Lead Engineer, Data Platform

ABOUT TIDE At Tide, we help SMEs save time and money in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions, from invoicing to accounting. Tide is transforming the small business banking market and now supports over 2 million members globally across the UK, India, Germany and France. Using advanced technology, all solutions are designed with SMEs in mind. With quick onboarding, low fees and innovative features, we thrive on making data driven decisions to serve our mission: to help SMEs save time and money so they can get back to doing what they love. Tide facts: Tide is available for UK, Indian, German and French SMEs Over 2 million members globally and rapidly growing Over $300 million raised in funding 3,000 Tideans globally Recognised with Great Place to Work certification three years in a row, and among India’s Top 50 Best Workplaces in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance in 2026 We have offices in Central London, with a member support and technology centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, technology centres in Serbia, Romania, Lithuania and Hyderabad and offices in Gurugram, New Delhi, Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg About The Team The Data Platform Engineering team builds the platform that Tide's data producers and consumers rely on: backend engineers, data engineers, data scientists and, increasingly, AI agents. We own how data is produced, moved, stored, modelled, governed and served across the UK, EU and India, on GCP with BigQuery at the core. Our mission is to make the right way the easy way: self-service capabilities with quality, security and cost controls built into the infrastructure, judged by whether teams choose to adopt them, not whether we mandate them. About The Role As Lead Engineer, Data Platform, you will be a hands-on individual contributor who leads platform initiatives within a clear technical direction set by the Data Infrastructure team. You will own small-medium platform initiatives and quarterly goals, taking them from design through to shipping and running them in production, and you will work closely with the Data Infrastructure Engineering Manager and the wider platform team. In this role you will Design and deliver self-service paths so engineers can onboard new sources, datasets and pipelines without a ticket queue, with access, masking, quality and cost controls defined in infrastructure as code and CI/CD. Improve ingestion and transformation capabilities so data is fresher and more reliable, handling ordering, duplicates, late data, deletes, replay and backfill, and migrate pipelines without breaking downstream tables. Apply governance in what you build: residency, PII masking, least-privilege and just-in-time access, retention and erasure, and lineage. Set SLOs, freshness and quality checks, and alerting that tells on-call what matters.