Data Engineer, Travelex
Foreign exchange platform
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Foreign exchange platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify their customers’ access to international money, however and whenever.
Role
Who you are
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS services focused on data flow, pipelines, data transformation, storage and streaming
- Excellent data engineering skills, for example with SQL, Python, DBT and Airflow
- Good understanding of service-oriented architecture; experience of exposing and consuming data via APIs, streams and webhooks
- Experience designing scalable data models, warehouse/lakehouse architectures, and dimensional modelling for analytics
- Confidence in coding, scripting, configuring, versioning, debugging, testing and deploying
- Skilled in optimising queries, pipelines, and storage for cost and performance efficiency
- Good understanding of security best practices, and experience of implementing them
- Knowledge of data quality frameworks, cataloging, lineage, and governance tools
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- Experience setting up alerting, logging, and monitoring for data pipelines (e.g., using CloudWatch, Datadog)
- Comfortable collaborating with data scientists and analysts to productionise models or build reusable data assets
- A track record of automating manual processes and designing systems to scale with growing data volumes
- The ability to explain, brainstorm, present, simplify, clarify, prioritise, document, listen, negotiate and compromise
- The curiosity to understand the business, its requirements and culture
- Your own unique style or way of working, which will make our team diverse and original
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders across the business to design and deliver new components of our data landscape
- You’ll own your work end-to-end, from defining the approach, through coding, configuration and documentation, to go-live
- In doing so, you’ll have significant impact on how our business evolves and the freedom to shape solutions in your own way
- Develop code, scripts and configurations as part of the development of data pipelines, data services and data transformations
- Define data solutions, and lead all activities required when agreeing the best design (analysis, engagement, documentation)
- Take initiative to investigate whatever needs clarification during design or development
- Learn what’s required from your solutions and negotiate the requirements to achieve clarity and simplicity
- Learn about features, capabilities and settings of the technologies used to build the best solution
- Brainstorm your engineering approach continuously with colleagues and partners
- Recommend development priorities, explain pros and cons of different options, and reach agreement on the next steps if needed
- Recommend and implements steps to test and secure your data solutions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As well as providing people with cash to travel, Travelex is a key supplier of wholesale banknotes to global financial institutions, central banks, credit unions, travel agencies, hotels and casinos.
The company has made strategic partnerships to further its product capabilities, most recently in the APAC region. Together with Nium it has launched its “Travelex International Money Transfer”, connecting users in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore with over 50 markets across the world. Meanwhile, its partnership with Kayak helps customers plan trips within its overhauled Money Card app.
Travelex is focused on further investing in developing its products. This will involve solutions that support their B2B2C aspirations and working with retail distributions to give customers the opportunity to self-serve more at the airport or pre-trip. The company’s global network and an ever-expanding list of capabilities has Travelex well-positioned to remain a strong market leader.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Additional Benefits Vary by Location
- 22 Days Plus Bank Holidays Pro-Rata
- Employee Discount Platform with Everyday Rewards by Bravo at Hundreds of Shops & Online Stores
- Employee Assistance Program
- Season Ticket Loan/Ride to Work Scheme
- Life & Dental Insurance, Critical Illness Cover
Company HQ
Peterborough, UK
Leadership
Richard Wazacz
(CEO, not founder)Former CEO of BrickVect, and Founder of Octopus Wealth, and Octopus Labs. Became CEO of Travelex in 2022.
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