Lead Analytics Engineer

Lead Analytics Engineer / Senior Data Contractor **London / Hybrid | Contract | SaaS / Product-Led Environment** I'm currently supporting a fast-growing SaaS business with an urgent requirement for an experienced **Lead Analytics Engineer / Senior Data Contractor** to help drive and stabilise their analytics capability. This is a highly hands-on role,ideal for someone who enjoys working across **data engineering,analytics,and commercial insight**,with strong exposure to modern cloud data stacks and stakeholder-facing delivery. You'll be joining a fast-paced environment where data is central to product,commercial,finance,and leadership decision-making. ## The Role You'll take ownership of analytics delivery across the business,helping to ensure data is trusted,accessible,and directly supports strategic decisions. Key responsibilities include: * Designing and maintaining scalable **data pipelines and analytical datasets** * Building and refining **SQL / dbt transformation logic** * Developing robust **semantic models and business metrics frameworks** * Delivering high-quality **Power BI dashboards and reporting** * Supporting cloud data warehouse environments such as **Redshift,Snowflake,Databricks,or similar** * Driving data quality,validation,and testing best practice * Working closely with product,commercial,finance,and leadership teams * Translating complex data into clear,decision-ready insight ## Required Experience We're looking for someone with strong hands-on capability across: * Advanced **SQL** * **dbt** * **Python** * **Power BI** * Cloud warehouse experience (**Redshift / Snowflake / Databricks / Fabric / AWS**) * Strong data modelling and semantic layer design * KPI / metrics ownership * Experience in **SaaS,product-led,fintech,or scale-up environments** ## Ideal Background This role would suit someone currently working as a: * Lead Analytics Engineer * Senior Analytics Engineer * Senior Data Engineer * Data & Analytics Lead * BI / Analytics Contractor Location London / hybrid working. If this sounds relevant,please apply or get in touch directly for more information