Lead Engineer Data Platform
Tide is a UK-founded fintech business financial platform providing banking and financial-management services to small businesses and sole traders.
About Tide
Tide Platform Limited operates Tide, offering business accounts, payments, accounting and tax tools, savings, payroll, and business finance. Tide is FCA-authorised for electronic-money and payment services and is not itself a bank; its business bank accounts are provided through partner banks including ClearBank.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead small-to-medium data platform initiatives from design through production. You will build self-service capabilities for data onboarding, ingestion, transformation, governance, observability, and cost control. You will define delivery phases and migration paths, create documentation and golden paths, use AI-assisted development, and review designs and code.
Requirements
- Experience independently designing, shipping, and operating a platform or data infrastructure initiative.
- Data engineering knowledge, including batch and streaming ingestion, CDC, event-driven patterns, data modelling, and data correctness.
- Production engineering experience with Python and SQL.
- Experience building and operating APIs, pipelines, or shared libraries.
- Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform or equivalent.
- CI/CD and IAM experience across environments.
- Data governance knowledge, including PII masking, access control, residency, retention, and lineage.
- Data-pipeline observability experience, including freshness and quality checks, SLOs, alert thresholds, and incident response.
- Ability to evaluate technology choices, cost, and capacity.
- Hands-on AI-assisted development experience.
- Written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver self-service paths for onboarding data sources, datasets, and pipelines.
- Improve ingestion and transformation capabilities for reliable, fresh data.
- Apply data governance controls, including residency, PII masking, access controls, retention, erasure, and lineage.
- Set SLOs, freshness and quality checks, and actionable alerting.
- Identify data-platform cost drivers and implement guardrails and attribution.
- Break initiatives into measurable delivery phases with migration paths.
- Use AI-assisted development and prepare governed data for safe agent use.
- Write documentation and golden paths and incorporate engineer feedback.
- Review designs and code and improve production-grade data and API practices.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave in addition to bank holidays.
- Paid maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Extended unpaid and paid sabbatical options after milestone years.
- Private family health insurance with OPD coverage and top-up options.
- Accidental and life insurance.
- Access to therapy sessions, courses, meditations, and workshops.
- Paid volunteering and personal-growth days.
- Work from abroad for up to 90 days annually.
- Home office setup contribution.
- Laptop replacement and ownership of the old laptop.
- Office snacks, coffee, tea, and lunch where available.