Data Lead

LendInvest is the UKs leading FinTech platform for property finance. Over the past 17 years we have grown from just our two founders to a team of over 200 working to make property finance simple for everyone.

A workplace culture built around trying new things getting things done and having fun while we do it has helped us lend more than 7.5 billion of mortgages put thousands of new or improved homes into the UK housing market and successfully launch on the London Stock Exchange. We have big plans to continue growing the business our products our technology and our people.

About your work

Reporting to the Head of Engineering this is a critical doer-leader position focused on stabilising and remediating our data foundations while shaping our long-term data strategy. This role is ideally suited to a current Senior or Lead Data Engineer ready to take on team leadership or an existing Data Team Lead looking for a new challenge. You will begin as a hands-on technical lead with a clear path to owning the data platform and building and leading the team around it.

You will inherit a complex architectural landscape and play a key technical role working alongside our architecture team for our 2026 Data Transformation Programme. Initially you will own technical direction challenging external partners where required to remediate legacy ingestion issues. Following the initial transformation phase you will take full ownership of the platform ensuring data integrity and improving confidence in data-driven decision making across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with external delivery specialists to troubleshoot and resolve inherited ingestion failures and silent data mutations.

• Take responsibility for a complex data ecosystem addressing legacy ingestion patterns while incrementally building towards a more scalable maintainable and well-architected platform.

• Automate manual data reconciliations and implement robust observability testing and validation frameworks to detect silent data issues enforce data integrity and improve trust in our pipelines.

• Manage the transition from partner-led delivery to a sustainable internal run model ensuring knowledge is fully transferred documented and embedded within the team.

• Build and scale a new internal data engineering function (initially hiring 1-2 engineers) reducing reliance on external partners. Establish engineering standards and challenge existing practices where necessary and upskill Data Analysts to ensure insights are built on a governed high-trust data foundation.

About you

• Expertise in Python (or similar) and advanced SQL with experience building and maintaining reliable well-structured data pipelines and transformation layers.

• Hands-on experience designing and operating cloud-based data platforms (e.g. AWS modern warehouse) including orchestration storage and compute.

• Lead by example setting engineering standards mentoring others and helping build a high-performing data engineering capability.

• Experience applying testing CI/CD infrastructure as code and version control to data platforms to ensure reliability and maintainability.

• Track record of implementing data validation observability and lineage to improve data trust and transparency.

• Comfortable working with existing platforms identifying root causes of instability or inefficiency and incrementally improving them.

• Able to work closely with analysts product and engineering teams to align data solutions with business needs.

Benefits & perks

• Competitive salary company bonus scheme

• Hybrid working policy

• 25 days holiday (increasing with the length of service)

• Private healthcare

• Enhanced parental leave

• Matched pension contributions up to 4%

• Critical illness cover

• Employee Assistance Programme & Mental Health support

• Life assurance

• Regular performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development

• Leadership training for managers

• Give as you earn scheme for charitable donations

• Support for attending conferences and professional learning & development

• Discounts via Perkbox

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Electric car loan scheme

• Monthly socials & annual offsite
  

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging at LendInvest

At LI we believe in bringing your whole selves to work we are committed to a culture of belonging where individuals can form a genuine community. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills.

We are happy to discuss and implement reasonable adjustments to support candidates throughout the recruitment process.