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What Success Looks Like
In your first 12 months, you will be expected to
- Improve platform reliability and incident response maturity (clear SLOs/SLAs, faster detection and resolution, lower recurring failure rates).
- Reduce time and effort required to onboard new data sources through standardised ingestion and orchestration patterns.
- Establish clear ownership and decision boundaries between Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and adjacent teams.
- Improve confidence in data quality through stronger contracts, validation, freshness controls, and observability.
- Deliver measurable progress on customer-facing data products (feeds/APIs) with stable, trusted delivery.
- Reduce key-person dependency by raising team capability, review quality, and shared operational knowledge.
- Create a clear, adopted technical roadmap for data engineering aligned to business priorities and product outcomes.
About YouWe’re looking for a high-agency, hands-on Data Engineering Lead who can combine technical depth with influence: someone who can improve systems, raise standards, and align multiple teams around a better way of working.
- Proven ownership of production data platforms end-to-end, including ingestion, orchestration, warehouse foundations, and operational reliability.
- Strong technical leadership without stepping away from the code; able to design, build, and coach in equal measure.
- A track record of converting platform work into business impact; faster delivery, lower cost, improved reliability, better customer outcomes.
- Experience building and enforcing engineering standards via templates, CI/CD, testing strategy, and operational guardrails.
- Strong judgment under ambiguity; can sequence work by leverage and risk, and make pragmatic trade-offs at startup pace.
- Deep Python/SQL and modern data platform experience, including orchestration and ingestion tooling in real production environments.
- Cloud and infrastructure fluency (ideally across AWS and GCP) and practical IaC experience.
- Operational excellence mindset, including incident response, runbooks, observability, and continuous reliability improvement.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and influence, especially with Product, Engineering, and analytics consumers.
Nice to have
- Experience with customer-consumable data products (APIs, feeds, data share) in B2B SaaS or data product environments.
- Experience operating in regulated or high-trust data contexts.
- Experience scaling data platform teams from early-stage to growth-stage maturity.
Financial & Insurance
- Competitive Salary (our salary bands are benchmarked at the top end of the market)
- Equity options
- Pension (your minimum contributions are 4% with 9fin matching up to 7%)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Paid sick leave with Income Protection for long periods of illness
- Group Life Assurance
- Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
Time off
- 25 holiday days per year
- Local public holidays (with the ability to exchange them for alternative days)
- Hybrid working model, to allow you the flexibility to decide how, where and when you do your best work
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available
Training & Culture
- Professional learning and development budget
- Quarterly team socials
- Summer and Winter company social events
A note from the hiring managerAt 9fin, data isn’t just a support function; it’s at the core of our product. You’ll be surrounded by smart, curious people who are passionate about us
ing data to make better decisions, improve our product, and create meaningful impact. If you’re looking for autonomy to own high-impact initiatives from conception through to delivery, and the opportunity to influence the entire organisation, then 9fin might be the perfect fit for you. I’d love to hear from you, apply now to learn more! – Rory, Analytics Engineering Manager
9fin is an equal opportunities employer
At 9fin we are dedicated to building and promoting a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can reach their full potential and truly belong. We recognize that building diverse teams enables a more creative and productive environment. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be who we’re looking for — either for this role, or perhaps another.
