Senior Analytics Engineer

Job Description

Who are we We want to help small businesses win. Thats why were here. We connect small business owners to investors - to create jobs, help families and power economies - because we believe that people are made to do more. So far our investors have lent £13.7 billion through it to 122,000 SME owners. In just one year, we unlocked 100,000 jobs and contributed £7.2 billion to the UK economy. At Funding Circle we deliver an amazing customer experience through technology. We are focused on empowering small businesses to not only borrow, but pay and spend as well. This will make Funding Circle a multi-product platform, serving a direct and embeddedaudience. The team This role sits within "Data Engineering" part of our "Tech and Data" organisation. We are looking for a Data Engineer to join us as we are adopting a data products approach to serving the data needs of the business and scaling our data ecosystem to enable the next generation of data-driven decisions at Funding Circle. You will join the cross-functional data engineering team, a group of data and analytics engineers from diverse backgrounds who leverage the latest technologies to build robust and user-friendly data products. Our goal is to build centrally-managed data productsfocused on business outcomes and to enable our analytics, data science, and operational teams to create and manage their own data products. What will you be doing Were looking for someone with a passion for wrangling data pipelines, solving data puzzles, and collaborating with analysts and data scientists.

• Promote software development approach to the data.
• Work in short development cycles and with high deployment frequency to incrementally deliver data products, with a focus on transformation of data into dashboards, reports, and BI and ML pipelines.
• Collaborate with analytical teams across Funding Circle to develop key data products which are reused across the company.
• Contribute into technical design and ongoing development of templates, reference code examples, and code libraries for data products, ETLs and analytics.
• Collaborate with the data platform team to identify and drive scaling and efficiency improvements for data tooling.
• Be an advocate for the use of data engineering best practices.

Are you

• Knowledgeable about cloud computing and infrastructure. We are on AWS and work with Glue, Athena, Lake Formation, Redshift and more; but we have good experience transitioning new joiners from GCP and Azure.
• A strong programmer.
• A very fluent and fast SQL developer. We use dbt for data modelling and apply software development standards to SQL.
• A confident dashboard creator with a dashboards-as-a-code mentality. We use Tableau.
• Use software development best practices including CI/CD, observability, cost optimisation, security and more.
• Care about user experience for data consumers.
• Believe in the potential of data to drive better business outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with more than one of Airflow, dbt, Lake Formation, Tableau server.
• Experience with AWS.
• Understanding of Terraform.
• Experience with data security and access control.
• Experience with metadata and data lineage management.

Did you know Research shows that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single criteria. At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesnt align perfectly with the requirements.You might just be the perfect fit. Why join us Talk to our recruiters about our workplace, culture and benefits. We have designed our offering around; Health, Wealth, Lifestyle & Development! A few highlights are:

• Hybrid working environment (2 days a week in office), flexible working options with an amazing office and we will help support your home working set up.
• Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance.
• Learning and Wellbeing allowances AND other perks such as Gympass, Spill, Just Eat allowance, Electric Car Scheme and more!
• Access to Octopus Money Coach, Free Mortgage advisor partnership, Discounts at other retailers through perks at work.

Want to Build the Incredible Wed love to hear from you.