Senior Analytics Engineer

Zopa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

London office

Job summary

Zopa is seeking a hands-on Senior/Lead Analytics Engineer to raise the modelling maturity across domains. You will own and deliver complex modelling challenges, shape best practices for dbt and governance, and mentor teams while partnering with product and domain owners to ensure scalable data products.

You will drive the data mesh alignment, optimise data marts for performance, and contribute to a culture of continuous learning in a hybrid London setting.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior or Lead Analytics Engineer.
• Strong expertise in SQL and building production-grade dbt models.
• Experience working in modern cloud data environments.

Responsibilities

• Evolve the technical direction for Analytics Engineering and partners with Head of AE.
• Develop scalable modelling patterns aligned to data mesh and domain ownership.
• Lead by example in applying data governance, testing, CI/CD, and cost optimisation.
• Design and build robust, production-grade dbt models for high-impact domains.
• Mentor Analytics Engineers and Analysts to raise standards and skills.

Skills

SQL

dbt models

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

CI/CD

Tools

Git

Job description

Our Story

Hello there. We’re Zopa.

We started our journey back in 2005, building the first ever peer-to-peer lending company. Fast forward to 2020 and we launched Zopa Bank. A bank that listens to what our customers don’t like about finance and does the opposite. We’re redefining what it feels like to work in finance. Our vision for a new era of banking puts people front and centre - we’ve built a business that empowers everyone to aim high, every day, to move finance forward. Find out more about our fantastic offerings at Zopa.com!

We’re incredibly proud of our achievements and none of it would be possible without the amazing team here. It’s not just industry awards we’re winning, we’ve also been named in the top three UK’s Most Loved Workplaces.

If you embrace unconventional challenges, are unafraid to think differently and are driven to make an outsized impact, you’ll thrive here at Zopa, so join us, and make it count. Want to see us in action? Follow us on Instagram @zopalife

The Team

The Analytics Engineering team is a key part of the broader Data, Analytics & AI organisation within Technology. Our mission is to transform data into high-quality, trusted, and scalable data products that empower analytics, product, finance, risk, and commercial teams to makesmarter decisionsfor our customers.

We work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, MLEngineersand stakeholders across the business. As Zopa continues to align Analytics Engineering to business domains, we are embedding domain ownership, ensuring our data models and semantic layers reflect real-world business boundaries and needs.

The Role

This is ahands-on technical leadership rolefocused on raising standards, shaping technical direction, and increasing modelling maturity across domains - without formal line management responsibility.

You’ll own and deliver the most complex modelling challenges, help to define and evolve best practices fordbt, modelling,governanceand cost optimisation. You’ll act as a technical authority within analytics engineering, whilst mentoring and enabling others to raise their technical bar. You’ll also shape how domain data products are designed, owned, and consumed across Zopa.

• Evolve the technical direction for Analytics Engineering in partnership with the Head of AE
• Develop scalable modelling patterns aligned to our data mesh and domain-based ownership approach
• Raise engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, documentation, versioncontroland code review
• Lead by example in applying data governance and risk standards across all data products
• Design and build robust, production-grade, cost-efficientdbtmodels for high-impact domains
• Own modelling strategy for key business areas, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and scalability
• Optimise data marts for performance,reliabilityand long-term growth
• Break down complex domain problems into scalable data products
• Evaluate trade-offs between cost, performance,maintainabilityand delivery speed
• Take end-to-end ownership of high-impact modelling initiatives
• Partner with product teams and domain owners to translate business needs into clean, well-documented data models
• Ensure cross-domain consistency and reusability of shared entities
• Advocate for domain ownership and clear data contracts
• Simplify overly complex modelling areas and reduce unnecessary warehouse costs
• Mentor Analytics Engineers and Analysts, helping them deepen their modelling and engineeringexpertise
• Provide high-quality,empatheticand actionable code reviews
• Share knowledge at scale through documentation, technicalsessionsor playbooks
• Thrives in a developing environment where not everything is defined
• Communicates clearly with engineers, productteamsand business stakeholders
• Can influence without authority
• Has strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Iscomfortable making decisions in ambiguity
• Enjoys mentoring and raising standards
• Is proactive aboutidentifyingand solving structural problems
• Embraces continuous learning and technological advancement
• Significant experienceas a Senior or Lead Analytics Engineer
• Demonstrable experience setting technical standards or shaping modelling practices
• Strongexpertisein SQL and building production-grade, cost-efficientdbtmodels
• Experience working in modern cloud data environments
• Strong understanding of data governance and risk considerations
• Experience working cross-functionally in product-led environments
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and version-controlled deployments

At Zopa we value flexible ways of working.

We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance. This hybrid role requires you to come to our London office 2-3 days a week.

You’ll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year*! But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one.

*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice

Diversity Statement

Zopa is proud to offer a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to better products for our customers and a unique company culture for our people. We are made up of nearly 50 nationalities, have a DE&I forum made up of Zopians wanting to make a difference and we are proud of our culture where everyone can bring their full self to work. Our approach to DE&I is reflected in our hiring process so please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Our approach to AI in interviews

At Zopa, AI isn't something we're testing out - it's part of how we work every day. As a proud partner of Jobs 2030, we’re committed to building AI fluency across our workforce, and we expect Zopa to use AI as part of how they do their jobs.

Because of that, we want to be transparent about how we think about AI use during our hiring process.

Behavioural and competency-based interviews: pleasedon'tuse AI.These conversations are designed to understandyou- your experiences, your judgment, and howyou'veapproached real situations. An AI-generated answercan'ttell us that. What it can do is get in the way of us finding out whetherwe'rethe right fit for each other.

Technical interviews: it depends on the role.Some technical stages actively welcome AI use,othersdon't. Your Talent Partner will let you knowwhat'sexpected at each stage.Where AI is part of the assessment,we'llbe interested not just in the outcome, but in how you used it - the tools you chose, your reasoning, and the decisions you made along the way.