Head of Data Platform & Data Products
9fin
| Company | 9fin |
| Category | Data & Analytics |
| Location | London |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Director |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 6 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 10 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
About 9fin
9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion.
Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets.
Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption.
We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.
About the role
We're building the data platform that powers both our internal analytics and, increasingly, our customer-facing data products — screeners, embedded analytics, and data feeds/sharing. This role owns the movement, storage, and productisation of data end to end: from ingesting high-volume operational data out of our Product Engineering services into the lake, to serving it back to customers under a production SLA.
This is a platform and product leadership role, not an analytics or BI modelling role. Our Analytics team already owns dbt, the semantic layer, and internal BI — you partner with them and consume their definitions; you don't rebuild what they own.
What you'll own
- Ingestion — event-driven and CDC streams, stream processing (e.g. Flink), batch, and file-based vendor feeds (SFTP / managed file transfer), landing data from Product Engineering services into the lake
- The lake / lakehouse — Parquet, Trino, table formats, partitioning, and the physical and analytical modelling underneath
- The serving / cache tier — powering customer-facing screeners and analytics at production latency and concurrency
- Data sharing and feeds — governed external delivery via Snowflake / Databricks (Delta Sharing), APIs, and file feeds
- The reverse-ETL platform — pushing derived data back to operational systems and downstream tools
- Data contracts and governance — schema governance, entitlements, and the classification controls that keep sensitive data (e.g. people data) off the customer edge
What we're looking for
- Has built and operated a customer-facing data product under an SLA — embedded analytics, a data-feed/API business, or a data-sharing product — not only an internal warehouse
- Deep experience moving high-volume data in production: event-driven and CDC ingestion, stream processing (Flink), batch, file-based feeds, schema evolution, backfills
- Strong on schema registries and contracts (Avro/Protobuf, evolution, breaking-change handling across producers and consumers) — not just dimensional modelling
- Fluent in Parquet, Trino, streaming (Kafka/Flink), and lakehouse platforms (Snowflake/Databricks), and the throughput and cost engineering that comes with scale
- Product and governance instincts: multi-tenancy, row-level entitlements, usage metering, and data classification
- Bonus: experience in financial data, capital markets, or market-intelligence products (Bloomberg / S&P / 9fin-style).
How you'll work
Peer to the Head of Analytics — you own platform and external data products; they own meaning and internal BI. You consume their semantic layer as a contract, and neither team duplicates the other.
Partner with Product Engineering (our Core and Market Vertical domain teams) as your data producers — defining versioned data contracts and a paved-road ingestion path rather than tapping their raw tables.
Our benefits
We’re a scaling start up, and we enjoy sharing our success, when the company succeeds, we always reinvest that in our people. We also offer huge amount