1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, scale, and optimize end-to-end data pipelines on Trino and Iceberg Lakehouse infrastructure.
- Implement Bronze, Silver, and Gold Medallion Architecture layers for extraction, cleaning, modeling, subledgers, and financial metrics.
- Build and operate high-throughput streaming pipelines using Kafka and real-time computation models.
- Embed automated reconciliation, balance, and double-entry validation checks into data pipelines.
- Partner with finance controllers, analysts, product, and engineering to translate finance requirements into production-ready data schemas.
- Address data scaling constraints, technical debt, and compute optimization to align infrastructure costs with financial targets.
- Create reusable libraries and framework layers for onboarding new data sources.
- Coach junior and mid-level engineers and conduct code and technical design reviews.
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.
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and stream processing with Apache Kafka.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, or an object-oriented language such as Java or Scala.
- Experience in regulated SOX or 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 cross-functional collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Starting salary of £111k–£145k plus RSUs.
- Hybrid work arrangement in London.
- Opportunity to build core financial data infrastructure for a global fintech.
- Collaboration with product, data platform, engineering, and global finance teams.
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.