Technical Lead, Funding Circle
Data Platform Engineer
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2 days a week in office
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
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Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build the place where small businesses go to get the funding they need to win
Role
Who you are
- We value deep expertise, but a growth mindset and good energy are what really make our team click. We’re a group that chooses to lift each other up and think smart every day
- 8+ years in Data & Analytics, with proven experience as a Senior/Tech Lead setting architectural direction for other engineers
- Deep, hands-on knowledge of Snowflake, including ideally Iceberg/open table formats and RBAC
- Advanced SQL, Python, and enterprise-grade dbt model development
- Experience designing end-to-end data pipelines. Combining batch, file-based, and streaming ingestion (Kafka/CDC) managed with Airflow orchestration
- A good understanding of data security and governance, including PII handling and access control
- Strong infrastructure-as-code skills and CI/CD skills
- Track record of writing clear design docs, explaining technical risks to non-technical stakeholders, and making decisions under uncertainty
- Able to 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
- Experience leading a migration or a large platform change
- 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
Desirable
- Data contracts (ODCS/ODPS), data product portals, lineage tools
- Experience in a regulated financial services company
- PySpark or other distributed processing experience
What the job involves
- The Data Platform team builds and runs the platform that all Funding Circle data teams use. This includes our Snowflake platform, streaming and batch ingestion, orchestration, data contracts and the Data Product Portal
- We are in the middle of a big change. We are moving to Snowflake and to a federated "Data as a Product" model. This role will lead the engineering of that platform
- Lead the technical direction of the Data Platform. Turn the target architecture into a clear, sequenced engineering plan, and keep the team aligned to it
- Own the technical quality of the platform: Snowflake infrastructure and RBAC, ingestion patterns, orchestration (Airflow), CI/CD, observability and cost controls
- Make and record technical decisions. Run the decision-document process. Make the final call when the team cannot agree, and escalate cross-domain decisions to the architecture review board
- Grow the team. Mentor engineers, spread knowledge so that no system depends on one person, and set a review culture that is fast and deep
- Make it easy for domain teams, Data Scientists, Analysts and AI Agents to build on the platform. Define standards and reusable patterns. Make sure that DP reviews do not block the domain teams, and work closely with the teams that use the platform
- Lead the platform side of the Athena → Snowflake migration: source landing, reconciliation and cutover evidence, and decommissioning of the legacy platform
- Own operational excellence with the Engineering Manager: on-call quality, alert quality, incident follow-ups, runbooks, and disaster recovery
- Own security and governance controls on the platform with Security and Data Governance
- Manage the technical relationship with platform vendors. This includes support cases, escalations and roadmap input
- Explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders and data leadership
- Set and evolve the team's standards for AI-assisted engineering, so that tools like Claude and Copilot are used safely and consistently
- Work closely with the Principal Engineer. The Principal owns the cross-domain architecture. You turn it into the platform engineering plan and make sure the team delivers it
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Funding Circle launched in 2010 and it was the perfect time in the market. After the financial crisis in 2008, financial institutions were hesitant to lend money. Loans to SMEs were at record lows.
This meant that Funding Circle's innovative platform - connecting investors and businesses directly - had immediate product-market fit and growth. Funding Circle remains incredibly focused on small businesses, and this set it apart from other lending platforms. The business has since expanded to the USA.
The company completed its IPO in September 2018 in a challenging economic environment in Europe and the USA. In 2020, however, trading in the group’s core UK market was helped by its participation in the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme – the company says it has been responsible for a quarter of CBILS loans by volume since it was accredited to join the scheme in April 2020. Funding Circle continues to be a leading SME financing platform, exemplified by its partnership with Bayview Asset Management, with whom it has surpassed £1 billion in funding for its Term Lending product.
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Meet the team
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Employee endorsements
Focus on employee wellbeing
"We've moved to a hybrid way of working at FC. We have lots of employee benefits, from lunch budgets (Just Eat), to retail discounts, gym/health..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2017
$101.9m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $374.3m
Company benefits
- Annual learning budget
- Private Health insurance covering pre-existing conditions
- 5% Matched Pension
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Access to Wellhub (discounted gym access)
- Dental Insurance
- Just Eat for Business allowance when in the office
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave
Company values
- Think smart
- Obsess over the customer
- Make it happen
- Be open
- Stand together
- Live the adventure
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lisa Jacobs
(CEO)Lisa is responsible for driving the company’s strategy and overseeing Funding Circle's operations in the UK and US.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Funding Circle
Victoria Bradford-Hall (VP, People)
- At Funding Circle, we are on a mission to back small businesses like no other company has ever done before. To succeed, we need a team that reflects the diverse world of the customers we support. We are building a place where everyone truly feels they belong. We know our success is rooted in a culture where every Circler - regardless of background, identity, or experience - has the confidence to bring their whole self to work. In our fast-moving environment, we don't just "accept" diversity; we actively seek it out to help us spot opportunities and find a better way. We measure our success not just by what we achieve individually, but by the impact we have on others. Even if your past experience does not align perfectly with every requirement, we would still love to hear from you.
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