Responsibilities

• Own the Hozah data platform, from ingestion through to the dashboards the business relies on.
• Take full ownership of the BigQuery and Dataform warehouse, including CI and the path a change takes from a branch to production.
• Build and maintain ingestion from source systems, using tools such as Airbyte or Fivetran for SaaS connectors, alongside database replication and file loads, and know what can go wrong with each.
• Produce every department's KPIs from versioned, tested models, and deliver them on Metabase with no manual spreadsheet step in between.
• Set and monitor freshness expectations for every ingested source, so a stale source alerts a named owner rather than surfacing in a board pack.
• Work with the CFO, COO, CRO and other stakeholders to define and defend metric definitions, pushing back where a requested number would mislead.
• Agree one new data capability with the CTO in your first quarter, then see it into production and adopted by a named business owner.
• Be the platform's sole owner: triage issues, promote changes safely, and be the person the business trusts for numbers.

What We're Looking For

• You've owned a data warehouse or platform alone, or as its lead, including being the one who fixes it when it breaks. You can say exactly what you were accountable for and what you personally changed.
• You write deep SQL on a cloud warehouse such as BigQuery or Snowflake, inside a versioned transformation framework such as Dataform or dbt, with CI around it. You can explain how a change gets from a branch to production, and what stops a bad one getting there.
• You've made a disputed number trusted. You can walk through a specific incident from the last 12 months: how you found it, what the root cause was, and what now stops it happening again.
• You work directly with non-technical stakeholders, and you've refused or reshaped a metric definition you thought was wrong. You can say what you said, and what happened next.
• You've run at least two of the following: change-data-capture or replication, SaaS connectors, and file loads, and you can say what went wrong with each. Streaming experience is not required.
• You've built the dashboard or BI layer yourself for business users, not just fed the data underneath it. You can describe a dashboard you built that changed a decision.
• You've shipped one new data capability end to end, whether that's a machine learning model in production, a near real-time feed or a new data product. You can say who used it and whether it stuck.
• You're comfortable setting your own priorities in a fast-moving SME, and you're happy being the only data person in the company.
• Experience of GCP itself, Terraform, streaming, Kotlin or another JVM language, or Metabase is welcome, but none of it is required.

What We Offer

• Hybrid working, 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
• Sole ownership of the data platform, reporting directly to the CTO.
• The chance to build Hozah's data function from a working base as we scale.
• A strong, high performing culture, with genuine influence over how that culture develops as Hozah grows.
• A fully refurbished, modern office, right next to East Croydon Station (with a fully stocked kitchen, offering free breakfast, lunch and drinks!).