Lead Analytics Engineer

Capital on Tap; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer to join their team in London. This role involves leading a team of analytics engineers, managing data solutions, and ensuring data quality. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, expertise in SQL, and experience with various data tools. The company offers a hybrid work environment and a range of benefits, including private healthcare and annual learning budgets.

Benefits

Private healthcare, dental, and optical insurance

Worldwide travel insurance

Anniversary rewards and fully paid sabbaticals

Salary sacrifice pension scheme with up to 7% match

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Annual learning and wellbeing budget

Enhanced parental leave

Cycle-to-work scheme

Season ticket loans

Free therapy sessions

Dog-friendly offices

Free drinks and snacks

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience with at least 2 years in line management.
• Strategic mindset with experience in defining and executing team roadmaps.
• Expertise in SQL and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of 3 Analytics Engineers.
• Own the analytics engineering roadmap and prioritize projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver impactful data solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Data Quality

SQL

Data Modeling

BI Tools

Tools

Fivetran

Snowflake

dbt

Looker

Monte Carlo

Job description

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We are Capital on Tap, founded with the mission to help small business owners and make their lives easier. We provide an all-in-one business credit card & spend management platform that helps business owners save time and money. We proudly serve over 200,000 businesses worldwide, aiming to support 1 million small businesses by 2030.

Why Join Us? We empower you to innovate, solve complex problems, and take ownership. Thrive in our scaling, agile environment. This role is hybrid, with the Data Platform team working from our London (Shoreditch) offices 1-2 days per week.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead and mentor a team of 3 Analytics Engineers, providing management, feedback, and development support.
• Own the analytics engineering roadmap, prioritizing projects aligned with business objectives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to gather requirements and deliver impactful data solutions.
• Act as the main point of contact for the team, communicating plans, progress, and challenges.
• Manage and evolve the data stack, including Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Looker, and Monte Carlo.
• Design and maintain scalable dbt models and self-serve data tools to enable data access for analysts, data scientists, and non-technical users.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and observability across regions.
• Implement process improvements such as CI/CD, code reviews, and automation.

We're Looking For

• Proven leadership experience with at least 2 years in line management of data or analytics engineers.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, comfortable with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Strategic mindset with experience in defining and executing team roadmaps.
• Expertise in SQL, data modeling (e.g., Kimball), and hands-on experience with dbt, Snowflake, ELT tools like Fivetran, and data observability tools like Monte Carlo.
• Experience with BI tools such as Looker, enabling self-serve data access.
• Focus on data quality, testing, observability, and performance.

Diversity & Inclusion

We welcome applications from all who share our commitment to inclusivity. Join us in creating a space for authenticity and excellence.

Perks & Benefits

• Private healthcare, dental, and optical insurance through Vitality.
• Worldwide travel insurance.
• Anniversary rewards and fully paid sabbaticals.
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme with up to 7% match.
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Annual learning and wellbeing budget.
• Enhanced parental leave, cycle-to-work scheme, season ticket loans.
• Free therapy sessions, dog-friendly offices, free drinks and snacks.

Check out more benefits, values, and our mission on our website.

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Seniority Level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Hospitals and Healthcare, Non-profit, Government