Analytics Engineering Manager – Fintech Data Leadership in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
Compensation & Market Position: The £97,800–£125,000 range is competitive for an Analytics Engineering Manager in the UK fintech space. Market benchmarks for this level at London-based fintechs typically sit between £90k–£130k, so Monzo is well within — and toward the upper end of — the market. The additional performance-based incentive awards further enhance the total compensation package.
Career Development Signals: This is a genuinely dual-track role — you'll be expected to remain technically hands-on (architecture, pipeline development, code reviews) while also managing 5–6 engineers. This is ideal for senior ICs considering a move into management without fully leaving the technical domain. Skills you'll build include:
- Engineering people management and coaching at scale
- Data governance and best-practice implementation in a regulated fintech
- Hands-on experience with a modern data stack: dbt, BigQuery, Looker
- Cross-functional stakeholder leadership across financial crime and compliance domains
Company & Culture Signals: Monzo is a scale-up fintech (not a startup, not a legacy bank) with a strong engineering culture and a track record of internal mobility. The role sits within a well-defined data discipline, suggesting structural maturity. The 4-stage interview process — including a take-home task and leadership case study — signals they hire carefully.
Green Flags: Visa sponsorship, relocation support, genuine remote flexibility within the UK, and a learning budget all indicate an employer invested in long-term retention. Watch for: On-call responsibilities are mentioned — clarify the rotation frequency and incident load before accepting.
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Analytics Engineering Manager - Fincrime
Location: London / Cardiff / UK Remote | Salary: 💰 £97,800–£125,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance and benefits | Hear from the team ✨
⭐ Our Fincrime Analytics Engineering Team
Our Financial Crime Collective helps keep Monzo and our customers safe. We build effective, proportionate controls to protect against financial crime while delivering great customer outcomes.
Our Analytics Engineering discipline works at the intersection between data, engineering and our collectives — Core, Money, Borrowing, Operations, Financial Crime and beyond.
The AE teams are responsible for building downstream data models from backend services, with the goal of making our Data Warehouse a genuine competitive advantage for Monzo. We want a discipline capable of building a reliable and scalable Data Warehouse to support decision-making in a cost-effective and performant manner.
Managers within Data have two primary responsibilities: people and technical products. Your focus will be on helping engineers with their personal and professional development, listening and guiding them through hard times and celebrating their successes. You will also lead and participate directly in technical initiatives and help Monzo shape its Data organisation — ensuring the team focuses on valuable work and ships things with care and attention to detail.
There will be a strong focus on delivering best practices across our data discipline and helping bring a new level of maturity around Data Governance principles, working collaboratively with others to deliver this.
🔑 You'll play a key role by...
Working in a multi-disciplinary team, you will:
- Be a hands-on leader in building a discipline of exceptional analytics engineers, working to make Data at Monzo the gold standard within the industry
- Nurture between 5 to 6 analytics engineers, supporting, coaching and developing high-performing engineers through regular 1:1s, continuous feedback and strong relationships
- Aid prioritisation of initiatives and projects, working closely with other leads across Monzo's collectives
- Be hands-on through participating in the review cycle, architecture and design leadership, and development of your own changes to the pipelines
- Be part of the hiring team within Analytics Engineering
- Work closely with other leads to deliver a scalable, consistent approach to governance and best practices
- Drive effective project management of central Analytics Engineering projects, ensuring they're well scoped and delivered to deadlines
- Establish yourself as a trusted partner to various collectives and the leadership team
- Own and support the pipelines you contribute to; on-call support out of hours will be expected from time to time
🤩 We'd love to hear from you if…
You have experience managing or mentoring the performance and development of high-performing engineers, and:
- You have strong experience in data warehousing architecture at scale
- You have experience and a passion for leading data warehousing, data visualisation, big data or ETL projects as an analyst, developer, designer or architect
- You know what it takes to hire great engineers within the data space
- You're equally comfortable working hands-on and leading a team
Nice To Haves:
- Any experience working within a finance or banking environment
- Experience working in a highly regulated environment (e.g. finance, insurance, gaming, food, healthcare)
- Experience with any of our stack: dbt, BigQuery and Looker
Not ticking every box? That's totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we're dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you're passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply — even if you don't have everything listed just yet. Drop us your application, we'd love to hear from you!
🙌 What's in it for you
- 💰 £97,800–£125,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance and benefits
- ✈️ We'll help you relocate to the UK
- ✅ We can sponsor your visa
- 📍 This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London)
- ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team
- 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences
- 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup
- ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits
🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps
- Recruiter Screening Call
- Initial Call
- Take Home Task
- Final Loop (3 sessions — case study, collaboration and people leadership)
This process should take around 2–3 weeks. Your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!
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Equal opportunities for everyone
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we're making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we're embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.
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