Senior Data Engineer Scalable

About the role

Were looking for a seasoned senior Data Engineer with a strong software engineering background to join our Scalable Growth team within the Global Product Tribe.

In this role youll report directly to the Scalable Growth Engineering Lead while embedding day-to-day with the Marketing Platform team. You will serve as the technical authority on data architecture bridging the gap between platform engineering and analytics engineering. Youll bring maturity resilience and scalability to our data infrastructure building and shaping systems that handle high-volume streaming and batch data to fuel our global marketing engine.

If you thrive in an environment where you can scope complex problem spaces mentor engineers in data best practices and directly impact how Wise attracts millions of customers globally this is the role for you.

How we work

Scalable Growth is dedicated to building enabling technology that helps Wise acquire customers at the lowest possible cost.

Within this space the Marketing Platform team owns the data pipelines internal tools and integrations with third-party vendors (e.g. Meta Google) that power our acquisition channels. As our dedicated data lead youll work cross-functionally with engineers product managers digital analytics leads and marketing stakeholders (Paid Organic CRM) to transform our marketing data infrastructure into a true platform product.

What will you be working on

• Drive Data Architecture & Resilience: Audit map out and elevate our current data pipelines and streaming architectures. Establish best practices for monitoring reliability and scale across our data ecosystem (using Python dbt Airflow Kafka and Trino/Iceberg).

• Build the Unified Customer View: Productionize PoCs into scalable Airflow/dbt data workflows to lay the groundwork for our Customer Data Platform (CDP) datasets.

• Bridge Engineering & Analytics: Partner with analytics leads to define clear boundaries and standards for data ingestion cleansing and transformation bringing a strong analytics engineering mindset (specifically via dbt) to raw data landing.

• Own Mar Tech Infrastructure: Work alongside Engineering Leads to bring technology ownership of Mar Tech systems (e.g. Braze High Touch reverse ETL) in-house building end-to-end solutions rather than isolated data plumbing.

• Technical Scoping & Discovery: Take ownership of broad ambiguous problem spaces. Uncover hidden challenges propose robust architectural designs and execute your own roadmap.

• Coach & Mentor: Elevate the data capabilities of software engineers in the squad through code reviews architectural guidance and hands-on mentoring.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

What do you need

We are fully aware that it is uncommon for a candidate to have all skills required and we fully support everyone in learning new skills with us. So if you have some of those listed below and are eager to learn more we do want to hear from you!

• Python & Big Data Expertise: Advanced proficiency in Python and proven experience architecting deploying and maintaining Big Data and streaming/batch pipelines (e.g. Kafka Streams Event Streaming Trino Iceberg).

• dbt & Airflow Proficiency: Hands-on experience using dbt for scalable data transformations and Airflow for workflow orchestration.

• Data Architecture Mastery: A strong background in designing scalable fault-tolerant data architectures implementing data quality frameworks and establishing production best practices.

• Product & Discovery Mindset: Ability to take a vague problem statement independently uncover the requirements scope project milestones and drive solutions end-to-end.

• Cross-functional Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge tech marketing and analytics turning marketing needs into crisp engineering roadmaps.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Mar Tech tooling or reverse ETL setups (e.g. High Touch Braze vendor API integrations).

• Familiarity with modern AI/ML data integration practices.

• Background in fintech or fast-scaling tech platform environments.

Additional Information :

Additional Information

Interested Find out more:

• Wise Tech Stack

• Wise Engineering Blog

• Engineering career map

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