Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £85,000 to £110,000.
13 years across the full data stack, with dbt, Snowflake and Looker at the centre of the last few. They model the data, design the semantic layer and build the BI on top, with the stated aim that analysts and business teams never have to come back to engineering to ask a question. Sits in a squad of 8 inside a 100-person data organisation at one of the UK's largest grocery retailers, handling sensitive employee data alongside high-volume online grocery.
Looking forTheir role is being offshored, so they are moving before it happens rather than after. Wants a smaller cross-functional data team somewhere investing in AI and self-serve, with flexibility on start and finish times.
How they came acrossTranslates for non-technical stakeholders without needing anyone in the middle, and they showed that on the call. Communication scored 8.5 out of 10. Proud of their debugging, and looks past the table to what the answer is for.
SQL, dbt Core and Cloud, Snowflake, Python · Looker, LookML, Tableau, Power BI · Airflow, Fivetran, Kafka · Great Expectations
3 employers over 14 years, starting in engineering services and IT consulting in India before moving into analytics engineering at a B2C marketplace and then one of the UK's largest grocery retailers. Average tenure 1 year 7 months, longest stint 4 years 3 months.
Their whole team is being offshored, so there is a clock on this one. They also rule out very large siloed data organisations, which is precisely what they are leaving.
Bachelors in electrical, electronics and communications engineering.
Sole analytics engineer on the credit card product at a digital bank, and it is the largest product there, so they own the whole function for it. dbt, Snowflake, Azure and Power BI, with Airflow, AWS Glue and Lambda in the pipeline layer and Kimball star schemas underneath. They went from no Azure or Snowflake exposure to productive inside 6 months, which the team noticed.
Looking forProgression at a 1,000-person bank is slower than they want. They would rather set the standards from scratch somewhere smaller than keep retrofitting legacy systems as a team scales around them.
How they came acrossDelivered a securitisation deal and a white label partnership to tight deadlines, and that is what they chose to talk about rather than the tooling. Communication rated 10 out of 10. Straightforward about the personal reason sitting behind their last move.
SQL, dbt, jinja, Python · Snowflake, Redshift, Azure, AWS Glue, Lambda · Airflow, Power BI, Tableau
5 employers over 10 years, from a graduate scheme in aerospace manufacturing and an R&D internship into fintech analytics engineering at an invoice finance business and then a digital bank. Average tenure 1 year 3 months, longest stint 2 years.
Three month notice, which is long at this level. Mild hesitation about gambling, though they stopped short of making it a hard no.
Masters in computer science with artificial intelligence from a Russell Group university.
Batch and streaming at airline scale, 1 to 2TB of booking data a day feeding dynamic pricing models. They are leading the migration off AWS onto Databricks right now. Spark, PySpark, Airflow, dbt and Delta tables day to day, on top of earlier pipeline work at JPMorgan and at a global measurement and analytics business.
Looking forRelocating to Birmingham and will need visa sponsorship to work here. The location matters more to them than the top number, but they want UK market rate for the work.
How they came acrossPractical about scale rather than theoretical about it. The examples they gave were all about systems breaking under load, and they were upfront about the visa timing without being asked twice.
Python, Scala, SQL, PySpark · Spark, Airflow, dbt, Databricks · AWS, Glue, Redshift, Snowflake
4 employers over 14 years, starting at a global IT services firm and moving through a measurement and analytics business, JPMorgan and now a large European airline. Average tenure 2 years 11 months, longest stint 4 years 2 months.
Not yet able to work in the UK, with visa approval expected around the middle of 2026, so sponsorship and timing both need checking early. Moving to Birmingham, so the role has to suit that. Our notes are from May.
Bachelors in computer science and engineering. Airflow Astronomer certified.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank