Lead Data Engineer

nCino; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Engineer, where you will lead a dynamic team in developing innovative cloud banking solutions. This role involves collaborating with product teams, optimizing data storage, and implementing scalable APIs. Your leadership will drive the team to excel in a high-energy environment, ensuring that client needs are met with cutting-edge technology. With a focus on continuous improvement and best practices, this position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of banking technology while working in a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams and driving high-performance outcomes.
• Expertise in data modelling and building scalable data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead development teams to innovate and solve customer problems.
• Design and implement secure APIs and backend services.

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Agile/Scrum

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Tools

Databricks (PySpark)

GitHub

Kotlin

Java

PHP

Job description

nCino offers exciting career opportunities for individuals who want to join the worldwide leader in cloud banking.

We are seeking a Lead Engineer to join our team and to work on a variety of assignments alongside our product and commercial management teams. The role can be based either at our offices in London or Winnersh (Reading, Berkshire) or home working is available. Duties will include cloud infrastructure development as well as working closely with our product teams on existing projects and new innovations to support company growth and profitability.

nCino, the global leader in cloud banking, has recently acquired FullCircl. This position will be within our FullCircl brand, which was established in 2021 through the merger of Artesian Solutions and DueDil. FullCircl subsequently acquired W2 Global Data Solutions to further enhance its capabilities.

FullCircl connects the insight you need when it matters most. We partner with more than 500 of the UKs leading banks, insurers and FinTech to deliver market leading insight on their business customers. Clients use our product to solve three mission critical business challenges, namely how to: identify & acquire, verify & onboard and retain & grow customers.

We realise at FullCircl that it takes a dedicated team of brilliant people to continually innovate, push boundaries and exceed expectations. We pride ourselves in bringing together a diverse group of individuals with the skills, energy and shared passion to help us do amazing things.

LEAD ENGINEER Key Responsibilities

• Leadership

  • Develop a deep understanding of our customers, the problems they are trying to solve, and how we can help solve them.

  • Absorb and process information from many sources to form your own view of where the market is going and how we can develop our product to meet these new challenges.

  • Lead by Example by leading all sides of development in the team.

  • Collaborate with other teams to better understand the business requirements and provide technical solutions.

  • Lead and Contribute to the development of best practices and standards for the team.

  • Challenge team to always break work down into smallest unit possible.

  • Drive team to be a high-performance team.

• Data

  • Plan, Design, and Implement scalable data pipelines.

  • Develop and implement data models and algorithms to support data science and machine learning initiatives.

  • Optimize data storage and retrieval systems for maximum performance.

  • Continuously monitor and improve the performance of the data solutions to meet our clients' needs.

• Software

  • Plan, Design, and Implement secure scalable APIs and Backend Services.

  • Optimize APIs and Backend Services to maximize performance.

  • Monitor and improve the performance of APIs and Backend Services.

  • Enterprise Level software development, performant/high availability.

LEAD ENGINEER Technical Requirements

• Leadership

  • Previous experience in a team leadership role.

  • Experience with Agile/Scrum Framework.

  • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

  • Excellent communication skills, both at a deep technical level and stakeholder level.

• Data

  • Expert experience with Databricks (PySpark).

  • Experience building and maintaining complex ETL Projects, end-to-end (ingestion, processing, storage).

  • Expert knowledge and experience with data modelling, data access, and data storage techniques.

  • Experience with both relational and document databases.

  • Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.

  • Familiarity with Machine Learning, Statistics, and AI is desirable.

  • Experience with Source Control (GitHub)

• Software

  • Expert experience with Kotlin (or Java) is required.

  • Demonstrable experience building secure and scalable JVW-based solutions.

  • Strong experience in writing testable, modular, and extensible backend-code.

  • Experience with system design.

  • Experience in PHP is highly desirable.

  • Experience with Source Control (GitHub)

If you thrive in a high-energy, entrepreneurial environment, we invite you to share your passion, ideas and excitement at nCino.

nCino provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetics or other protected groups. In addition to federal law requirements, nCino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

nCino is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, nCino will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact us at [e-mail].

Our commitment to inclusion and equality includes a strong belief that the diversity of our team is instrumental to our success. We strive to create workplaces where employees are empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.