Head of Data Platform, Homeprotect
+ Annual discretionary bonus scheme
Office located in New Malden, London
Insurance for unique & at-risk properties
Be an early applicant
Insurance for unique & at-risk properties
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Annual discretionary bonus scheme
Office located in New Malden, London
21-100 employees
Company mission
Homeprotect was founded to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working in data engineering, data warehousing, or a similar field
- Proven experience delivering a significant data warehouse migration, ideally to Google BigQuery
- Deep hands-on expertise with BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, such as Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataplex, and IAM
- Proven track record of leading and managing technical teams, with excellent people development skills
- Strong project management skills, with experience running complex data initiatives
- Strong knowledge of modern data engineering, including SQL, Python, Airflow, Dataform/DBT, Terraform, or similar tools
- Understanding of data architecture patterns (e.g., lakehouse, event-driven pipelines, star/snowflake schemas)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in agile environments and cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Experience in insurance or regulated industries
- Familiarity with data privacy, GDPR, and data security practices
- Exposure to business intelligence tools (e.g., Looker, Power BI) and ML/AI
What the job involves
- As our Head of Data Platform, you will be instrumental in the successful migration of our existing Azure data warehouse to Google BigQuery, laying the foundation for a modern, scalable, and reliable data platform
- You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to ensure that our data architecture supports business intelligence, analytics, and data science needs
- This is a hands-on leadership role, combining deep technical experience, strong project delivery skills, and people leadership
- You will directly manage a team of data engineers and collaborate with pricing, analytics, IT, and business stakeholders
- Your team will also be responsible for establishing and enforcing DevOps and FinOps best practices
- Lead the end-to-end migration of the existing data warehouse to Google BigQuery, guiding the internal team and collaborating effectively with our implementation partner
- Own and evolve the data platform strategy, architecture, and roadmap
- Ensure robust data governance, quality, and security throughout the migration and beyond
- Collaborate with key business units to drive adoption and effective usage of the new platform
- Manage and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and collaboration
- Define and enforce best practices in data modelling, ETL/ELT processes, and pipeline monitoring
- Work closely with stakeholders across analytics, pricing, operations, finance, and product to understand their data needs and ensure the platform meets them
- Manage project timelines, risks, dependencies, and budget where appropriate
- Champion DevOps/DataOps practices, CI/CD for data pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code where applicable
- Stay abreast of new developments in data architecture and cloud technologies and bring innovation into the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Homeprotect is run by insurtech group Avantia, which has been around since 2002 and seemingly stayed abreast of the rapid digitisation of the insurance industry. The company leverages big data and machine learning, as well as underwriting from AXA Insurance, to provide home insurance quotes in seconds.
While there is no shortage of insurance marketplaces like this, Homeprotect’s value differentiator is its focus on sourcing affordable quotes for customers with non-standard needs such as at-risk, listed, vacant properties, or properties containing rare valuables.
Having secured major investment from ECI Partners over a series of funding rounds, Avantia has been investing heavily in Homeprotect’s tech and predictive capabilities, which has led to consistent annual revenue increases as the company strives to hold its own in a competitive market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance
- Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us
- Discounted home insurance for you, your friends and your family
- An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals
- Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need
- Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choice
- The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!
- Life insurance
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Pension contribution
- Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office
- Local and national retail discounts
- 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually
- Private medical cover
Company HQ
New Malden, UK
Leadership
Mark Eastham
(CEO)Joined as CEO in 2015 after an 11 year spell at Dixon's Carphone, where they rose to become UK General Manager.
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