Description
Starling is the UK's first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking. We're looking for a talented Analytics Engineering Team Lead to join our Data team in Cardiff, Wales.
As an Analytics Engineering Team Lead, you will manage and develop a team of analytics engineers, work closely with stakeholders to understand and prioritise key business needs, and own and improve a large analytics estate serving many different business functions.
Responsibilities:
- Manage and develop a team of analytics engineers
- Work closely with stakeholders to understand and prioritise key business needs
- Own and improve a large analytics estate serving many different business functions
- Lead and deliver multiple workstreams end-to-end
- Ensure quarterly priorities are delivered alongside standing work and ad hoc requests
- Maintain Fraud & AML-related regular reporting
- Support data science and ML model development and monitoring
Requirements:
- Extensive analytics engineering background with expert SQL and data modelling skills
- Hands-on experience with dbt (or similar framework) to build well-structured, tested, and maintainable data models
- Proficiency with Looker or a comparable BI tool
- Track record of managing, supporting, and developing analytics engineers
- Strong project management capabilities, including prioritising incoming work and delivering cross-functional data initiatives
- Excellent communication and documentation abilities
- Solid understanding of data governance and risk management
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience working with fraud, AML or financial crime data
- Experience in a regulated financial services environment
- Experience with cloud data warehouses and CI/CD
- Experience with Git and peer-review workflows
Benefits:
- 33 days holiday (including public holidays)
- An extra day's holiday for your birthday
- Annual leave is increased with length of service
- 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
- Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
- Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection
- Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth
- Generous family-friendly policies
- Incentives refer a friend scheme
- Perkbox membership