Data Engineer

• Compensation: GBP 105,000 – GBP 130,000 – yearly

Company 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.

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 prioritisation.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (compliance, risk, product, operations) to identify new data sources, define tagging strategies, design KPIs (e.g., average time to onboard, false‑positive rate), and deliver measurable business impact.

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