Wise

Finance / FinServ

DataEngineer

london, england, united kingdom FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“Data Engineer at Wise. Skills: Data engineering pipeline development, Analytics infrastructure roadmap definition, Data modelling, Data quality implementation. Own and build data infrastructure. Build analytics pipelines”

What You'll Achieve.

Enable safe growth; Improve reliability, speed, and trust in analytics; Enable informed decision-making around customer acceptance or decline, risk tiering, and remediation prioritization; Deliver measurable business impact

Industry & Context.

Finance / FinServ
Problems you'll solve

Detect, prevent and monitor financial crime

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience with data modelling, Experience with testing, Experience with monitoring, Experience with deployment, Experience with data-pipeline instrumentation, Experience with error-handling, Experience with data-quality

Nice to Have

Knowledge of dbt, Knowledge of Airflow, Knowledge of Snowflake, Knowledge of Python, Knowledge of Looker, Knowledge of Superset

What You'll Do.

Own and build data infrastructure

Build analytics pipelines

Build modelling frameworks

prevent and monitor financial crime

Lead data engineering pipeline related to onboarding / KYC / FinCrime

Define and own the analytics infrastructure roadmap

Build and maintain core datasets focused on KYC onboarding events

Drive implementation of best practices in data-pipeline instrumentation

Translate complex data into clear

actionable narratives

Identify new data sources

Define tagging strategies

Deliver measurable business impact

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner closely with product, compliance, analytics, and operations teams; Partner with cross-functional teams (compliance, risk, product, operations)

Communication Scope

Translate complex data into clear, actionable narratives for key stakeholders

Process & Methodology

Establish best practices around data modelling, testing, monitoring, and deployment, Define and own the analytics infrastructure roadmap

Full Job Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. More about [our mission](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). As a Data Engineer in our KYC & Onboarding area, you will own and build the data infrastructure, analytics pipelines and modelling frameworks that detect, prevent and monitor financial crime through customer onboarding. You'll partner closely with product, compliance, analytics, and operations teams to drive data-led insights and proactive controls that enable safe growth. Key Responsibilities * Lead data engineering pipeline related to the onboarding / KYC / FinCrime domain; establish best practices around data modelling, testing, monitoring, and deployment. * Define and own the analytics infrastructure roadmap for the Global KYC & Onboarding squad, from data source ingestion through to analytics delivery and dashboard creation. * Build and maintain core datasets focused on KYC onboarding events, customer risk scores, alert triggers, and case outcomes. * Evangelise and lead adoption of modern tooling (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Python, Looker/Superset) to improve reliability, speed, and trust in analytics. * Drive implementation of best practices in data-pipeline instrumentation, monitoring, error-handling, and data-quality in a high-stakes regulatory environment. * Together with the Analytics and Product team, translate complex data into clear, actionable narratives for key stakeholders – enabling informed decision-making around customer acceptance or decline, risk tiering, and remediation prioritization.

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