Data Director (Data Analytics and Engineering)

Who are Benifex? 💚💜

We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the world. We believe that everyone deserves an exceptional experience at work, every day, and build workplace technology that makes this happen. Benifex’s mission is to build remarkable experiences that employees love. Today Benifex supports more than five million employees in over 3,000 organisations across more than 100 countries. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀

Why should you apply? 🌟

• Leadership: form part of the senior leadership team across product and engineering
• Impact: this is a 10x role that will help us level up how we use data internally and with our customers
• Ownership: define the data strategy and decide how we  build out the data function
• Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and Best Large Tech Company to Work for 2025
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK or Ireland for this position**

Great benefits:

💰 £120,000-140,000

🤸 Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a month in the office and you must be based in the UK or Ireland.

💸 Full access to our comprehensive benefits package, including discounts from hundreds of high street brands, salary sacrifice schemes across Finance, Health, Tech, and more

✈️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays

🎂 Your birthday off

❤️ Two half day wellbeing days

🏥 Private medical insurance 

🩺 Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day-to-day healthcare

🧠 Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support

🤒 Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)

💰 Referral bonuses

🌟 Enhanced parental leave package - 26 weeks fully paid maternity leave and 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

✈️ Work from Anywhere policy for 90 days

🏖️ Buy and Sell scheme for holidays

💳 £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benifex card will be topped up at the start of each month!

Role Overview 🚀

On our mission to power how the world delivers exceptional employee experience, we are investing heavily in our Product, Engineering, and Data organisations. This year we will be adding further squads and leadership roles to give us the foundations to scale our data capabilities globally.

We are seeking an experienced Data Director to lead, align, and optimise our growing Data organisation (spanning data engineering, analytics, and governance). As a key member of the leadership team, you lead the strategic vision for data along with ensuring operational success by driving the high-quality delivery of that data strategy and initiatives.

Responsibilities 🤘

• Shape the Data Strategy and successfully execute on the rollout Organise and execute the success of our data strategy by tracking progress and proactively identifying and managing risks to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of key initiatives.
• Create unified data workflows to resolve bottlenecks, streamline pipelines and operations, and implement metrics to track data quality, availability, and organisational data maturity.
• You will line manage the team. The team creates the Data Platform, builds a common Data Lake and creates insights. You will coach, mentor, and develop the Data Engineers & Analysts, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation.
• Provide guidance on best practices in data management, governance, and analytics, championing long-term data excellence and compliance.
• Work closely with leadership across product management, engineering, UX, and business stakeholders to ensure data initiatives align with organisational goals.
• Build and motivate high-performing data teams, setting and aligning overarching OKRs related to data outcomes.
• Communicate data strategies, insights, and technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing senior leadership.

What are we looking for? 🔎

• You have a proven track record of creating a Data Platform and/or insights team at a world-class data-centric or tech organisation, either at a company that has scaled significantly (Google, Microsoft, Uber, Booking.com) or a high-growth scale-up Monzo, N26, Personio).
• Demonstrated ability in building and leading high-calibre data organisations encompassing data engineering, analytics, data science, and governance.
• Experienced people leader in data, with proven experience as a manager in a data function.
• Operational Leadership: Translating strategic data goals into execution success, managing data roadmaps, risks, and resource allocation effectively.
• Data Architecture and Governance Mastery: Understanding of data engineering, modern data stacks, cloud technologies AWS, Azure, GCP, and data governance frameworks. Ability to optimise data platforms and processes.
• People Management and Development: Proven ability to coach, mentor, and develop Data Engineers and Analysts, and build high-performing, diverse teams.
• Analytical Problem-Solving Mindset: A proactive and rigorous approach to identifying and solving complex data and organisational challenges.
• Results-Oriented: Focused on delivering data-driven initiatives on time, within budget, and with an emphasis on quality and business impact.
• Mentorship and Collaboration: A natural inclination towards developing others and fostering a collaborative environment between Data, Engineering, and Product teams.

Even if you don't meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our careers page to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.

Our interview process

✌ Benifex understands the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.

📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team

🧪 Interview with VP of Engineering (30 min)

⏳ Interview with our Engineering Director and interim CTO (60-90 min)

🤩 Final interview with Board member (45 min)

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We are a proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during the recruitment process, please let us know with your application.