Lead Data Platform Engineer — Snowflake & Data as a Product

Funding Circle UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Barista coffee

Just Eat lunches (subsidised)

Learning allowance

Parental leave (award-winning)

Flexible working

Job summary

Funding Circle UK is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead the engineering of our Data Platform, including Snowflake, ingestion, and orchestration. You will drive the migration to a federated “Data as a Product” model and ensure scalable, secure data solutions.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts and AI Agents to enable data-driven decisions across the business. London hybrid work with two days in the office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Data & Analytics with architectural leadership experience.
• Deep Snowflake knowledge incl. RBAC and Iceberg/Open table formats.
• Advanced SQL, Python, and dbt model development.
• End-to-end data pipelines design with batch/streaming ingestion (Kafka/CDC) and Airflow orchestration.
• Strong data security/governance understanding, including PII handling.
• Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD expertise; able to write design docs.
• Ability to mentor and train others; communicate risks to stakeholders.
• Architect AI solutions and safe automated systems aligned with mission.

Responsibilities

• Set the platform engineering direction and convert target architecture into a plan.
• Own platform quality: Snowflake, ingestion, orchestration, CI/CD, observability, cost controls.
• Document decisions and drive governance with architecture review boards.
• Mentor engineers and promote rapid, deep code reviews.
• Enable domain teams, Data Scientists, Analysts and AI Agents to build on the platform.
• Lead Athena→Snowflake migration platform work and decommission legacy platform.
• Ensure on-call readiness, incident follow-ups and disaster recovery.
• Collaborate with Security and Data Governance for controls.

Skills

Snowflake RBAC

Advanced SQL

Python

Data governance

Infra as code

Architectural direction

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Kafka/CDC

CI/CD

Iceberg/Open table

Job description

Funding Circle UK is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to lead the engineering of our Data Platform, including Snowflake, ingestion, and orchestration. You will drive the migration to a federated “Data as a Product” model and ensure scalable, secure data solutions.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and collaborate with Data Scientists, Analysts and AI Agents to enable data-driven decisions across the business. London hybrid work with two days in the office.