Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £85,000.
Just over 3 years building production dbt models on cloud warehouses, Databricks SQL and BigQuery, inside medallion architectures. Testing discipline is what they actually talk about, dbt tests, schema tests, SQL linting and CI/CD reliability through Azure DevOps. They use Claude Code and Copilot for dbt modelling and PR review as a matter of routine, which is still unusual at this level.
Looking forWants the senior analytics engineer title and a genuinely modern stack, plus equity they can hold for 4 or 5 years. dbt is non-negotiable for them.
How they came acrossPromoted within 3 months of joining, with an early pay review alongside it. That is their own account, but a believable one. They knew they were asking above their years and said so before we did.
SQL, Python, jinja · dbt Core, tests, macros, Semantic Layer · Databricks SQL, BigQuery · Azure DevOps, Tableau, Superset
3 employers in 4 years, a recruitment software scale-up, a media agency group and now a fintech savings platform. Average tenure 1 year 4 months, longest stint 2 years 7 months.
Just over 3 years of experience against an £80,000 ask and a senior title, which sits ahead of where most senior analytics engineer briefs land. They also say office days have to be matched by the money.
Masters in business analytics from a Russell Group university.
Owned analytics end to end at a premium beauty technology retailer, which meant building the infrastructure as well as reading it. BigQuery with Dataform for the transformation layer, stored procedures, Cloud Run and Cloud Scheduler for orchestration, then Tableau and Power BI on top. Three years before that at a UK e-commerce trade association, moving from junior analyst to digital product analyst.
Looking forThe role ended in January when private equity ownership cut the analytics spend and moved the money to engineering and maintenance. Wants a startup or scale-up where the data team sits next to product and commercial decisions, and fintech appeals.
How they came acrossOur recruiter scored the communication 9 out of 10, and the note is about curiosity rather than polish. Asks about the business before the schema, and wants juniors to mentor.
SQL, Python, Pandas · BigQuery, Dataform, stored procedures · Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, ETL · Tableau, Power BI, GA4
5 employers over 10 years, from market research and telematics into e-commerce benchmarking and then consumer retail analytics. Average tenure 1 year 2 months, longest stint 3 years.
Out of work since January and asking only £60,000, so expect movement elsewhere. Won't work in gambling, tobacco or oil and energy.
Masters in management consulting.
First analytics engineer hire at a betting exchange, where they ran a £3m analytics transformation and ended up managing 3 engineers. dbt for the transformation layer with real documentation and Git workflow behind it, semantic layers underneath, Lightdash for self-service BI, across Snowflake, BigQuery and Redshift with Airflow orchestrating. They have since moved to a blockchain analytics business, adding AI product work with LangChain, LangGraph and RAG alongside the platform and reliability side.
Looking forWanted something closer to financial services with more of the business and stakeholder half in it, and a route towards leading a team. They enjoy the non-technical side as much as the technical side, which is not common in this discipline.
How they came acrossTranslates technical work for a C-suite audience without flattening it, which is why adoption of the BI layer they built ran at 95%. Balances competing demands from trading, product, marketing and compliance teams and seems to like doing it.
SQL, Python, Spark · dbt, semantic layers, Lightdash · Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Airflow · LangGraph, RAG
7 employers over 8 years, from data science roles in West Africa and eastern Europe into a UK lender, a betting exchange and now a blockchain analytics business. Average tenure 1 year 3 months, longest stint 2 years 10 months.
Our last proper conversation was September 2025 and they changed employer in January 2026, so the salary, the notice and the reason for moving all need re-checking. Average tenure of 1 year 3 months across 7 employers is short.
Masters in data science. CFA Level II candidate.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
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