Analytics Engineer - (Regulatory Reporting)

Starling Bank; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking digital bank that is reshaping the financial landscape! As an Analytics Engineer, you'll enhance our data warehouse using SQL and dbt, while collaborating across teams to deliver impactful insights. This role offers the chance to work in a hybrid environment, where innovation and teamwork are paramount. With a culture that values self-driven individuals, you'll thrive in an atmosphere that encourages ownership and creativity. Enjoy generous benefits, including flexible holidays and private medical insurance, as you contribute to a mission-driven organization that prioritizes customer care and technological advancement.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Extra day off for your birthday

Annual leave increase with service

Paid volunteering time

Company enhanced pension scheme

Life insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Generous family-friendly policies

Perkbox membership

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills and experience with dbt for data modeling.
• Ability to communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Translate data requirements into robust data models.
• Collaborate with teams to meet business goals and maintain documentation.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Git

Java

Python

C

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

We're a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We're a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are aligned to divisions covering the following Banking Services & Products, Customer Identity & Financial Crime and Data & ML Engineering. Our Data teams are excited about delivering meaningful and impactful insights to both the business and more importantly our customers. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

We're searching for an experienced Analytics Engineer to help us enhance our data warehouse. You'll primarily work in SQL with dbt (BigQuery) but have the opportunity to work in other programming languages, expanding your skillset and making a significant impact on our data capabilities. We're looking for someone who's eager to learn and grow with us as we leverage multiple technologies to build pipeline solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Translate data requirements from across the organisation into robust and reusable data models
• Seek out and understand the reasons behind inconsistencies in data
• Follow established SDLC standards / processes for rapid and reliable releasing of changes to production
• Maintain consistent and clear documentation and definitions across the data warehouse
• Work across multiple technologies (e.g. SQL, Java, Terraform)
• Collaborate with multiple teams to help meet business goals

Requirements

• Excellent SQL skills
• Previous experience working with dbt and developing data architecture
• Ability to communicate to stakeholders across a range of technical backgrounds
• Experience in code management and version control using Git
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment

Desirable:

• Worked with other programming languages such as Java / Python / C
• Have developed infrastructure in Terraform
• Worked with financial data and / or regulatory reporting
• Experience working with AWS and / or GCP tooling

Interview process

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

• Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
• Stage 2 - Take home challenge
• Stage 3 - 60 mins technical interview with two team members
• Stage 3 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
• An extra day's holiday for your birthday
• Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
• Generous family-friendly policies
• Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
• Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

About Us

You may be put off applying for a role because you don't tick every box. Forget that! While we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we're always open to discussion. So, if you're excited about working with us, but aren't sure if you're 100% there yet, get in touch anyway. We're on a mission to radically reshape banking - and that starts with our brilliant team. Whatever came before, we're proud to bring together people of all backgrounds and experiences who love working together to solve problems.

Starling Bank is an equal opportunity employer, and we're proud of our ongoing efforts to foster diversity & inclusion in the workplace. Individuals seeking employment at Starling Bank are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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