Principal Data Platform Architect (Snowflake + AWS)

Fundingcircle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Private medical and dental

Annual learning allowance

Share schemes and financial coaching

Electric car and cycle-to-work schemes

Award-winning parental leave policies

Job summary

Funding Circle in London is seeking an experienced Principal Data Engineer to lead the Data Platform strategy on Snowflake and AWS, reporting to the VP of Data.

You will own multi-phased roadmap, migrate to Future State Platform, and mentor teams; design scalable data warehouse, lakehouse, and orchestration with dbt and Airflow.

Join a high-performing fintech culture with flexible hybrid work and strong emphasis on data governance, quality, and observability.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Data & Analytics leadership roles.
• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating cloud data platforms on Snowflake and AWS.
• Experience designing data products across source-aligned, aggregate and consumer-aligned patterns.
• Proven ability to architect and scale modern cloud data platforms using Snowflake, Iceberg, Redshift and S3.
• Hands-on expertise in developing robust data transformation pipelines and orchestrating complex workflows with dbt and Airflow.
• Strong track record of automating infrastructure and deployment pipelines using Terraform and GitHub Actions.
• Experience establishing or leading a community of practice, driving standards adoption across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the Data Platform strategy and execute the multi-phased roadmap for migrating to the Future State Data Platform on Snowflake and AWS.
• Lead the architecture, design and development of scalable cloud data warehouse, lakehouse, streaming and analytics solutions.
• Define ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns, naming and structural conventions, and the publication boundary between Product Engineering and Data Engineering.
• Identify, mitigate and resolve architectural bottlenecks, control weaknesses and technical debt across the data ecosystem.
• Own the Data as a Product Community of Practice and the standards that bind every Data Product: metadata and data contract specifications, output port and schema design, data product versioning, DQ requirements, SLA and SLO declarations, and semantic layer conventions.
• Champion data quality, lineage, observability and governance, ensuring checks, SLAs and alerting are expressed as code and monitored in production.
• As a key member of the Data Architecture Review Board, work on and carry formal decision rights over data architecture decisions, ensuring every proposal is engineering-viable.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Apache Airflow

Terraform

GitHub Actions

AI tooling

Data as a Product

Tools

Snowflake tooling

Apache Iceberg

Amazon Redshift

S3

dbt

Apache Airflow

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Funding Circle in London is seeking an experienced Principal Data Engineer to lead the Data Platform strategy on Snowflake and AWS, reporting to the VP of Data.

You will own multi-phased roadmap, migrate to Future State Platform, and mentor teams; design scalable data warehouse, lakehouse, and orchestration with dbt and Airflow.

Join a high-performing fintech culture with flexible hybrid work and strong emphasis on data governance, quality, and observability.