Director of Data (m/f/d)

Moonfare; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical and dental cover

Growth budget £1,500 or 2% of base

25 vacation days + tenure increment

£12 daily lunch allowance

FitnessFirst membership

Cycle to work

Annual bonus potential

Job summary

Moonfare is seeking a Director of Data in London to own the data strategy and execution at a pivotal growth moment. You will lead a cross-functional Data Engineering and Analytics function, shaping how data powers investor services, operations, and future market expansion.

You will sit at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and business, guiding architecture, governance, and data quality while ensuring regulatory compliance and executive credibility.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data engineering, AI, and architecture with hands-on delivery.
• Experience leading a multi-disciplinary data team in a regulated financial services environment.
• Strong ability to translate business goals into scalable data platforms.
• Proven track record building data platforms that support AI-driven operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the data strategy, building platforms, pipelines, and governance for scalable data.
• Unify a 6-person data team across data engineering, analytics, and architecture into one cohesive unit.
• Architect and build infrastructure that sources, structures, and serves data across use cases.
• Partner with Engineering and Product to enable self-serve reporting and operational intelligence.
• Stay deeply involved in technical detail while representing data to executives and the Board.
• Embed compliance and regulatory thinking into every layer of the platform.

Skills

Data engineering

AI systems

Data architecture

Team leadership

Regulated finance

Data governance

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Director of Data (m/f/d)

Reporting to the CTO, you will own the data strategy and execution for Moonfare at a pivotal moment in our growth. We are building the infrastructure and intelligence layer that will power how we serve investors, operate as a business, and scale into new markets, and data is the foundation everything else depends on. You will inherit a capable team and a real mandate: to bring it together, raise the bar, and build a data function that is fit for where Moonfare is going, not just where it has been. The role demands someone who can hold the strategic vision and get into the technical detail, knowing when to lead from the front and when to elevate the people around them. In return, you get a rare scope, shaping how a fast-growing private equity platform thinks about, structures, and activates its data from the ground up.

This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and the wider business, leading our combined Data Engineering and Analytics function. The team is 6 people across pipelines, analytics, and architecture who will come together under your leadership into one cohesive function with a shared mission. The team's work underpins how Moonfare makes decisions, serves its investors, and builds towards an AI-driven operating model, making this one of the highest-leverage functions in the business.

You will

• Define and execute the data strategy for Moonfare, building the platforms, pipelines, and governance that give the business a reliable, scalable, and intelligent data foundation to grow on.
• Bring 6 people across data engineering, analytics, and architecture into one cohesive team, setting the operating model, rituals, and standards that make the function more than the sum of its parts.
• Architect and build the infrastructure that sources, structures, and serves data across investment, investor relations, operations, and compliance use cases.
• Partner closely with Engineering and Product to make data the substrate that our AI and agentic capabilities are built on, and with the business to enable self-serve reporting and operational intelligence.
• Stay deep in the technical detail across architecture reviews, design decisions, and pipeline trade-offs, while also representing data credibly to executive stakeholders and the Board.
• Embed compliance and regulatory thinking into every layer of the platform, recognising the demands of operating in a regulated financial services environment.

The next Moonfarian

• You bring deep, hands-on expertise across data engineering, AI, architecture, and pipelines. You lead the strategy and get into the weeds with your team on the hardest technical problems, contributing directly rather than just directing from a distance.
• You've built or significantly evolved a modern data platform in a regulated financial services environment, and you understand what compliance, auditability, and data quality actually demand at the architecture level.
• You have a strong, opinionated point of view on what modern AI and agentic systems need from a data function, and you've put that thinking into practice in real products and platforms, not just on slides.
• You're an experienced people leader who has unified or scaled a multi-disciplinary data team, and can bring engineers, analysts, and architects together around a shared mission while knowing when to roll up your sleeves alongside them.
• You thrive in pressured, high-ambiguity scale-up environments and are energised by carrying both the strategic load and a meaningful share of the technical work.
• You're a credible partner to executives and cross-functional stakeholders, able to translate between business outcomes and technical reality.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in London. This is a hybrid role with office attendance required 4 days/week.

Invest in Yourself

• Ownership and Impact: You are empowered to bring ideas, make decisions, and see your work directly contribute to Moonfare's success.
• Transparent Environment: We believe in open communication. You will receive regular updates on company strategy, performance against our KPIs, and key business decisions.
• Personal Growth: We support your development with an individual growth budget of £1,500 or 2% of your base salary (whichever is higher).
• Invest in Your Future: We support your long-term financial goals with a workplace pension via SmartPension, where Moonfare contributes 3% and combined employer and employee contributions reach at least 8%.
• Relax and Recharge: You start with 25 vacation days and you'll receive one additional day for each year of tenure, up to a maximum of 30 days. Moonfare gifts two days during our annual end of year company shutdown.
• Daily Lunch: Enjoy a £12 daily lunch allowance via Deliveroo on the days you're in the London office, delivered or ready to pick up nearby.
• Fitness and Wellbeing: Stay active with a subsidised FitnessFirst membership, with £30 covered by Moonfare each month and no joining fee, plus a monthly guest pass and company wellness events.
• Health Cover: Look after your health with private medical and dental cover through Bupa, including Select Complete Healthcare across 600 partner facilities and Dental Plan Level 2, with dependants covered up to age 24.
• Cycle to Work: Ride in tax-efficiently through our salary-sacrifice scheme via Forest, available for an eBike or eMoped.
• A Culture of Excellence: Join a team of ambitious, smart, and committed professionals who are passionate about revolutionising private market investing.
• Performance Reward: As a performance-first company, we reward strong performance twice a year, so your impact translates directly into how your pay grows - through potential base salary increases and/or bonuses.

Our Values

• Our clients come first, Moonfare comes second, and we prioritise ourselves third - Client-Centric Focus. Putting clients first means creating value for them is essential. Placing Moonfare second signifies that our individual professional future at Moonfare depends on the company's commercial success. Prioritising ourselves third reflects our humility in putting clients and Moonfare before personal interests.
• We pursue excellence and honor our promises - Commitment to Excellence. We hold ourselves to the highest standards, taking responsibility for our failures, and celebrating our successes. We commit to deadlines and stick to them and we learn from our mistakes.
• We are here to win and to celebrate our collective achievements - Win together. We are mission-focused and think and act like owners. We exemplify the attitude we expect and each of us commits to do what it takes to succeed.
• We foster personal growth but each of us earns our place as a Moonfarian through merit - Growth and Merit. We hire, retain, and develop exceptional people and invest in empowering them to excel. We must all earn our place at the table every day.

We understand the important role that diversity plays in our success. Different backgrounds, experiences and ideas push us further and raise the bar. We're committed to developing an inclusive and safe culture where everyone - regardless of colour, race, religion, sex, origin, sexuality, disability, marital status, citizenship or gender identity - knows that they are an integral part of the team and can bring their full potential to their work.