Data Platform Engineer

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company leading the way in a rapidly changing environment. Our goal is to simplify the business of running a business for our customers and free them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a unified, world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation to power our growth and strategic initiatives.

As we lean into our mission to “simplify the business of running a business”, WEX is looking to simplify and reimagine experiences, starting from the customer perspective. We are looking for a Data Architect to develop, optimize, and oversee our company’s conceptual and logical data systems. To succeed in this role, you should know how to examine new data system requirements and implement migration models.

The ideal candidate will also have proven experience in data analysis and management, with excellent analytical and problem-solving  this role, you’ll learn the end-to-end customer experience by partnering with the data Product Management team on their strategic roadmap. You will do this through performing and developing the following competencies:
Strategic Mindset, Customer Obsessed, Results Focused, Insights Driven, Trusted Partner, Relevant Expertise.

This is an Individual contributor role.

• Deliver best in class experiences and enabling capabilities that delight customers and win in the market.

• Design and implement effective database solutions and models to store and retrieve company data.

• Examine and identify database structural necessities by evaluating client operations, applications, and programming.

• Assess database implementation procedures to ensure they comply with internal and external regulations.

• Install and organize information systems to guarantee company functionality.

• Prepare accurate database design and architecture reports for management and executive teams.

• Oversee the migration of data from legacy systems to new solutions.

• Monitor the system performance by performing regular tests, troubleshooting, and integrating new features.

• Recommend solutions to improve new and existing database systems.

• Leverages qualitative and quantitative data to measure results, inform roadmap and achieve benefit, adoption and financial results

• Cross collaborates with Sr PMs / Analytics / UX on product research to come up with better and disruptive solutions

• Engage in technical discussions with senior engineers to define logical and conceptual data flows

• Strategic Mindset:
  Seek to understand WEX’s corporate strategy, the competitive environment and market trends and how our products can create value

• Customer Obsessed:
  Deeply understand our customers’ needs through customer empathy, data and prioritize work

• Results Focused:
  Leverage data to understand how the product is performing and prioritize work

• Insights Driven:
  Use qualitative and quantitative insights to drive decisions, define experiments and prioritize roadmap

• Trusted Partner:
  Appreciate and comprehend different points of view and share information clearly and transparently with strong collaboration while knowing when to escape

• Relevant Expertise:
  Brings a deep understanding of the market, applied technologies and domain expertise, with a curiosity and learning mindset

• 7-10 years of Data Architecture experience delivering world class software or capabilities

• Undergraduate degree required, advanced degree is a plus

• Proven ability to work closely with engineering teams and other product teams to prioritize and deliver features

• Experience of identifying customer problems, roadmap prioritization, writing detailed…