Your responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Data Architecture
• • Lead and develop a team of analytics engineers, providing technical mentorship, career guidance, and architectural direction while managing resource allocation across multiple cross-functional squads
• • Drive the technical strategy and implementation of our Looker migration, ensuring seamless transition of data models while collaborating with senior stakeholders to align technical solutions with business objectives
• • Champion the development of AI-powered analytics infrastructure and automated insights while partnering with Data Engineering and AI/ML teams to optimize our data pipeline architecture
• • Establish and enforce data modelling best practices, testing frameworks, and governance standards across the organization, ensuring consistency, quality, and scalability of all data assets
• Team Management & Development
• • Manage technical talent development across the Analytics Engineering Chapter, ensuring effective team rotation between squads based on business priorities
• • Lead knowledge-sharing initiatives to build IG's analytics engineering capabilities and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation
• • Guide cross-functional squads delivering robust, scalable data solutions within focused sprint cycles while developing team members' technical expertise and careers
• • Foster collaboration across IG's four data themes: Business Intelligence, Operational Efficiency, Client Acquisition, and Personalisation
• Strategic Data Solutions & Governance
• • Design and build scalable data models that enable self-service analytics across IG's global FinTech operations
• • Ensure data solutions directly support IG's strategic themes and deliver measurable performance improvements through advanced analytics and automation
• • Champion data quality and governance practices across the organization, creating consistency and quality at scale
• • Manage multiple complex data modeling projects simultaneously, ensuring critical business data models are delivered at pace while maintaining highest standards

Our requirements

• Experience
• • 3+ years of demonstrated experience in analytics engineering or data modelling roles with strong expertise in building scalable data solutions
• • Leadership experience or clear leadership potential with proven ability to mentor technical talent and build high-performing engineering teams
• • Track record of implementing data quality frameworks, governance practices, or technical standards across teams or organizations
• Technical Skills
• • Expert knowledge of dbt including testing frameworks, documentation, and advanced modelling techniques
• • Advanced SQL skills and deep understanding of data modelling concepts with extensive experience on cloud data platforms, particularly Google BigQuery
• • Hands-on experience managing GCP analytics infrastructure as code using Terraform, including BigQuery datasets, Cloud Composer, dataflow pipelines, and IAM configurations
• • Experience with Python programming for data processing and analysis
• • Familiarity with data pipeline orchestration and workflow management tools
• • Proven ability to drive technical migrations and establish best practices
• Leadership & Personal Qualities
• • Excellent technical communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value
• • Strong collaboration skills and commitment to fostering inclusive, innovative technical cultures
• • Ability to influence senior decision-makers and manage complex stakeholder relationships
• • Delivery-focused mindset with capability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality standards
• • Curiosity about financial technology and commitment to understanding complex regulatory environments

What we offer

• Home office equipment reimbursement

• Annual financial bonus

• Private medical cover for you and your family/partner (Medicover)

• Multikafeteria system (you can choose a multisport card, vouchers, etc.)

• Life insurance (Generali)

• Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black, and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organizing events & projects that foster an open, diverse, and inclusive culture

• Career-focused technical and leadership training in-class and online, incl. unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning platform

• Well-being events as well as Employee Assistance Programme

• Summer picnic, New Year party and other social events

• 3 additional days off a year - 1 to celebrate your Birthday and 2 for voluntary work

• App-based parking spots booking system

• Stretching sessions

• Wellbeing weeks