Senior data analytics engineer

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This is a hybrid position with one of our offices in London, Bath or Edinbrough.

About us

Seccl is the Octopus-owned embedded investment platform that's on a mission to helping more people to invest - and invest well.

We're B-Corp certified with an amazing product-market fit, impressive early traction and the potential to transform an outdated industry, for the better. We've been growing fast and will scale even faster over the next few years.

We're also proud to be part of Octopus, the £multi billion group that's on a mission to breathe new life into broken industries, through companies like Octopus Energy, Octopus Investments and Octopus Money.

Check out the Seccl website for the latest on our products and our mission to shape the future of investments.

The role

We're looking for Senior data analytics engineer to join our data team. You will play a key role in expanding and improving our data warehouse and BI capabilities. You will work closely with key stakeholders to shape and deliver key features for our clients. You will help drive improvements in the team by suggesting improvements to existing processes, new technologies and ways of working.

On a typical day you will be...

• Working in an agile t-shaped data team and with colleagues across all other teams

• Building and implementing a range of developments across areas including our pipelines, data warehouse and BI tool

• Hands-on in terms of development, testing, debugging, deployment and support

• Involved with specification and documentation

• Develop and promote appropriate processes and best practice

• Provide expertise on promoting best use of data and our tools throughout the company.

• Help develop and promote appropriate processes and best practice, always looking for better ways of working to drive scalability.

You'll be successful if you ...

• Experienced designing data modelling and data analytics

• Are experienced with data, BI or analytics engineering practices

• Are experienced in designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines using streaming or CDC events.

• Have expert knowledge of SQL

• Have hands on experience working in the AWS technology stack

• Excited about working in a rapidly growing fintech that will throw you in at the deep end, and where your learning curve will be steep

• Able to understand business requirements and turn this into efficient, scalable solutions, with a desire to learn our business domain

• Experienced in troubleshooting and problem-solving

• A strong communicator with the ability to express new ideas and solutions to both technical and non-technical audience

• Organised and a strong team player

• A quick learner, able to pick up new skills and technologies easily and enjoys working on complex issues

• Experienced in wealth management - beneficial

• Experience with Redshift, dbt, python and Google Looker - beneficial

This role isn't for you if...

• You rely on a lot of top-down direction. Here, you'll have a lot of freedom and ownership of your role, and you'll be expected to shape your own progression

• You're not comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. Our speed and scalability are what set us apart; you need to be able to act quickly and think on your feet

• You struggle to follow through on ideas. We value people who do what they say they will. If you care about something, you have the freedom here to make it happen

• You don't like change. You'll get on great here if you relish the ambiguity of rapid growth and are willing to embrace uncertainty

What's in it for you...

We offer a generous mix of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including:

A salary between £75 000 and £90 000 - dependant on experience + reviewed annually

27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave

Two volunteering days per year

Length of service award - one month paid sabbatical at eight years
• 6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance

Private medical insurance with AXA Health

Enhanced Parental leave

MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget

£750 per person learning budget

Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year

Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace

Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan, will writing offering via Octopus Legacy and Seccl invest (our own platform for you to manage your investments)

Perkbox - Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts.

Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing

Our culture

We're proud to put people first, creating a culture where we truly listen to what matters most to them. Our transparent and inclusive environment encourages diversity of thought, challenge and experimentation.

Check out our Glassdoor page for the latest reviews or our LinkedIn for company updates and insights from the team.

Interview process

Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):

• First stage - 45 mins competencies-based interview with the hiring manager

• Second stage - one-hour technical interview or assessment

• Final stage - 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview

We'll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don't miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying.

Our aim is to build a diverse and inclusive company of awesome people, with unique skills, passions and experiences. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, we encourage you to apply even if you don't tick every box. We'd love to hear from you!

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