Overview
The Data Engineering Chapter Lead is responsible for defining, growing, and leading the Data Engineering discipline within Admiral Money. You will oversee a discipline, including engineers focused on building, maintaining, and evolving the data ingestion patterns, pipelines, and data contracts that deliver data to power analytics, operational reporting, data science, and wider business decision‑making. The Data Engineering Chapter Lead owns the technical direction, standards and capability for all Data Engineering. You will guide engineering excellence, support cross‑team delivery, develop people and ensure data foundations are scalable, reliable, and governed.
Leadership & Strategy
* Own the Data Engineering Chapter; the skills, standards, growth and ways of working.
* Define engineering best practices, coding standards and quality controls.
* Shape the future technical direction for data pipelines, architecture and ingestion patterns.
Technical Ownership
* Oversee the design of scalable, secure, reusable pipelines and data services.
* Review architectures and engineering approaches to ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
* Drive improvements to performance, reliability, quality, observability and resilience.
Collaboration & Delivery
* Work closely with the whole Data & Analytics department and wider business teams.
* Support squads by unblocking technical challenges and providing expert guidance.
* Contribute to strategic decision making around data models, patterns and solution design.
People Leadership
* Lead, mentor and develop a chapter of analytics platform engineers and specialists.
* Build an open, collaborative culture that fosters continuous improvement.
Essential Qualifications
* Deep experience designing and building production‑grade data pipelines.
* Strong SQL and Python skills with hands‑on cloud experience (AWS preferred).
* Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a team or chapter model.
* Deep understanding of modern data architecture patterns (ELT, streaming, CDC).
* Strong communicator who can influence technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Desirable Qualifications
* Infrastructure as code (Terraform), Kubernetes, or Go/TypeScript experience.
* Experience in regulated industries.
* Familiarity with dbt, Airflow and event‑driven architectures.
About Admiral Money
Admiral Money is the dynamic lending arm of Admiral Group, offering personal loans, motor finance, and homeowner loans since 2017. We’re building something special for our customers and are looking for curious, driven individuals ready to learn, take on challenges, and make an impact.
Benefits
We’re proud to be a certified Great Place to Work for over 25 years, with recognition for Women and Wellbeing. Our inclusive culture empowers everyone to be you. You can grow and progress at a pace and direction that suits you, make a difference for our customers, and share in our future with up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing up to a maximum of 38 days. Additional annual leave may be bought or sold.
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