Data Engineering Manager, Travelex
Office located in Kingsway, London
Foreign exchange platform
Open for applications
Foreign exchange platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Kingsway, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify their customers’ access to international money, however and whenever.
Role
Who you are
- Strong leadership: An inspirational leader, engaging team player, and curious listener
- Excellent problem-solving skills with experience in complex data products
- Expertise in data engineering and cloud engineering, including data ingestion, transformation, and storage
- Significant hands-on experience with AWS and its data services
- Expert-level skills in SQL, Python, DBT, Airflow and Redshift
- Confidence in coding, scripting, configuring, versioning, debugging, testing, and deploying
- Ability to guide and mentor others in technical best practices
- A product mindset, focusing on user needs when designing deliverables
- Experience in designing technology solutions with complex end-to-end data flows
- Experience in implementing data governance, including data cataloging, data lineage tracking, and metadata management to ensure data accuracy, accessibility, and compliance
Desirable
- Experience with Databricks
- Understanding of how data platforms interact with marketing and customer engagement platforms
- Knowledge of service-oriented architecture, including exposing and consuming data via APIs, streams, and webhooks
- Good understanding of security and data protection best practices
- Familiarity with compliance and regulations, such as GDPR, PCI and FCA
- The flexibility to adjust your delivery approach to business needs, including mixing elements of Kanban, Scrum, Lean and our own custom practices
- The passion to stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in your field, exploring new tools and methodologies
- 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
- At Travelex we are developing modern data technology and data products
- Data is central to the way we define and sell our foreign currency exchange products
- Our relationship with our customers is deeply data-driven
- The data engineering manager (DEM) owns the design and delivery of all data flows to and from our data platform, underpinning crucial data products
- The DEM is responsible for a significant transformation Travelex is going through, with event-driven and transactional enhancements to our enterprise data architecture, alongside expansion of our data warehousing function to support a wide range of data integrations
- Work with the Director of Data Engineering and IT Leadership to enhance the company's data maturity
- Maintain strong business alignment by engaging with leaders across domains and geographies
- Ensure data engineering initiatives match evolving business priorities
- Promote a product mindset, balancing technical efficiency with clear business value
- Lead the Data Engineering team, providing supervision, coaching, and professional development
- Work with the Data Delivery Manager to improve team productivity and velocity
- Oversee planning sessions, standups, retros, and team meetings
- Define and deliver technical goals & OKRs in collaboration with the teams
- Own the architecture of the company's data platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security
- Drive modernisation by transitioning from legacy systems to a lean, scalable platform
- Act as a lead expert for technologies such as AWS, DBT, Airflow, and Databricks
- Establish best practices for data modelling, ingestion, storage, streaming, and APIs
- Ensure all technical decisions are well-justified, documented, and aligned with business needs
- Lead reviews and approvals for Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Visualization projects via data architecture review board
- Promote best practices in data governance, security, data protection, and risk management
- Oversee monitoring of live data products and lead response to data incidents
- Drive improvements in data quality, working with data owners and managers
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless system integration
- Advocate for reducing technical debt while balancing resource constraints
- Stay updated with industry trends and recommend relevant technologies
- Lead analysis, assessment, and design activities, influencing key decisions
- Foster collaboration with data analysts and data scientists to develop impactful data products
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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