Head of Engineering - Data & Intelligence

The Impact You Will Have

As Head of Engineering for Data & Intelligence, you will lead a critical engineering organisation, setting technical direction, shaping team structures, and driving engineering maturity across the data domain. Your ownership spans the ingestion of external and intelligence data sources through to serving foundational datasets that power our products. As the business scales rapidly, you will ensure our data pipelines, infrastructure, and engineering practices scale reliably, enabling high-performance data flows and empowering teams across the company to build on robust, well-engineered foundations.

You will be the strategic and technical leader working closely alongside senior engineers, product, and intelligence teams to build the operating model, shape strategy, and mature the organisation while maintaining delivery momentum and earning trust across the team and peers. Elliptic is known for its extensive and reliable datasets—you will play a critical role in ensuring that reputation scales as the business grows.

What You Will Do

• Own the technical vision and platform roadmap for the data domain, working with principal engineering on architectural decisions balancing business need, reliability, cost, and innovation
• Build and mature organisational structure, team boundaries, ownership models, ways of working, and hiring plans for the domain
• Set delivery standards and cadences that improve predictability without sacrificing velocity
• Drive operational excellence by steering SLAs, observability, data quality practices, and incident response to ensure the platform is reliable, measurable, and continuously improving
• Serve as the primary point of contact for data engineering across product, commercial, intelligence, operations, and finance teams
• Partner with engineering managers to assess team performance and contribute to hiring, development, and retention of strong engineering leaders
• Navigate strategic trade-offs between supporting product and revenue teams and building reliable, scalable infrastructure with transparency and integrity
• Scale responsibility as the engineering function grows and matures

You Will Be a Great Fit If You

• Get energised by building and scaling teams, structures, practices, and strategies that enable sustained growth and technical excellence
• Have experience leading engineering organisations through periods of rapid growth and increasing complexity
• Understand data infrastructure, pipelines, and platform engineering at a systems level
• Demonstrate strong leadership presence with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Balance pragmatism with long-term vision, making sound architectural decisions under uncertainty
• Value operational excellence, reliability, and measurable outcomes
• Communicate clearly about trade-offs, constraints, and strategic choices

💰 Compensation not publicly listed. Market estimate for similar roles: from $80K, varying by experience and location.