Data Platform Lead: Snowflake & Data as a Product

Remote Worker LTD.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work in London

Barista coffee and Just Eat lunches

Job summary

Funding Circle is seeking a senior Data Platform Lead to drive the engineering of a federated, data-as-a-product platform in London. You will own Snowflake infrastructure, RBAC, ingestion patterns, Airflow orchestration, and cost controls while mentoring engineers and aligning with cross-functional teams.

You will lead architectural decisions, define standards, and partner with security and governance to ensure safe, scalable data delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data & Analytics with architectural leadership for engineers.
• Deep Snowflake expertise including RBAC and data contracts.
• Advanced SQL, Python, and dbt model development.
• End-to-end data pipeline design: batch, streaming, and file-based ingestion.
• Strong data security and governance understanding, including PII handling.
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD with reliable release processes.
• Proven ability to write design docs and discuss risks with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of the Data Platform and translate target architecture into a sequenced plan.
• Own platform quality: Snowflake infra, ingestion, orchestration (Airflow), observability, cost controls.
• Document decisions and escalate cross-domain topics to the architecture review board.
• Grow the team: mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and fast, deep code reviews.
• Enable data scientists, analysts, and AI agents to build on the platform with reusable standards.
• Lead Athena → Snowflake migration workstreams and decommission legacy components.
• Partner with Security and Data Governance to ensure security controls across the platform.
• Manage vendor relationships, support cases, escalations, and roadmap inputs.
• Present trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and guide architecture discussions.

Skills

Data platform leadership

Architectural direction

Mentoring engineers

Stakeholder communication

AI tooling awareness

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

CI/CD

RBAC

Kafka/CDC

Iceberg/OpenTable

Job description

Funding Circle is seeking a senior Data Platform Lead to drive the engineering of a federated, data-as-a-product platform in London. You will own Snowflake infrastructure, RBAC, ingestion patterns, Airflow orchestration, and cost controls while mentoring engineers and aligning with cross-functional teams.

You will lead architectural decisions, define standards, and partner with security and governance to ensure safe, scalable data delivery.