Relay Technologies - Head of Data Platform
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Requirements
• Aim with Precision: You define problems clearly and measure your impact meticulously. • Play to Win: You chase bold bets, tackle the hard stuff, and view constraints as fuel, not friction. • 1% Better Every Day: You believe that small, consistent improvements lead to exponential growth. You move quickly, deliver results, and learn from every experience. • All In, All the Time: You show up and step up. You take ownership from start to finish and do what it takes to deliver when it counts. • People-Powered Greatness: You invest in your teammates. You give and receive feedback with care and candour. You build trust through high standards and shared success. • Grow the Whole Pie: You seek out win-win solutions for merchants, couriers, and our customers, because when they thrive, so do we. • If these resonate, and you combine strong technical fundamentals with entrepreneurial drive, let’s connect. • Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a workplace where everyone thrives.
Responsibilities
• Own the data platform roadmap: transformation, semantic layer, orchestration, and the tooling that makes the team fast • Lead and grow a team of senior analytics engineers, setting technical standards and creating space for them to do their best work • Partner with Engineering to define contracts and expectations for how data is produced at source • Set the self-serve strategy: make data accessible to analysts, PMs, and operators without bottlenecking on your team • Extend the platform for automated and AI-driven systems: Ensure data is structured for programmatic action, with an uncompromising focus on accuracy and observability so that agents act on a foundation of absolute trust. • Own strategy for emerging data types: unstructured data, telematics, real-time signals • Represent the platform in leadership discussions, translating technical constraints into business terms • You've led analytics engineering or data platform teams before, and you're comfortable with both the technical depth and the people leadership • You're a player-coach: you can review a dbt PR, debug a performance issue, and then context-switch to a prioritisation discussion with a VP • You think in systems: how data flows, where quality breaks down, what contracts need to exist between teams • You're pragmatic about standards. You know when to enforce and when to flex • You're comfortable with strong individual contributors and can create alignment without micromanaging • You've worked in environments where data powers not just dashboards but automated systems • You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and you're not afraid to push back when the platform's integrity is at stake • Fast and Focused Hiring Process • Talent Acquisition Interview - 30 min • Hiring Manager Interview - 45 min • Case Study - 1 hour • Values & Impact Interview - 1 hour • Decision and offer within 48 hours. Our process mirrors our pace of work.
Benefits
• Generous equity, richer than 99% of European startups, with annual top-ups to share Relay’s success. • Private health & dental coverage, so comprehensive you’d need to be a partner at a Magic Circle law firm to match it. • 25 days of holidays • Enhanced parental leave. • Hardware of your choice. • Extensive perks (gym subsidies, cycle-to-work, Friday office lunch, covered Uber home and dinner for late nights, and more). • Located in Shoreditch, our office set-up enables the kind of in-person interactions that drive impact. We work 4 days on-site, with 1 day remote.
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