Data Team Lead (Remote within the UK)

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Data Team Lead to join our growing Data Engineering team. You will be leading a very talented team, playing a key role in setting the team's future strategy, and supporting the ever-growing data needs of the business. You will report directly to the VP of Engineering.

What you can expect to be doing:

• Manage the team of data engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluations

• Set clear and achievable yearly goals and OKRs for the team

• Plan, execute, and track data engineering projects

• Define project scopes, timelines, and resource requirements

• Ensure that data engineering projects align with the organisation’s strategic goals - own the team roadmap and ensure delivery is on time

• Manage stakeholders' expectations and communicate any changes to the delivery dates

• Own schema change reviews. Ensuring that each schema change runs through the Data Engineering team and follows the best practices

• Establish guidelines and processes for Schema Evolution. Defining how and when schema changes are made, tested, and deployed.

• Increase data ingestion pipelines' efficiency in terms of speed and cost

• Establish data governance policies and metadata management to provide the business with clear definitions and documentation of available data

• Support performance optimisation for queries to ensure fast and efficient access to data

• Support business in building and maintaining dashboards, reports, and data visualisations by providing clean and well-structured data

• Ensure that the business has the necessary access to data sources, databases, and data lakes while maintaining data security and privacy standards.

• Collaborate with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues or discrepancies.

What we’re looking for:

• Previous experience leading a Data Engineering team (at least 1 year of experience)

• Production experience working with Databricks

• Previous experience working with a Cloud solution (preferably AWS)

• Senior-level experience writing efficient and scalable Python code

• Senior-level experience working with SQL and Spark SQL

• Senior-level experience with PySpark

• Previous experience working with BI tools

What we’re really looking for: ✍️

Someone with a genuine interest in Chip and is excited about being part of a fast-growing company and our mission to build the investment super app of the future.

Although we’re in the financial space, and under the scrutiny that comes with it, the current data team works well together, and even sometimes with a smile. We’re sure you’ve got the technical skills, otherwise, you would have stopped reading by now, so let us be clear on what will make us want to work with you.

We want a real person, with interests outside of work, to join our team. You could be a dancer, a gamer, a musician, a parent, a hockey fan, or even that one person that still writes Twilight fan-fiction. Doesn’t matter to us.

At the interview stages, we will be looking for empathy, eq, fun stories, and the ability to smile even when things are tough.

⏰ Working Hours ⏰

• Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

• Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Start your weekend early!)

Enjoy a structured yet balanced workweek, with an early Friday finish to kickstart your weekend!

PERKS🎁

• £80,000 - £90,000 per annum

• Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus of up to 10% (Cash) and 5% (Shares) based on your gross annual salary.

• Workplace pension scheme - We invest in your future with a workplace pension scheme, contributing 5% on earnings up to £50,000. Plan ahead with confidence while you grow your career! 🚀

• Private medical insurance (medical history disregarded)

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Cycle to work scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees

• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity

• Flexible working arrangements

• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays, plus the days between Christmas and New Year ✈️

• Annual training budget for courses, workshops, or conferences to help you advance your career.

• £30 per month Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing

• Company laptop

• Opportunity to have a huge impact on our product while fast-tracking your knowledge, responsibility and skills in a high-growth fintech startup 🚀

Our Interview Process: 📖

1. Video screen with someone from our Talent team

2. Video interview with the hiring manager

3. Final interview with VP of Engineering

About Chip

Chip’s mission is to make your life wealthy

We're building the wealth super app of the future. An app to build your long-term wealth across savings, investments and pensions.

We use technology to break down barriers so users can invest like the ultra-wealthy, giving them one simple place to manage, grow and protect their wealth.

The Sunday Times listed Chip as the 6th fastest growing tech company in Britain… and we're not slowing down. Chip serves over 400,000 active customers and looks after over £6billion in assets. These customers trust us to build the most amazing product we can, so working at Chip comes with real purpose.

Chip is being built by a fast-growing team of designers, developers, customer service professionals, marketers, banking experts, and entrepreneurs. Our funding story though is a little different. Chip is one of the most crowd-funded businesses in Europe, having raised over £50m from 29,000 investors, over 9 years. Crowdfunding is in our DNA and only Brewdog has more investors than Chip.

Our vision

To be the most personal digital wealth manager in the UK

Who we are

Chip has a creative and diverse team of 180, from all different backgrounds and industries. We’re driven and passionate people, but no one takes themselves too seriously.

Don’t just take our word for it. We have a few awards under our belt, including Best Personal Finance App at the 2022, 2024 & 2025 British Bank Awards.

Our Values

Be ACCOUNTABLE

Everything you do matters, Care about the end result, Challenge the norm, Disagree, yet commit to making it happen once a decision has been made, Do the best job possible

Be BOLD

Share our Ambition and do your bit to achieve it, Innovate: challenge the norm, break the mould and make it happen, Set goals that truly align with our mission, Do your best for our customers

Be COLLABORATIVE

Work cross-functionally - we win as a team, Build strong relationships based on trust, Treat others fairly and respectfully, Hold others to account, Be supportive and inclusive, Have fun together

Equal Opportunities

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and home life. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

Note to Agencies

Chip does not accept unsolicited CVs from recruiters or employment agencies in response to any of our live roles on our career page. Chip will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited CVs. Chip explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Chip.