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About the Role

Reporting to our CTO, the VP Data leads an enterprise-wide mandate shaping how data powers our organisation. Directing a team of specialists across Data Engineering, Data Platform, and Data Product Management, you’ll define and deliver the next phase of our data modernisation, ensuring the data foundations are in place to support our AI-native ambitions and leading our data transformation project.

Responsibilities

• Driving business value through leading our data transformation and implementing snowflake to power business-wide scaling
• Defining, building and implementing critical data products and delivering sustainable change to how we manage and process data
• Implement Funding Circle’s group-wide Data Strategy ensuring alignment with the broader Group Strategy and Technology Strategy
• Establish reliable data standards and working methodologies that guarantee long-term data integrity
• Refine our overall data roadmap, converting technology investments into measurable business efficiencies
• Build and maintain strong relationships at Senior and Executive levels across Funding Circle to understand and shape their planning to take full advantage of our data

Requirements

• Able to create a compelling vision for all matters data and to engage across organisational domains to secure support and commitment to that vision – driving innovation and technology and culture change
• Demonstrated success directing multi-disciplinary data functions (engineering, platform, and product) in scaled businesses. You possess the confidence and operational maturity to lead from day one.
• Expertise in modern cloud data stacks, platform architecture, and modernising legacy infrastructures (specifically AWS and Snowflake environments)
• A strong background in developing and executing enterprise data strategies, leading large-scale modernisation initiatives, and establishing robust governance frameworks
• Exceptional capability to articulate technical concepts into clear, commercial language that aligns diverse groups of technical and business stakeholders
• Prior experience in credit, lending, or regulated financial environments where data directly impacts risk, underwriting, and operations is advantageous

Skills

• Data Engineering
• Data Platform
• Data Product Management
• AI
• Data Governance
• Snowflake
• AWS

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid
• 2 days in the office

Experience Level

• VP Data
• Established Data Executive

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive Salary

Benefits

• Benefit allowance tailored to individual needs
• Private medical and dental
• Health assessments
• Access to a digital GP
• Life assurance
• Share schemes
• Financial coaching
• Dedicated annual learning allowance
• Electric car scheme
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Award-winning parental leave policies
• Fertility treatments support
• New additions to the family support
• Barista coffee
• Subsidised Just Eat lunches

About the Company

• We’re on a mission to back the UK’s small businesses like no one else.
• Small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and we’re here to help them win.
• We’ve built a platform that uses clever data to get them the funding they need in minutes, not weeks.
• At Funding Circle, we have the restless energy of a fintech start-up with the stability of a public company.
• It’s a unique mix that gives Circlers the autonomy to take ownership and the scale to make an impact that truly counts.
• We’re a high-performing team that chooses to lift each other up.
• We challenge, we champion, and we have each other’s backs - because we know that when we stand together, we move faster and build better.
• The impact is real: Last year alone, the businesses on our platform generated £7.2bn for the UK economy.
• Come and join a mission that matters!

Equal Opportunity

• We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.