Senior Data Team Lead

UK London

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Data

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3 Mar 2026

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R-0004525

We’re reinventing payments.
In less than four years, Dojo disrupted the market to become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK. Our payments infrastructure, purpose-built for in-person commerce, is game changing.

Now, over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year.
But we’re just getting started.

Our people are the driving force behind our success. They are our greatest investment and our ultimate competitive advantage. We hire exceptional people and give them the autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. The results take care of themselves.

 

The Role…

We are looking for a Senior Data Team Lead to lead a team of analytics engineers implementing commercial strategies across Europe critical for dojo’s growth.

You will be responsible for running, shaping and extending solutions to incentivise and compensate our Partnership and Payment Consultant sales channels. These solutions pay out tens of millions of pounds, and have a material impact on dojo’s commercial performance. 

You will turn business requirements and strategy into scalable solutions which deliver broad capabilities to support dojo’s ambitions, not just features.

This role sits sits within the Data team and works closely with the Partnerships, Commercial, and Enterprise Technology teams.

What you will do….

  • Design, plan and develop solutions in dbt, airflow and python which are scalable, resilient, observable and flexible to support the changing needs of the business.
  • Lead, Grow, and Shape a High-Performing Team of 3 AEs. Set clear expectations around ownership, quality, and impact, while fostering psychological safety and accountability.
  • Actively manage team health, development, and long-term capability growth.
  • Provide visibility through Looker and other tools on the performance of your solutions from technical and business outcome perspectives.
  • Collaborate with engineers to ensure complete alignment on handovers and data flows between data and engineering services. 
  • Co-own roadmaps with PMs, Commercial, and Engineering. Trading off priorities and developing innovative solutions to problems Senior Data Team Lead: Incentive Engineering 1
  • Be hands-on as needed to support data needs- using dbt, looker, airflow, python and other tools to deliver scalable data products.
  • Actively participate and contribute to Dojo’s wider AE and Data maturity through the AE Chapter. 

What you will bring

  • A strong sense of ownership and a focus on delivering outcomes for the business.
  • You have strong experience in analytics engineering practice, project design and delivery.
  • You have proven experience leading, mentoring, or coaching data practitioners.
  • You can collaborate with people in various roles across data, stakeholders and beyond.
  • You can communicate effectively within a team and with non-technical stakeholders to understand requirements and business context.
  • You can use data visualisation tools to convey insights and drive actionable decisions.
  • Exposure to commercial strategies and incentives a strong plus.

Dojo home and away

We believe our best work happens when we collaborate in-person. These “together days” foster communication, drive innovation and spark our brightest ideas.

That's why we have an office-first culture. This means working from the office 4+ days per week.

With offices across Europe, we know a thing or two about staying dynamic. Need deep focus? Head to a quiet zone. Big ideas? Collaboration spaces have you covered. Just here for a catch-up? Our social hubs make it easy. Do work that counts, in spaces made for you.


Question: what’s curious, relentless, and customer obsessed?

If you’re keen to know the answer, you’re a third of the way to meeting our Dojo values.

If the following speak to you, let’s talk:

  • You’re curious. You have a real desire to learn and create.
  • You’re relentless. You keep going even when it’s easier not to. 
  • You’re customer-obsessed. You know how important customers are to what you do. 

 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion at Dojo

From local bakeries to well-known eateries, Dojo payments serve over 150,000 places across the UK. 

And something that’s fundamental to creating relevant, innovative products at Dojo is to build teams to reflect the diversity of the businesses we serve.

Our drive to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion is closely linked to helping employees thrive and innovating for better customer experiences.

If you care about your work, you’re curious, and you think customer-first, you have a place at Dojo.

To make sure you’re the best you can be throughout the recruitment process, let us know if you need any extra adjustments to help you thrive. 

 

Visit dojo.careers to find out more about our benefits and what it’s like to work at Dojo, or check out our LinkedIn and Instagram pages. 

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