About the Role
We are seeking an analytics engineer to enhance the analytical foundation of the UK Motor team, a rapidly expanding business segment. This role involves collaborating with analysts, product teams, backend engineers, and business stakeholders to optimize data structuring, transformation, and consumption company-wide. The core focus is on building a robust analytical foundation that enables teams to transition from questions to insights swiftly, while upholding high standards for data quality, scalability, and maintainability. You will contribute to the modeling layer, improve business data interaction, and ensure the data warehouse remains a reliable, strategic asset.
Responsibilities
- Build and improve data models supporting lending decisions, pricing, portfolio analysis, and investor reporting.
- Champion standards and contribute to enhancing our analytics engineering culture.
- Support and collaborate with analysts of varying technical proficiencies, translating requirements into robust pipelines.
- Triage and resolve issues impacting the analytics pipeline or data trust, and propose improvements for efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the transformation pipeline.
Requirements
- Solid analytics engineering fundamentals with pragmatic application in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to explain tradeoffs to stakeholders with diverse technical backgrounds.
- Strong data modeling skills and understanding of structuring analytical datasets for reliability and usability.
- Strong experience with ELT pipelines and transformation at scale, ideally using dbt.
- Experience with Snowflake or another modern cloud data warehouse.
- Proactiveness in identifying and suggesting solutions for data workflow improvements.
- Collaborative working style and clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort using AI tools effectively to enhance speed, quality, and daily analytical and engineering workflows.
Skills
- SQL
- Snowflake
- dbt
- Fivetran
- Claude
- Data Modelling
- ELT pipelines
- AI tools
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Private health cover
- Retirement savings plans
- Employee referral programme
- Complimentary lunches on in-office days
- Cycle-to-work schemes
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes
About the Company
- Lendable is building the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money, aiming to be one of the world's leading fintech companies.
- We are one of the UK's fastest-growing tech companies, profitable since 2017, and backed by prominent investors.
- We have rebuilt core consumer finance products like loans, credit cards, and car finance, enabling customers to access funds in minutes.
- Our focus is on expanding into the UK and US markets, challenging established banks with dated systems and processes.
- We offer opportunities for ownership, impact, and working in small teams with exceptional, resourceful individuals.
- We build cutting-edge technology in-house, leveraging new data sources, machine learning, and AI.
