VP – Analytics Engineering

6-month initial contract | Strong extension potential

I’m working with a top-tier global private equity fund that is building a new Analytics Engineering capability within a strategically important area of the business.

This is a genuine build-from-scratch opportunity with the pace, autonomy and influence of a scale-up environment, but with the backing, data and reach of a major global investment organisation.

They are looking for a VP-level Analytics Engineering leader who can combine strong engineering foundations with the ability to lead delivery and operate confidently with senior business and investment stakeholders.

This is not a hands-off Head of Data or transformation role.

You will remain close to the engineering, act as a technical authority for the team, shape architecture and delivery standards, and help translate complex or ambiguous business requirements into high-quality data products.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction and delivery of a new Analytics Engineering capability.
• Act as the go-to technical voice across architecture, data modelling, engineering patterns and platform design.
• Lead a small engineering team from a technical and delivery perspective.
• Remain close enough to the code and architecture to review, challenge and improve engineering decisions.
• Work directly with senior business and investment stakeholders to understand problems and translate them into scalable technical solutions.
• Build trusted data products across complex financial, investment and insurance datasets.
• Establish strong standards around data quality, reconciliation, lineage, testing and governance.
• Design scalable integrations, data models and production engineering workflows.
• Help shape how AI and automation can improve engineering delivery and data workflows.
• Play a major role in the future structure and growth of the team.

What we’re looking for

• Strong software engineering or data engineering foundations.
• Experience leading a relatively small engineering team while remaining technically credible.
• Strong SQL, Python and data modelling skills.
• Experience building and owning production data platforms or data products end to end.
• The ability to challenge engineers on architecture, modelling, pipelines and production design.
• Strong stakeholder skills and the confidence to operate with senior non-technical audiences.
• Experience taking an unclear business problem and working out the right technical solution rather than simply executing a specification.
• Background in a strong engineering environment such as fintech, insurtech, insurance, investment management or financial services.

Particularly relevant backgrounds

Experience across any of the following would be highly attractive:

• Insurance / insurtech
• Insurance investment or asset-management data
• Fintech
• Private markets
• Fixed income / institutional credit
• Investment management
• Reinsurance / annuities

Direct insurance or private-credit experience is advantageous, but strong engineering foundations are more important than having worked in one exact domain.

Technology environment

• Python
• SQL
• Snowflake
• dbt
• APIs / integrations
• Modern orchestration tooling
• CI/CD
• Data quality, reconciliation and lineage

Heavy dbt experience is not essential at VP level. Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to quickly understand and challenge a modern data stack are more important.

This could be particularly interesting for someone who has spent the last few years leading a team of around 4-10 engineers and is now ready to step into broader responsibility without moving away from the technology.

A background combining some consulting or client-facing experience with subsequent hands-on engineering in a fintech, insurtech or financial-services business would also be highly relevant.

They do not need a career CDO who has spent years managing very large organisations. They are looking for someone at the point in their career where this represents an exciting step up in responsibility.

£1,200-£1,500 per day, outside IR35. Initial 6-month contract with strong potential to extend and develop into a longer-term opportunity.