Lead Analytics Engineer

Job description

We're looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our Analytics Experience team in London. Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the world's first platform to offer true multi-currency banking. Your mission is to help us build better products, faster by making it easy for Wisers to get insights from data.

At Wise, we have over 130 Analysts and more than 2,500 weekly active users of our Business Intelligence Tools. As a Lead Analytics Engineer, you'll be crucial in ensuring it's easy to find the right data quickly. Here's how you'll be contributing to the Analytics Engineering team: Lead and Mentor : You will work closely with Analysts within one of Wise's squads, spending significant time mentoring them directly to establish best practices around infrastructure, monitoring, testing, and data modelling.

Strategic Roadmap

You will take ownership of defining and driving the data infrastructure roadmap for your assigned tribe, ensuring strategic alignment and efficient execution.

Core Data Sets

You will play a key role in building and maintaining core datasets, ensuring data quality and accessibility.

Tooling Evangelist

Become the go-to expert for new tooling like dbt & AI applications, leading its adoption and successful rollout across the organization.

Best Practices Driver

Strategically assess and implement data modelling best practices within your squad, elevating our data capabilities.

Qualifications

What do I need to bring to the role?

Technical Expertise

Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python is a must.

Data Pipelining & Modelling

Proven experience in building robust analytics pipelines and designing effective data models.

Orchestration Mastery

Hands-on experience using an orchestration tool like Airflow.

Project Leadership

Strong capabilities in project management and communication, with a track record of driving initiatives.

Impactful Storytelling

Excellent storytelling ability with data, translating complex insights into clear, actionable narratives.

Python Development

Demonstrated ability to build practical solutions using Python.

Stakeholder Empathy

You're able to build strong empathy for your stakeholders and internal customers, proactively identifying and solving their problems.

BI Tooling

A driver of best practices regarding Business Intelligence Tools like Looker or Superset. This is a Lead Analytics Engineer role. For more information on our Analytics Career Map and levelling structure, click here