Customer Platform Data & Analytics Lead, Vitesse
2-3 days a week in office
Financial infrastructure for insurance
Job no longer available
Financial infrastructure for insurance
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower the insurance ecosystem with a financial infrastructure that moves claims funds securely and in real-time.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience in data and/or analytics engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Proven track record in leading and managing technical teams
- Designing and architecting data and analytic solutions
- Developing data processing pipelines in python for Databricks including many of the following technologies: Spark, Delta, Delta Live Tables, PyTest, Great Expectations (or similar)
- Building and orchestrating data and analytical processing for streaming data with technologies such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis or Azure Stream Analytics
- Building data solutions for embedded analytics and/or SaaS product platforms
- Knowledge of data governance, privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR), and security best practices
- Delivering data engineering and designing for cloud native data platforms (AWS/ Azure/ Databricks)
- Building DevOps pipelines for data solutions using Terraform, GitHub, DevOps
- Leading highly agile multidisciplinary scrum teams in Scrum/Kanban
- Mentoring data engineers, carrying out PR review
- Leadership, communication and interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- As the Lead for Customer Platform Data and Analytics reporting to the Head of Data, you will lead and manage a talented team of engineers responsible for Vitesse SaaS platform embedded data and analytics solutions
- You will bring a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and a passion for data solutions
- In this role you will play a key role in shaping the platforms data architecture and data and analytics engineering development practices within the organization
- You will collaborate closely with wider Vitesse platform squad leads to deliver data powered end to end customer experiences and the internally focused Business Data and Analytics Lead to drive data and AI innovation, adoption and maturity across Vitesse
- You will lead a multidisciplinary squad of data and analytic engineers within the organisations wider data team
- The role is based remotely with regular contact time in our London based offices
- The ideal match for this role will be a lead data engineer with experience of leading projects including analytical data processing
- They will enjoy leading and mentoring as much as getting their hands dirty prototyping, troubleshooting and coding the most complex data engineering tasks
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of 5 data and analytics engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment
- Provide guidance, coaching and development opportunities to team members
- Conduct performance management and provide regular feedback
- Plan capacity and optimise resource allocation
- Own squad delivery and team alignment to organisational strategy
- Technical leadership and PR reviews
- Design and architect data infrastructure and data/AI solutions for embedded analytics
- Establish and maintain standards, patterns and best practices
- Collaborate with data leads to identify and deliver reusable data assets
- Oversee the design, development and maintenance of data processing pipelines
- Prototype, troubleshoot and engineer the most complex data engineering tasks
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and availability
- Manage and optimise data infrastructure
- Stay abreast of industry best practices, innovation and emerging technology for data and analytic engineering
- Oversee the development and maintenance of analytical processing, headless analytics APIs, and data visualisations
- Ensure that analytical processing provides meaningful timely insights
- Work closely with product owners and Vitesse platform technical leads to understand their needs, provide data-driven solutions and communicate data value and opportunity
- Build strong working relationships with Product Owners, Technical Leads and wider stakeholders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Vitesse is a payment business providing global payment services to a range of businesses. Operating on one of the largest domestic banking and payment networks in the world, Vitesse gives its customers direct access to over 180 countries' domestic payment networks and processes over $10B in transactions.
It's focused on serving customers in the insurance market by providing improved liquidity management and faster claims settlement. Insurance is the largest market in terms of revenue and the fastest growing, and as a result of Vitesse's success in the Lloyds of London market, the company has established itself as an industry leader.
Having closed successful funding rounds, the company aims to double its revenue in the coming years whilst also focusing on growing its team across London and Rotterdam and establishing a presence within the US market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$93m
SERIES C
Feb 2022
$26m
SERIES B
Total funding: $127.7m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
- +1 Extra day annual leave per year
- Hybrid working
- Pension scheme
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Mental health Unlimited therapy
- 1 month sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Gym Subsidy
- Financial coaching
- 2 Days paid volunteering leave
- Learning & development
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Phillip McGriskin
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Founding Vitesse in 2016, Phillip spent nearly 5 years at Worldpay as a Chief Product Officer and Managing Director of Worldpay Features. Before that, they Founded Envoy Services where they served as the CEO for over 5 years.
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