design and own the transformation layer that turns raw operational data into reliable, well-documented analytical assets.

Working at the intersection of data engineering and business analytics, you'll build trusted data models, metrics and entities that power dashboards, reporting and business decisions across Liberis. You'll take ownership of analytical problems from initial discovery through to production, working closely with data engineers, analysts and business stakeholders.

You'll also use AI tools such as Claude Code and Codex to accelerate delivery, automate routine work and improve how analytical solutions are developed - while maintaining appropriate review, testing and human oversight.

Success in this role means creating high-quality data products that stakeholders trust, enabling greater self-service and making our analytics platform easier to maintain and evolve.

What you'll get to do

• Design & build dbt models with a clear layering and data modelling approach.
• Own data model quality through comprehensive testing.
• Build semantic layers (LookML, dbt Semantic Model, or equivalent) to enable self-serve analytics.
• Collaborate across functions to understand business requirements and translate them into data models; provide feedback on downstream usage.
• Use AI tools effectively to accelerate SQL/dbt writing, generate tests, automate routine work, and build an end-to‑end harness from plan to production with a proper human‑in‑the‑loop workflow.
• Review peers' work, focusing on design patterns, testing strategy, and architectural decisions.
• Maintain and evolve models based on user feedback; handle schema changes with minimal downstream disruption.
• Automate analytical work for stakeholders using lightweight Python/SQL workflows when appropriate.

The interview process

• Screening call with Chess - Internal Recruiter (30 mins)
• Video interview with the Hiring Manager (1 hour)
• Technical interview with a member of Engineering team (1 hour)
• Video interview with the wider Liberis team (1 hour)

What we think you'll need

• Proven hands on analytics engineering, data engineering, or BI engineering experience, working with dbt in production.
• Strong SQL - window functions, CTEs, and complex joins; can explain query performance.
• Dimensional modeling or data modeling experience; understand grain, facts, dimensions, historization, and various data modelling topologies.
• Production judgment - have shipped models used by real stakeholders; can discuss what worked and what didn't.
• Git & CI/CD - comfortable with PRs, code review, and version control.
• AI coding tools - hands‑on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, or a similar LLM IDE.

Our hybrid approach

Working together in person helps us move faster, collaborate better, and build a great Liberis culture. This role requires at least three days per week in the office, with flexibility around which days depending on team and business needs. Our ways of working may evolve over time, including office attendance expectations. At Liberis, we embrace flexibility as a core part of our culture, while also valuing the importance of the time our teams spend together in the office.