Senior Analytics Engineer

About the Role

The Analytics Engineering team is a key part of the broader Data, Analytics & AI organisation within Technology. Our mission is to transform data into high-quality, trusted, and scalable data products that empower analytics, product, finance, risk, and commercial teams to make smarter decisions for our customers. We work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, ML Engineers and stakeholders across the business. As [Employer hidden] continues to align Analytics Engineering to business domains, we are embedding domain ownership, ensuring our data models and semantic layers reflect real-world business boundaries and needs. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on raising standards, shaping technical direction, and increasing modelling maturity across domains — without formal line management responsibility.

What the job involves

• You'll own and deliver the most complex modelling challenges, help to define and evolve best practices for dbt, modelling, governance and cost optimisation.
• You'll act as a technical authority within analytics engineering, whilst mentoring and enabling others to raise their technical bar.
• You'll also shape how domain data products are designed, owned, and consumed across [Employer hidden].
• Evolve the technical direction for Analytics Engineering in partnership with the Head of AE.
• Develop scalable modelling patterns aligned to our data mesh and domain-based ownership approach.
• Raise engineering standards across testing, CI/CD, documentation, version control and code review.
• Lead by example in applying data governance and risk standards across all data products.
• Design and build robust, production-grade, cost-efficient dbt models for high-impact domains.
• Own modelling strategy for key business areas, ensuring consistency, maintainability, and scalability.
• Optimise data marts for performance, reliability and long-term growth.
• Break down complex domain problems into scalable data products.
• Evaluate trade-offs between cost, performance, maintainability and delivery speed.
• Take end-to-end ownership of high-impact modelling initiatives.
• Partner with product teams and domain owners to translate business needs into clean, well-documented data models.
• Ensure cross-domain consistency and reusability of shared entities.
• Advocate for domain ownership and clear data contracts.
• Simplify overly complex modelling areas and reduce unnecessary warehouse costs.
• Mentor Analytics Engineers and Analysts, helping them deepen their modelling and engineering expertise.
• Provide high-quality, empathetic and actionable code reviews.
• Share knowledge at scale through documentation, technical sessions or playbooks.

Who you are

• Thrives in a developing environment where not everything is defined.
• Communicates clearly with engineers, product teams and business stakeholders.
• Can influence without authority.
• Has strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
• Is comfortable making decisions in ambiguity.
• Enjoys mentoring and raising standards.
• Is proactive about identifying and solving structural problems.
• Embraces continuous learning and technological advancement.
• Significant experience as a Senior or Lead Analytics Engineer.
• Demonstrable experience setting technical standards or shaping modelling practices.
• Strong expertise in SQL and building production-grade, cost-efficient dbt models.
• Experience working in modern cloud data environments.
• Strong understanding of data governance and risk considerations.
• Experience working cross-functionally in product-led environments.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, and version-controlled deployments.

Company Benefits

2-3 days a week in the office. We value face-to-face collaboration and a good work-life balance.

You'll also have the option of working from abroad for up to 120 days a year!* But no matter where you are, we’ll make sure you’ve got everything you need to thrive, both in your work and home life, from day one (*Subject to having the right to work in the country of choice)

On top of regular bank holidays, you’ll get 25 days holiday as standard, rising up to 30 days as your tenure grows. For any teams that operate on a bank holiday, you may be offered an alternative day off.

As a Zopian, you can opt into our private medical insurance through Vitality Health. This’ll give you access to private medical care, discounted gym memberships, and other rewards such as savings at various retailers for maintaining an active lifestyle. You also get free Headspace access to help with the all-important mindfulness we need.

16-weeks full pay for all new parents. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity pay to employees wishing to start a family. New parents, including those adopting, are eligible to take up to 16-weeks leave at full pay.

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