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Senior Engineering Team Lead - Analytics Platform

London, England, gbFull-time£135k–£175k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Data Lakehouse Platform team to build and maintain petabyte-scale data infrastructure, enabling ML/AI solutions and intelligent business decisions for Wise's global payment operations.

Role type

Senior Engineering Team Lead (Analytics Platform)

Builds

Petabyte-scale data lakehouse platform, ML/AI capabilities, and analytical services for internal teams.

Domain

Fintech / Data Engineering / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Distributed systems design, microservices architecture, cloud deployment (AWS), container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes), data warehousing, security principles, agile leadership, stakeholder management, vendor negotiation.

Preferred skills

Payment platforms knowledge, foreign exchange domain expertise, generative AI capabilities.

Technologies

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Data Warehousing, BI Tooling, Microservices.

Responsibilities

Guide sustainable growth of the analytics platform, lead other engineering leads and senior engineers, shape multiple teams across the platform, ensure high availability and security of cloud services, negotiate vendor contracts, mentor junior leaders and staff+ engineers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities