Principal Data Engineer
Description
Principal Data Engineer
We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to ensure we are making and adhering to the correct technical decisions for the future of Funding Circle. The role of Principal Data Engineer has a core responsibility to ensure that all technical decision making is made pragmatically and effectively, whilst being effectively communicated with delivery teams and wider stakeholders (such as Tech Leadership, Tech Strategy, Principal Architects). They evangelise best practices for their craft inside their respective teams, but also with the wider business.
Reporting to the VP of Data , the role holds responsibility for all Data Engineering and Data Platform needs by overseeing technical architecture, identifying the capabilities of our product, understanding what our technical platforms require, and ensuring the correct solutions are built based on our commercial, product and technical strategies.
These decisions will pragmatically balance any product requirements with global consistency, system complexity, engineer skill sets, opportunity costs and financial costs.
Please note, the minimum expectation for office attendance is two to three days per week in our central London office.
Who are we?
We’re Funding Circle. We back small businesses to succeed.
At Funding Circle, we believe the world needs small businesses. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to help them get the finance they need to grow.
With more than a decade of expertise under our belt, we’ve built a game-changer of a platform with cutting-edge data and technology that’s reshaping the landscape of SME lending. Say goodbye to lengthy applications and hello to lightning-fast decisions! In just minutes, SMEs across the UK can get a decision, giving them access to competitive funding in a flash.
We know that good business is about good people. So we pride ourselves on providing meaningful, human support as well as fast, hassle free processes to deliver an unbeatable customer experience.
The role
- Encouraging and mentoring team members in partnership with other disciplines to create value with data across the wider organisation
- Responsible for technical quality of the data lake and data infrastructure
- Ensuring systems follow the agreed principles and architecture defined at Funding Circle
- Lead initiatives to enhance data quality, data culture and governance across the organisation, ensuring compliance with FC guidelines and industry best practices
- Responsible for communicating technical decisions and strategy to the teams of engineers they cover and to the broader organisation
- Responsible for bringing feedback on the current system state and the impact of technical decision and strategy from engineering teams to the Tech Strategy and Tech Leadership teams
- Work closely with Engineering Managers to ensure all planned works takes into account the product and technical capability needs as well as the feature delivery
- Work closely with engineering teams to ensure they are supported in the right balance of feature delivery and technical capability needs - and know what good looks like for the FC platform and how to create value for our customers
- Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day
What we’re looking for
- Preferably 5+ years experience in a data engineering role, preferably in digital products
- Experience in building data strategies that drive data monetisation
- Extensive experience in building ETL pipelines, ingesting data from a diverse set of data sources (including event streams, various forms of batch processing)
- Ability to listen to the ideas of others and strategically build on them. Whilst there is no line management responsibility the role is part of the senior data leadership team and the ability to influence and support others in helping them to succeed is highly desirable
- Ability to clearly communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to collaborate effectively, working alongside other team members towards the team’s goals, and enabling others to succeed
- Demonstrable experience of working alongside cross-functional teams interacting with Product Managers, Infrastructure Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Analysts
- Extensive use of cloud technologies such as AWS
At Funding Circle we are committed to building diverse teams so please apply even if your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the requirements.
Want to learn more?
- We have a huge impact on the businesses that borrow through our platform, the communities they serve and the overall economy (last year £6.9bn of GDP generated). You can read our full Impact Report here: https://www.fundingcircle.com/uk/impact
- To see what our customers think, visit our Trustpilot page: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/fundingcircle.com
- And we’re still evolving! Our award-winning multi-product platform is solving more SME finance challenges than ever before. We think big, rally together and meet the needs of SME customers like no other.
Why join us?
At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and affirmative-action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.
We back our Circlers to build their own incredible career, making a difference to small businesses every day. Our Circler proposition is designed to support employees both in and out of work, and it is anchored around four pillars: Health, Weath, Development & Lifestyle.
A few highlights:
- Health: Private Medical Insurance through Aviva, Dental Insurance through Bupa, MediCash, access to free online therapy sessions and exclusive discounts with Hertility for reproductive health support.
- Wealth: Octopus Money Coach, free mortgage advisor partnership and discounts across numerous retailers through Perks at Work.
- Development: Dedicated annual learning allowance and full access to internal learning platform.
- Lifestyle: Wellhub (for fitness discounts), Electric Car Scheme and more!
And finally, we have award winning parental leave policies supporting parents through enhanced maternity, partner and adoption leave, as well as additional leave for parental bereavement and for fertility treatments.
Ready to make a difference? We’d love to hear from you.