Lending Analytics Engineering Lead (GCP/Looker)

Allica Bank; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full onboarding support

Flexible working

Regular social activities

Pension contributions

Discretionary bonus scheme

Private health cover

Life assurance

Family friendly policies including new

Job summary

Allica Bank is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer to own the Lending data product on GCP and Looker, bridging analytics, data engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data models that support reporting, decision‑making, and emergent AI‑driven use cases.

You will lead the analytics engineering squad, set standards for data modelling, validation and usage, and drive data quality across datasets to enable trusted insights and strategic analytics across the bank.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and data modelling experience in a data-heavy domain.
• Experience with BI semantic layers (Looker) and data governance.
• Proven ability to design and deliver scalable data models and lead squads.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Lending data model across BigQuery and Looker.
• Deliver standardised, scalable data models (gold + semantic layers).
• Define and enforce best practices for analytics engineering (modelling, naming, documentation, testing).
• Lead design and code reviews across the analytics engineering workstream.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

BigQuery

Looker

GCP

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

GCP

LookML

BigQuery

Job description

Allica Bank is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer to own the Lending data product on GCP and Looker, bridging analytics, data engineering, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable data models that support reporting, decision‑making, and emergent AI‑driven use cases.

You will lead the analytics engineering squad, set standards for data modelling, validation and usage, and drive data quality across datasets to enable trusted insights and strategic analytics across the bank.