Lead Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & Data as a Product

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London office

Flexible-first

Barista coffee

Subsidised lunches

Award-winning parental leave

Job summary

Funding Circle’s Data Platform team is building a Snowflake‑based platform and migrating to a federated \"Data as a Product\" model. This role will lead the engineering of that platform, shaping architecture, RBAC, ingestion, orchestration (Airflow) and CI/CD.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish standards, and partner with data scientists, analysts and AI agents to enable safe, scalable data products across the business.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data & Analytics with architectural leadership experience.
• Deep Snowflake knowledge including Iceberg/Open table formats and RBAC.
• Advanced SQL, Python and enterprise‑grade dbt model development.
• Experience designing end‑to‑end data pipelines (batch, streaming, Kafka/CDC) with Airflow.
• Strong data security/governance understanding and IAC/CI‑CD skills.
• Ability to write clear design docs and communicate risks to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience architecting AI solutions and training builders across the company.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction of the Data Platform and translate target architecture into a plan.
• Own platform quality: Snowflake infra, RBAC, ingestion patterns, orchestration, observability, cost controls.
• Make technical decisions, document them, and escalate cross‑domain issues.
• Grow and mentor engineers, promote fast but deep review culture.
• Enable domain teams, data scientists, analysts and AI agents to build on the platform.
• Lead Snowflake migration workstreams and decommission legacy systems.
• Maintain on‑call quality, incident follow‑ups, runbooks and disaster recovery planning.
• Oversee security/governance and vendor relationships; communicate trade‑offs to leadership.
• Collaborate with Principal Engineer to deliver platform engineering plan.

Skills

Snowflake

RBAC

SQL

Python

dbt

Airflow

CI/CD

Data governance

Tools

Kafka

Iceberg/Open table formats

Pyspark

Job description

Funding Circle’s Data Platform team is building a Snowflake‑based platform and migrating to a federated \"Data as a Product\" model. This role will lead the engineering of that platform, shaping architecture, RBAC, ingestion, orchestration (Airflow) and CI/CD.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish standards, and partner with data scientists, analysts and AI agents to enable safe, scalable data products across the business.