Principal Data Engineer — Cloud Data Platform Leader

Funding Circle Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Barista coffee

Just Eat lunches

Flexible work policy

Job summary

Funding Circle is hiring a Principal Data Engineer to lead the Data Platform strategy and architecture in a hybrid London setting. You will own the multi-phased roadmap, guide migrations to a Future State Platform on Snowflake and AWS, and drive the design of scalable data warehouses and analytics solutions.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Governance teams to ensure data quality, observability, and governance are embedded as code in production pipelines.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience designing data platforms on Snowflake and AWS.
• Proven ability to architect and scale modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience with data governance, lineage, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data Platform strategy and roadmap for migration to Future State Platform.
• Lead architecture, design and development of scalable data warehouses and lakehouses.
• Define ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns across teams.
• Mentor builders across the company to create robust AI-enabled solutions.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Airflow

Terraform

Data governance

Data architecture

Job description

Funding Circle is hiring a Principal Data Engineer to lead the Data Platform strategy and architecture in a hybrid London setting. You will own the multi-phased roadmap, guide migrations to a Future State Platform on Snowflake and AWS, and drive the design of scalable data warehouses and analytics solutions.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Governance teams to ensure data quality, observability, and governance are embedded as code in production pipelines.