About the Role
We’re looking for an Analytics Engineer / Data Quality Engineer to join our team and help shape our approach to Data Quality and work on the data foundations for high growth areas at Funding Circle. This is a unique opportunity to help build a top tier Data Quality and Data Governance function, with the full backing of the business. We’re investing heavily in the people, tools, and technology needed to make it happen - and giving you the chance to play a key role in shaping its future.
Responsibilities
- Building and owning high quality dbt models, ensuring they are performant, well documented and thoroughly tested
- Partner with product engineering and business teams to translate business logic into programmatically enforced Data Quality Rules
- Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to understand their needs and build models that drive Data Quality and the visibility and measurability of Data accuracy
- Champion best practices for Data Quality and data testing, across data engineering teams
- Review and work on Data Quality issues, both from a technical perspective and performing root cause analysis with stakeholders
- Architect custom AI solutions and smart automated systems that are safe, maintainable, and aligned with our long-term mission
- Act as a technical bridge and mentor, training “builders" across the company to move from basic AI usage to sophisticated system creation
Requirements
- Strong SQL skills, with experience writing efficient and well structured queries
- Hands on experience with DBT, building and maintaining modular, scalable data models that follow best practices
- Previous experience working on Data Quality engagements
- Strong understanding of dimensional modelling
- Strong understanding of Data Quality and how it is measured
- Desireable: Experience writing complex validation logic using tools like Great Expectations, dbt tests, Elementary, Soda, or Deequ
- Familiarity with AWS data services ( S3, Athena, Glue )
- Experience working with data lakes or modern data warehouses ( Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery )
- A pragmatic problem solver who can balance technical excellence with business needs
- Even if your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement, we'd still love to hear from you.
Skills
- SQL
- DBT
- Data Quality
- Dimensional Modelling
- Great Expectations
- dbt tests
- Elementary
- Soda
- Deequ
- AWS data services
- S3
- Athena
- Glue
- Data lakes
- Snowflake
- Redshift
- BigQuery
- AI
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 2 days in the office
Experience Level
- Analytics Engineer
- Data Quality Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
Benefits
- Benefit allowance you can tailor to your own life and family
- 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 schemes
- 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!
- We’re building a place where everyone truly feels they belong.
