Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

🌏 London

💰 From £95,000 p.a.  

💷 Discretionary Company Bonus Scheme

⏰ Monday – Friday (37.5h pw) hybrid working 

💖 Our perks

• 🌏25 days holidays (rising to 28 days) plus bank holidays, to take time to recharge and do something you love.
• ⭐Mental health care – 6 free counselling sessions via our EAP (Employee Assistance Programme).
• 🤧Paid sick leave – enhanced sick pay of up to 20 full days in a rolling 12-month period.
• 👨‍Enhanced family leave – we provide enhanced family leave for primary and secondary caregivers.
• 🤒Healthcare plan – free healthcare via Vitality for you and your family. You’ll receive money back on health appointments e.g. dental, optical and more.
• 👍Pension – Oodle will contribute 5% of your salary into your pension pot to help you save for the future.
• 🥝Free breakfast, drinks and fruit in the office – you can help yourself to cereals, toast, fizzy drinks and lots of fruit.
• 🤟Employee discounts – discounts you can access anywhere, anytime for all major shops.
• 👌1 day volunteer day per year – an opportunity to give back to the community each year.

🚗 Oodle – who are we? 🚗

Our mission is to be the UK’s simplest way to find and finance a great value used car. We want to put car buyers back in control and make the car buying experience as simple, straightforward, and joyful as possible as car buyers deserve oodles of car buying confidence!

We are a team of 450 people located in Manchester, Oxford and London. Over the past 8 years, we’ve supported 10,000’s of customers on their car buying journey and know 2024 is shaping up to be another exciting year!

🙌 The Role

Lead Data Engineer at Oodle Car Finance.

We are looking for an eager and experienced Lead Data Engineer with extensive data architecture and warehouse skills to lead and inspire our Data Engineering team. As a finance lender, data is central to our operations and growth. The Data Engineering team is crucial to the success of our mission in ensuring data is modelled, ingested, transformed and made available across the organisation.

You’ll need to be confident towards leading and developing your engineering team and be effective at communicating proposals to technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organisation. You will have the opportunity to own and develop our Data Vault Snowflake based Warehouse and Customer Data Platforms.

🟢The Team

The Data Engineering team is responsible for all aspects of data management at Oodle, developing and refining cloud native warehouse, interfaces from a variety of internal and external sources.

The data engineering team is a central team that works closely with your peer data teams in analytics and reporting, data science and the wider business to understand and service their data needs, ensuring a single source of truth is maintained. The team operates with a collaborative, autonomous and flat structure.

What you’ll be doing:

• • Leading our team of Data Engineers in creating the best solutions and developing their skills through direct line management and coaching.
  • Owning Oodle’s data engineering strategy to solve our current and future challenges and opportunities through coherent policies and plans.
  • Use your modelling experience to act as a data architect to define solutions within our Data Vault implementation.
  • Work alongside data science, credit risk and analytics teams to identify their data needs and advise reliable and efficient solutions to service these needs.
  • Own our Rudderstack based Customer Data Platform which drives behavioural data collection and activation for Customer 360 data views for Marketing, Communications and Product
  • Ensuring our code is delivered using CI/CD with test automation and we have a robust observability implementation.
  • Ensure data platform costs are managed within budget.
  • Manage relationships with suppliers such as Snowflake, FiveTran, dbt and many others.

What you’ll need:

• Demonstrable experience in leading a data engineering team including coaching and mentoring Data Engineers
• Hands-on experience working with cloud-based data warehousing technologies such as Snowflake, Redshift or Databricks, along with excellent SQL skills.
• Substantial experience in all data management and Data Ops processes and tools (ingestion, pipelines, aggregation, CI/CD)
• Ability to prioritise complex workloads in a rapidly evolving environment and manage project work alongside more ad-hoc demands.
• Comprehensive and current knowledge of data engineering models and ecosystems.
• Experience in architecting and modelling data.
• Bonus if you have experience with Data Vault 2.0 architecture.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail 
• High levels of energy, enthusiasm, and passion to acquire new skills and succeed in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in using the following technologies or similar:
• dbt
• Snowflake
• Airflow
• FiveTran
• Infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform

Desirable Experience:

• FinTech/Finance experience

👩‍💻 Hiring Process

• ☎️ Preliminary Interview (30 mins)
• 📲 Video Interview (1 hour) Competency and Technical interview with the hiring manger and a member of the team 
• 🛠 Team Interview (30 mins)
• 🔦 Final Interview (30 mins) with the Head of Engineering

💚 Our Values

Our values are our personal brand and lay the foundation of what we care about the most. They provide us with guidance, so we can work towards the same goals. They are our DNA and are kept at the forefront of our Oodler’s mind when making business decisions.

• Embrace being human – empathy and diversity make us stronger
• Strive for awesome – it’s awesome when we do better every day
• Everyone’s a builder – we’re in this together and we win as a team
• Bravely honest – we’re honest with ourselves and everyone else
• Think customer – they’re at the heart of everything we do

To find out more about our culture and what happens at Oodle check out our LinkedIn and Instagram. 

Oodle is proud to be an inclusive workplace and we recognise diversity of experience, thoughts and backgrounds leads to better customer outcomes and an environment where our colleagues can thrive. We have several DEI networks which are made up of our ‘Oodlers’ who strive to make positive impacts to our cultures.

We’d love if you could submit your application online, but if you need an alternative method or need reasonable adjustments to take part in the interview process please email [email protected]