Lead the technical evolution of a data platform powering the $141 trillion debt capital market. As a hands-on player/coach, you will own the ingestion, orchestration, and warehousing infrastructure that 9 of the top 10 investment banks rely on. You will industrialize customer-facing data products and scale the engineering team during a period of 400% ARR growth.
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London, United Kingdom~£115k + Equity
Data Engineering Lead at Series B AI-powered debt capital markets platform
Debt capital markets represent a $141 trillion space still running on fragmented, outdated technology—and this Series B scale-up is changing that. As Data Engineering Lead, you will own the technical direction for a platform used by 9 of the top 10 global investment banks. Backed by Spark Capital and following a $50M funding round, this is a rare opportunity to lead the industrialization of data-as-a-product. If you are a high-agency engineer with deep Python/SQL expertise who wants to build reliable, scalable infrastructure for the world's largest asset class, this is the role for you.
Overview
Role overview
Company
9fin
Finance
Series B AI-powered financial analytics platform backed by Spark Capital and Highland Europe
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end data engineering operating model, defining ingestion, orchestration, and warehouse foundations across the entire organization.
- Lead the development of commercial-grade APIs and data feeds, implementing SLA-driven operations and clear schema contracts for global institutional clients.
- Mentor and grow a high-performing data engineering team, shifting from 1-2 to ~4 reports while maintaining a 75% hands-on technical focus.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Proven experience building and scaling production data platforms using Python, SQL, and modern orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow.
- Strong architectural fluency in cloud-native environments, specifically across AWS and GCP with practical Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
- High-agency leader who has successfully transitioned data infrastructure from early-stage to growth-stage maturity within a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Direct ownership of a critical platform at a $50M Series B scale-up where data is the core product, not just a support function.
- High-impact mission to modernize the world's largest asset class by replacing fragmented, 1980s-era tooling with real-time AI analytics.
- Exceptional culture of high autonomy and execution, working alongside founders who have scaled the company to support firms with $17 trillion AUM.
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