Lead Data Analytics Engineer
The Collinson Group9 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise approach to analytical data modelling, including domain models, dimensional models, and semantic layers.
- Establish reusable modelling patterns and common business entities for consistent Data Products.
- Lead analytics automation for development, testing, deployment, documentation, and monitoring.
- Build reusable automation capabilities, frameworks, tools, templates, and engineering accelerators.
- Apply Snowflake Cortex, LLMs, intelligent agents, and automation to improve engineering productivity and quality.
- Improve developer experience, self-service delivery, platform performance, reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering maturity.
- Provide technical direction for complex, cross-domain engineering challenges and decisions.
- Enable analytics squads to independently build and operate trusted Data Products within engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers, support communities of practice, and raise technical capability across teams.
- Partner with the Head of Analytics Engineering to shape the technical roadmap and future engineering capability.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on Analytics Engineering or Data Engineering experience with deep expertise in data modelling, Snowflake, dbt, and SQL.
- Proven experience building automation, reusable engineering frameworks, and scalable analytical architectures.
- Strong technical leadership experience influencing multiple teams, solving complex engineering challenges, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Experience applying GenAI, LLMs, AI agents, or Snowflake Cortex to engineering automation.
- Hands-on experience with Python, Git, data contracts, data quality, and observability.
- An individual-contributor mindset with the ability to define strategy and implement working code, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.
- Experience enabling self-service engineering across distributed analytics teams is desirable.
- Modern data observability and lineage experience is desirable.
Benefits
- Competitive reward package supporting financial, physical, and mental wellbeing.
- Opportunities to learn, develop, and receive recognition for contributions.
- Benefits vary by role and location, with full details provided during the application process.
- The employer is an equal opportunities organization welcoming applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.
About The Collinson Group
Collinson Group builds travel experience and customer loyalty products for airlines, payment networks, and financial services brands, and sells travel insurance and assistance direct and via partners. Its portfolio includes Priority Pass and LoungeKey airport lounge access, plus loyalty strategy and rewards platforms used worldwide. Privately held and headquartered in London, the company was founded in 1985 and operates across the travel and financial services sectors.