Data Engineering Lead at 9fin.com

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Job Title: Data Engineering Lead

Salary: £115k + Equity

Company Description: 9fin.com http://9fin.com - Series B AI-powered fintech SaaS

Job Description:
As Data Engineering Lead, you will own the technical direction of a platform centralizing data for the $141 trillion debt capital market. You'll lead the evolution of ingestion, orchestration, and customer-facing APIs, transforming data into a reliable product capability for top tier investment banks and asset managers globally.

Location: London, UK

Why this role is remarkable:

- Significant impact at a fast-growing Series B scale-up backed by Spark Capital and Highland Europe, with 400% ARR growth since Series A.

- Unique opportunity to modernize the $141 trillion debt market, moving trillions in trades from 1980s-era systems to real-time AI analytics.

- High-agency environment where you own the platform end-to-end, growing a team from 1-2 to 4 engineers over the next 18 months.

What you will do:

- Own the production data platform architecture across AWS and GCP, ensuring operational reliability and industrializing customer-facing data feeds.

- Define the data engineering operating model, setting standards for ingestion, CI/CD guardrails, and schema contracts to accelerate product delivery.

- Act as a hands-on player-coach, spending 75% of your time building and 25% mentoring talent to reduce key-person dependency.

The ideal candidate:

- Proven experience building and scaling production-grade data platforms using Python, SQL, and orchestration tools like Dagster or Airflow.

- Strong track record of converting technical infrastructure improvements into measurable business out...