Lead Data Engineer

Lead Data Engineer

European Remote

Up to $7,500 per month

Typical hours are Monday-Friday working GMT/BST with potential on-call support required

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our Data Platform team, responsible for storage and processing most of our data.

What you’ll be working on:

• A mix of hands-on and hands-off responsibilities, both owning and implementing challenging projects as well as a technical owner

• Managing technical backlog

• Converting technology goals and stakeholder requests into technical requirements, breaking down work for more junior members of the team into clear instructions

• Helping shape the technical direction of the team

• Analysing data and conducting investigations to support proposals for changes

• Line manage team members, creating goals and supporting them in their growth journey

About the Data Platform team:

• You will join a team of five Data Engineers, varying in seniority. You will be responsible for the line management of some of them, potentially taking on more as you get more familiar with the company

• We have four more technical delivery teams, and as the data platform is the centre of all data flows, you will regularly interact with other team leads and product owners

• You will also have a lot of interaction with our fantastic Data Analysts and Technical Business Analysts

You should apply if you have:

• 1+ years experience leading Data Engineering teams, including seeing projects through to completion, stakeholder management and conflict resolution

• 5+ years of data engineering, analytics or machine learning experience

• Advanced skills in Python and SQL

• Experience with Airflow, Prefect or other task orchestration tools

• Familiarity with modern data stack – you know the current trends and what tools to use for the job

• A proactive approach, with the ability to set and exemplify high standards

• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change quickly

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively

These skills will help, but aren’t essential:

• Prior experience working for a data product company

• Experience building or maintaining third party or in-house data quality and cataloguing solutions

• Experience with documentation of system architecture

• Pandas, Jupyter, Plotly

• DBT, Kafka

• BI tools such as Tableau, Metabase and Superset

Tech Stack:

• Airflow

• Clickhouse

• DBT

• Python

• MongoDB

• PostgreSQL

• MariaDB

• Kafka

• k8s

About us:

FXC Intelligence is a leading provider of cross-border payments data and intelligence, providing some of the world's biggest companies, central banks and non-governmental organisations with the strategic insights, expertise and awareness to effectively compete in their chosen markets. By joining us, you will be diving into a world of data-driven exploration and innovation, revolutionising financial insights through cutting-edge technologies, machine learning and predictive analytics.

Your contributions will shape the future of cross-border finance, helping clients to uncover better paths to growth and profitability, as well as being a trusted reference and source for many of the leading international publications.

We are proud to produce industry-changing data and intelligence, aided by our company values of being customer-focused, taking ownership, knowledge, communication and leadership.

What’s in it for you?

• Up to $7,500 per month

• In our last engagement survey, our highest-scoring result was that 95% of employees felt that "People from all backgrounds are being treated fairly”

We’re an innovative company that strives to look after its team and we take pride in providing a positive company culture. Have a look at our careers page to see for yourself what it’s like to work with us: https://careers.fxcintel.com/

Also, why not take a look at our employee engagement blog to see how our colleagues feel about working at FXC Intelligence: https://careers.fxcintel.com/blog/posts/60820-what-do-our-employees-think-of-fxc-intelligence

At FXC Intelligence, we believe in embracing diversity in all forms and fostering an inclusive environment. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.