Lead Analytics Engineer

• Join the Analytics Experience team at Wise in London, making it easy for over 130 Analysts and 2,500+ weekly active BI tool users to get insights from data quickly. • Own the data infrastructure roadmap for your assigned tribe, ensuring strategic alignment and efficient execution. • Mentor analysts directly and establish best practices around infrastructure, monitoring, testing, and data modelling. • Become the go-to expert for tooling like dbt and AI applications, leading adoption and rollout across the organisation. • London-based, hybrid with flexible working.

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

• Experience with dbt for data modelling and transformation. • Background leading tooling adoption or rollout programmes across a data organisation. • Familiarity with AI applications in analytics or data engineering contexts.

• Work closely with Analysts within one of Wise's squads, spending significant time mentoring them directly. • Take ownership of defining and driving the data infrastructure roadmap for your assigned tribe. • Build and maintain core datasets, ensuring data quality and accessibility. • Lead adoption and rollout of new tooling, including dbt and AI applications, across the organisation. • Strategically assess and implement data modelling best practices within your squad.

We have been Wise customers for years and have always had a great experience. We love their transparent approach in everything they do, from showing the correct exchange rates to disclosing all their fees, and even being honest about how they work. Founded in 2010 in London, Wise is now a publicly traded company operating in over 160 countries, generating 1.2+ billion pounds in revenue (2025) and is highly profitable. What we especially love at Wise is their work from anywhere policy after 6 months: Basically you can remotely work from (almost) anywhere in the world for up to 90 days a year. As they are solving a massive problem and are strongly mission-driven, we are sure that any individual passionate about working on complex, impactful problems in sending money globally efficiently, while continuing to work on the much-loved Wise solutions, will love working there.

• Base salary of £85,000–£125,000 gross per year, based on experience and interview outcomes. • Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). • Flexible working — trusted to work from home, attend school plays, or handle life admin as needed. • Paid annual holiday, sick days, parental leave, and other leave opportunities. • 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise, on top of annual leave.

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to make moving and managing money across borders as easy, fast, and cheap as possible. With customers sending money internationally, spending abroad, and making cross-border payments, Wise is building an entirely new network for the world's money — for everyone, everywhere.