Analytics Data Platform & Tooling Chapter Lead

We are recruiting for an Analytics Data Platform & Tooling Chapter Lead to join our Data & Analytics Department in Admiral Money.

The Analytics Data Platform & Tooling Chapter Lead is responsible for defining, growing, and leading the Analytics Data Platform & Tooling discipline within Admiral Money. You will oversee a discipline, including Engineers focused on building, maintaining, and evolving the data platform and consumption tools that power analytics, operational reporting, data science, and wider business decision‑making.

Data is the lifeblood of Admiral Money. This role ensures that data is collected reliably, processed efficiently, governed effectively, and consistently delivered to downstream users in a simple, understandable, and high‑trust manner.

As Chapter Lead, you will set engineering standards, coach engineers, shape platform architecture, and work closely with cross‑functional teams to deliver a modern, scalable, cloud‑native data platform that supports the organisation’s growth and strategic objectives.

About us

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.

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.

Need support during the recruitment process? Just let us know – we’re here to help.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Own the strategic roadmap for analytics platforms, tools, and self service enablement.
• Define and govern standards for analytics workspace design, data access, modelling approaches and tool usage.
• Champion a modern analytics ecosystem that drives productivity, quality and innovation.

Platform & Tooling Ownership

• Oversee the design, evolution and reliability of analytics platforms (e.g., PowerBI, Sagemaker environments, governed SQL workspaces).
• Lead decisions on adoption of new tooling and the retirement/rationalisation of legacy tools.
• Partner with Architecture to ensure alignment with enterprise technology frameworks.

Operational Excellence

• Create and maintain robust governance, quality controls, security processes and user onboarding pathways.
• Ensure metadata, lineage, definitions and documentation are complete and consistently maintained.
• Ensure that the appropriate optimisation strategy to manage and maintain costs of the platform.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Work closely with Analytics, Data Engineering, Architecture, Security and Technology teams to maximise value from data.
• Translate analytical needs into clear platform and tooling requirements.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor and develop a Chapter of analytics Platform Engineers and specialists.
• Build an open, collaborative culture that fosters continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong experience delivering and owning analytics/data platforms in a cloud environment.
• Expert knowledge of analytics tooling (PowerBI, Python environments, SQL/BI workspaces, orchestration tools).
• Deep understanding of metadata, quality, governance and self‑service enablement.
• Experience leading technical teams or communities of practice.
• Excellent stakeholder management with ability to translate needs into platform capability.

Desirable

• Experience in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Experience with AWS analytical services (Glue, Athena, Redshift, Sagemaker).
• Familiarity with dbt, Airflow, or other modern analytics engineering tooling.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for 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 the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email georgia.farmer@admiralgroup.co.uk or contact us on   07970136735. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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