Principal Data Architect: Snowflake & AWS Platform Leader

Funding Circle UK; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 110.000 - 165.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Private medical and dental

Flexible work options

Annual learning allowance

Barista coffee in office

Lunch subsidies

Descripción de la vacante

Funding Circle is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to own the Data Platform architecture and lead migration to the Future State Data Platform on Snowflake and AWS. You will drive the multi-phased roadmap and advise on migration architecture, ensuring data quality, governance and scalable analytics capabilities.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Governance teams, mentor builders, and shape a data product-driven data estate used across the organisation.

Formación

• 10+ years of experience in Data & Analytics in senior roles.

Responsabilidades

• Own Data Platform strategy and multi-phased roadmap for migration to Future State Data Platform.
• Lead architecture, design and development of scalable cloud data warehouse, lakehouse, streaming and analytics solutions.
• Define ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns and data product boundaries.
• Identify and fix architectural bottlenecks, debt and control weaknesses across the data ecosystem.
• Own Data as a Product Community of Practice including metadata, contracts, schemas, and SLAs.
• Champion data quality, lineage, observability and governance with code-driven checks and alerts.
• As a Data Architecture Review Board member,ensure engineering-viable decisions aligned with platform direction.

Conocimientos

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Apache Airflow

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Data governance

AI tooling

Leadership

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS

Herramientas

Snowflake

AWS

Apache Iceberg

Amazon Redshift

S3

dbt

Apache Airflow

Terraform

Descripción del empleo

Funding Circle is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to own the Data Platform architecture and lead migration to the Future State Data Platform on Snowflake and AWS. You will drive the multi-phased roadmap and advise on migration architecture, ensuring data quality, governance and scalable analytics capabilities.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Governance teams, mentor builders, and shape a data product-driven data estate used across the organisation.