Head of Data Engineering, Funding Circle
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
Job no longer available
Business finance that backs you and your business to succeed
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
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
- You have proven experience in senior leadership roles and have managed managers before
- You communicate clearly with proven ability to adapt your communication style to different situations and stakeholders
- You love solving problems through data and to create new opportunities for internal and external customers
- You have successfully delivered complex data engineering & platform projects (and owned the budget for it ideally)
- You have experience with cloud based data platforms and know your way around best practices and current tooling when it comes to building data products
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Head of Data Engineering in our Data team
- Data is core to our mission at Funding Circle to build a better financial world as well as being our key asset that everyone across the organisation has a part to play in making sure that we look after it, allowing us to better support our customers
- Our central data team lives in our Tech org and reports to the VP of Data
- Provide strategic leadership for the data engineering and data platform functions, aligned with with business objectives and the overall data and technology strategy
- Build, lead, and mentor high-performing data engineering and data platform teams encouraging continuous learning and professional development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including other data functions and product engineering teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that drive data solutions for our customers
- Drive value from our data platform to help define and implement a scalable and robust data architecture that supports the organisation's current and future needs
- Evangelise “data as a product” and a data driven culture at Funding Circle
- Proactively problem solving, identifying and confidently mitigating any risks, issues or control weaknesses that arise in your day-to-day
- You act as a coach and mentor to the people inside and outside of your team, continuously training your leadership muscle to be the best leader you can be
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Alice, Collections Executive
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Company
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
$104.4m
SERIES F
Apr 2015
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $376.8m
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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