Lead Data Consultant

Data-driven. Insight-led. Business-focused. If you’re an experienced Data Engineer looking for a role where you can shape the entire data strategy, this could be for you.

We’re partnering with a high-growth FinTech challenger that’s transforming later-life lending. They need a Lead Data Consultant who can architect, optimise, and scale their data platform—not just to manage pipelines, but to drive customer insights, segmentation, and acquisition strategies.

As the sole Data Engineer, you’ll have full ownership of defining and evolving the data ecosystem. You’ll work closely with business stakeholders across marketing, product, and risk to ensure data is leveraged to support customer acquisition, engagement, and operational efficiency.

You’ll be responsible for:? Data Strategy & Leadership – advising on best practices for scalability, cost efficiency, and governance? Data Engineering & Modelling – designing ETL/ELT pipelines, optimising the AWS-based data lake? Customer & Business Insight – enabling customer segmentation and predictive modelling to drive growth? Stakeholder Enablement – enhancing self-service analytics via Looker and other BI tools? Cost & Performance Optimisation – improving data ingestion and transformation while keeping cloud costs low

Cloud & Storage: AWS (DMS, Lambda, Glue, S3, Athena)Data Processing: Python, ParquetBI & Analytics: LookerData Ingestion: StitchData Sources: Broker & customer data, mortgage applications, affordability models, CRM (HubSpot), marketing campaigns, property data, FCA & valuation data

A strategic problem-solver – you understand the challenges a FinTech faces and how data can solve themA hands-on engineer – you’ve built and optimised cloud-based data platformsA commercial thinker – you can translate data into meaningful business insightsA cost-conscious leader – you can balance innovation with efficiency

Own the data function – be the go-to expert, setting the data strategy from the ground upEquity in a growing FinTech – share in the company’s successFully remote (UK-based) – work from anywhere with flexibilityMake a real impact – your insights will shape customer strategy and acquisition

Interested?This is a high-impact role in a company that sees data as a growth driver, not just an IT function.