Airwallex - Staff Data Platform Engineer

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in Data Platform or an equivalent combination of work and academic exposure in a quantitative field. • Proven experience leading company-wide initiatives across multiple teams or influencing tech roadmap planning. • Effective collaboration with diverse teams and stakeholders to drive tangible business outcomes. • Demonstrated ability to balance execution and velocity with in-depth research, statistical understanding, and scalable design. • Track record of mentoring and investing in the development of scientists, engineers, and peers. • Experience providing technical leadership on significant projects, covering ETL frameworks, metrics stores, infrastructure management, and data security. • Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining reliable multi-geographical data pipelines at scale. • Familiarity with workflow or orchestration frameworks such as Airflow, DBT, etc. • Hands-on design experience in crafting data processing patterns for a modern Lakehouse architecture. • Contribute to the design and development of standard framework modules, high-performance services, and client libraries for big data using tools like GCP, Databricks, BigQuery, DataProc, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, DataFlow, Google Cloud Storage, and Airflow. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for diverse audiences (leadership, users, company-wide). • Ability to rapidly evaluate various technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design. • Experience thriving in a complex environment. • At Airwallex, you can make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team-building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative. • Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters • To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. • Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary. • Equal opportunity • Equal opportunity