Data Engineering Lead (£115k + Equity) at 9fin.com

Job Title

Data Engineering Lead

Salary

£115k + Equity

Company Description

9fin.com – Series B AI-powered fintech SaaS

Job Description

As Data Engineering Lead, you will own the technical direction of a platform centralising data for the $141 trillion debt capital market. You’ll lead the evolution of ingestion, orchestration, and customer-facing APIs, transforming data into a reliable product capability for top‑tier investment banks and asset managers globally.

Location

London, UK

Key Takeaways

• Significant impact at a fast-growing Series B scale‑up backed by Spark Capital and Highland Europe, with 400% ARR growth since Series A.
• Unique opportunity to modernise the $141 trillion debt market, moving trillions in trades from 1980s‑era systems to real‑time AI analytics.
• High‑agency environment where you own the platform end‑to‑end, growing a team from 1‑2 to 4 engineers over the next 18 months.

Responsibilities

• Own the production data platform architecture across AWS and GCP, ensuring operational reliability and industrialising customer‑facing data feeds.
• Define the data engineering operating model, setting standards for ingestion, CI/CD guardrails, and schema contracts to accelerate product delivery.
• Act as a hands‑on player‑coach, spending 75 % of your time building and 25 % mentoring talent to reduce key‑person dependency.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and scaling production‑grade data platforms using Python, SQL, and orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow.
• Strong track record of converting technical infrastructure improvements into measurable business outcomes, e.g., improved reliability and faster source onboarding.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in a startup or scale‑up environment with the ability to manage infrastructure‑as‑code and incident response.

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