Senior Analytics Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company seeks a Senior Analytics Engineer to join their Cardiff office, offering an exciting opportunity to work on data pipelines and analytics in a hybrid model. You will play a crucial role in empowering analysts and managing data quality while engaging with innovative projects, all within a supportive and diverse culture.

Benefits

28 days holiday + bank holidays

Private medical insurance with Bupa

Employee Assistance Programme

Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World

Cyclescheme

50% discounted gym membership

2 days charity leave per year

Eye care vouchers with Specsavers

50% off mobile apps

Strong community-focused culture

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience with batch & streaming data pipelines.
• Familiarity with SQL for efficient data handling.

Responsibilities

• Manage data pipelines and quality controls across platforms.
• Collaborate with analysts to prepare insights from data models.
• Support innovative data-focused product initiatives.

Skills

Data pipelines

SQL

Data modeling

Analytics methods

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

PowerBI

Job description

Job Description

Job title: Senior Analytics Engineer

Location: Cardiff or London / Hybrid (1-2 days a month)

We are a lending and technology company with a clear vision: to be The Funding Platform for the Future of Work. Our embedded payment solution empowers the new world of work. This means our customers can draw funds as and when they need them, to pay their workers, while waiting for end clients to pay them on their own terms.

We know that diverse teams are strong teams. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing all our employees. We offer great flexibility, no pressure to come into the offices on a weekly basis.

We are a 150 strong FinTech with offices in Cardiff and London and now are on the lookout for a new Data Engineer to join our team. We are currently re-positioning the data team internally to be more innovation focused so there is a great opportunity to push the company forward in this role.

Role Summary

You would be working closely with our two data engineers across DBT, Snowflake and PowerBI. You would work with our analysts and wider analyst community to enable them to deliver insights to the business through a combination of Snowflake and PowerBI data models. You would support our data commitments to third parties by managing data pipelines and quality controls alongside our governance and risk teams. Python experience for managing data pipelines is essential and ideally you will have been using some, or all, of these toolkits, or equivalents, for a few years.

As we are a small team there is an ask to support across the data and product landscape which includes: dabbling with AI, securing external data feeds and investigating innovative data-focused product initiatives such as complex financial products for our customers.

Skills

We are open to all backgrounds for this role, if you don’t think you meet all the criteria, please do still reach out. We aren’t expecting you to be a finance expert – its about transferable skills, we need someone with:

• 5+ years’ experience who is keen on working in a fast-paced environment where you will be able to see a real impact from your work.
• A T-shaped analytics engineer with experience across areas such as batch & streaming data pipelines, the development of analytical data/semantic models, building dashboards & reports and advanced analytics methods. We are not expecting you to have experience across all of this, but are keen that you are able to step out of your lane and muck-in across parts of the stack.
• Familiarity with data modelling, data warehouse design and data lake concepts and practices. The more passionate you are about enabling analysts the better.
• An experienced SQL user - We need you to know how to build efficient joins, aggregations, and know your views from your tables. You’ll use Snowflake here but all SQL backgrounds are welcome.
• If you are already familiar with DBT that’s great too, but not essential – the more exposure you’ve had to it the better.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control and batch & streaming data pipelines is ideal.

What will you get in return?

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private medical insurance with Bupa
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Techscheme with Apple and Currys PC World
• Cyclescheme
• Working with latest technologies and leading SaaS providers
• Eye care vouchers with Specsavers
• 50% discounted gym membership
• 50% off mobile apps (Calm, Duolingo, Audible, Les Mills)
• 2 days charity leave per year
• You’ll work for a company that is passionate about personal development and a strong community focussed culture

Sound interesting?

If your answer is ‘yes’ then click apply to find out more!

If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the interview process, please let our Talent Acquisition Partner (Alex Morrell) know and we'd be happy to help!

We know that diverse teams are strong teams. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture and are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing all our employees

Please note: All successful applicants who are offered a role at Sonovate will be required to pass background screening checks before starting with us. These checks will include ID Checks, Right to Work, Employment References, Adverse Financial History, Criminal Record, Global Sanctions, Bankruptcy checks. Our Talent Acquisition team will be able to run you through these in detail at the early stage of your application.