We've made it to our current scale (~50 employees) without any in-house code. Mainly on the back of efficient designs, good use of 3rd party systems, and Excel being very powerful these days provided your data is below a certain size.
That isn't going to cut it for the next phase of our growth. So we're looking for someone to come in and build out internal data pipelines, reconciliations, and generally automate all of our business intelligence.
We want to hire someone who knows what they're doing, and give them the autonomy to build it *right*.