2 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, scale, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines on the Trino and Iceberg Lakehouse stack.
- Implement extraction, cleaning, modeling, and validation across Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallion Architecture layers.
- Process high-throughput financial event data with Kafka and real-time computation models while meeting data freshness SLAs.
- Embed automated reconciliation checks, including balance and double-entry validations, into production data pipelines.
- Collaborate with finance controllers, analysts, product, and engineering stakeholders to develop production-ready data schemas.
- Address data scaling constraints, technical debt, and compute optimization to align infrastructure costs with financial targets.
- Coach junior and mid-level engineers and conduct code and technical design reviews.
- Build reusable libraries, framework layers, documentation, and automated tooling for onboarding new data sources.
Requirements
- Proven experience building data infrastructure with Trino or Presto and open table formats such as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake.
- Deep expertise in Medallion Architecture, star schemas, and semi-structured financial data logs such as JSON and Avro.
- Expert proficiency with data transformation engines such as dbt and scheduling tools such as Airflow.
- Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and streaming processing with Apache Kafka.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, or an object-oriented language such as Java or Scala.
- Experience in regulated SOX/PCAOB compliance environments is preferred.
- Familiarity with cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake and cloud compute orchestration is preferred.
- Experience with financial flows, double-entry ledger systems, or accounting integrations is preferred.
- Strong technical ownership, communication, and ability to connect engineering requirements with financial analyst needs.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111k–£145k plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement in London.
- Opportunity to build reusable financial data infrastructure for a global fintech processing billions in cross-border volume.
- Direct collaboration with product, data platform, engineering, and global financial stakeholders.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Wise
Wise builds a cross-border payments and multi-currency account used by individuals and businesses to send, receive, hold, and spend money in 40+ currencies. Revenue comes from transfer and account fees, card interchange, and enterprise partnerships via Wise Platform, which lets banks and large companies embed its international payments. Founded in 2011 as TransferWise, Wise is a London-headquartered public company.