Wise
Financial Services
SrEngineeringTeamLead-Data
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“Sr Engineering Team Lead - Data at Wise. Skills: Data Engineering, Database Reliability, Platform Engineering, Service Reliability. Coach and mentor team. Grow high-performing team”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Solid background in development, Python or Java ecosystems, High coding standards, Thorough understanding of system design, Expertise in cloud services, Platform engineering skills, Knowledge of SQL, Knowledge of NoSQL database technologies, Understanding of high availability, Understanding of scalability, Understanding of security, Experience creating culture of operational excellence, Knowledge of leading service reliability engineering team
Nice to Have
Experience with configuration management, Experience with CI/CD, Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Experience with containers, Experience with container orchestration, Experience with job orchestration, Experience with workflow orchestration solutions, Customer empathy drives decisions, Knowledge of payment platforms, Knowledge of foreign exchange, Knowledge of highly complex systems
What You'll Do.
Coach and mentor team
Grow high-performing team
Bring value to solutions
Work on high-impact solutions
Support team with hands-on involvement
Provide senior engineering expertise
Build production systems
Affect database technologies strategy
Affect automation strategy
Affect scalability strategy
Affect reliability strategy
Guide engineering teams
Negotiate with vendors
Explain costs to business
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborating with other leads; Collaborating with engineers; Collaborating with product managers; Engaging with cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Presenting to organisation; Articulate complex concepts
Process & Methodology
Agile methodologies, Traditional methodologies
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). About the team: Database Reliability Engineering team! For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B. Yet behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies, routes, products and features, generating terabytes of data each day. Database Reliability Engineering is at the core and provides databases as service for the rest of the business, working with the Database Platform team to manage our vast estate of database technologies and solutions. As an Engineering Lead in the wider Platform tribe and Engineering organisation, you will have an opportunity to directly affect database technologies and automation strategy, scalability and reliability, building production systems that are ultimately making things better for all customers. What you will be working on? * You will be responsible for the well-being of the team, coaching, mentoring and growing a high-performing team in bringing value by working on high-impact solutions. * You will support the team with occasional hands-on involvement as a software engineer and systems operator, bringing senior engineering expertise into building solutions. * You’ll be collaborating with other leads, engineers, product managers in the wider organisation. * Exactly what you’ll be doing day to day will vary, as our team looks at the big picture challenges we see across all of analytics, engineering and business! What will you be working on? * Y
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