Lead Analytics Engineer

Salary: £66,000 - 106,000 per year

Requirements:

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
• Proven experience in building robust analytics pipelines and designing effective data models
• Hands-on experience using an orchestration tool like Airflow
• Strong project management and communication skills, with a track record of driving initiatives
• Excellent storytelling ability with data, translating complex insights into clear, actionable narratives
• Demonstrated ability to build practical solutions using Python
• Ability to build strong empathy for stakeholders and internal customers, proactively identifying and solving their problems
• Experience driving best practices for Business Intelligence tools like Looker or Superset

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Analysts within one of our squads and mentor them on best practices around infrastructure, monitoring, testing, and data modelling
• Take ownership of defining and driving the data infrastructure roadmap for your assigned tribe
• Build and maintain core datasets, ensuring data quality and accessibility
• Act as the go-to expert for new tooling like dbt and AI applications, leading adoption and rollout across the organization
• Assess and implement data modelling best practices to improve our data capabilities

Technologies:

• AI
• Airflow
• Business Intelligence
• Looker
• Network
• Python
• SQL
• dbt

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We are Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make money move and be managed across borders with min fees, max ease, and full speed. We are building an entirely new network for the worlds money, helping people and businesses send money internationally, spend abroad, and make and receive payments more easily and at lower cost. This Lead Analytics Engineer role is based in London and sits within our Analytics Experience team. We offer a competitive base salary of 85-125k gross per year, Restricted Stock Units, best-in-class benefits, flexible working, paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave, and a six-week paid sabbatical after four years. We are proud of our diverse, equitable, and inclusive international team and the supportive culture weve built for Wisers.

last updated 34 week of 2026