Lead Analytics Engineer, Travelex
Office located in Euston, London
Foreign exchange platform
Job no longer available
Foreign exchange platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
Office located in Euston, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify its customers’ access to international money, however and whenever.
Role
Who you are
- At least 3 years’ experience in a Data Science, Data Engineering or Analytics Engineering role with a strong data background
- Accomplished with DBT, having had a minimum of 2 years’ hands-on experience
- A strong background in SQL, accompanied with proficiency in Python
- A minimum of 2 years’ hands-on experience in building real-time or batch-based data pipelines in AWS, utilising services such as Kinesis, Glue, S3, Lambda, Redshift and Athena
- Ideally have worked with Apache Airflow in scheduling and monitoring workflows
- At least 1 – 2 years’ experience with data visualisation tools, ideally AWS Quicksight or Power BI
- Worked as a team lead on at least 2 data related projects in the cloud, preferably with AWS
- Self-aware, open-minded with a high degree of personal and professional integrity
- Obsessed and passionate by data and insight to inform hypotheses
- Engaging and motivating team player who fosters an enjoyable working environment
- A degree in a computer science or a related field, such as software development, data science, business and engineering
- DBT
- Proficiency in Python and using query languages such as SQL
- Data Modelling
- Experience in building data pipelines in AWS, utilising services such as Kinesis, Glue, S3, Lambda, Redshift and Athena
- Data visualisation tools, ideally AWS Quicksight or Power BI
- Apache Airflow
- Able to explain complex issues in simple terms
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Coaching/mentoring others to help them reach their potential
- Database interrogation and analysis tools
- Great communication and inter-personal skills
- ELT
- Possess data analysis skills allowing you to create effective, accurate and concise models that communicate the information and meaning of a dataset
- Knowledge of common programming languages allowing you to create systems and programs that produce data models
- Able to develop and test software programs and coding systems that automate the creation of data models to help facilitate user self-service data analysis
- Data-oriented personality
What the job involves
- Help drive Travelex to strategically identify and utilize the information across the large amounts of data over our international business to help the business leaders make informed smart decisions to deliver targeted products to our customer base
- The primary focus will be supporting and mentoring the team in helping to build out the capabilities of a Travelex’s new Data Platform in AWS, as well as increasing communication and understanding between data information teams and all stakeholders in the business
- Make sure that satisfying the use cases, data is ingested, transformed, scheduled, and ready to be used for self-serve analytics by the end users, and formal reports or extracts to our business partners and appropriate authorities
- You will work on multiple projects/use cases and cover all aspects of the Data Analytics Lifecycle
- Working with data providers and data engineers to obtain relevant data in a suitable format
- Data cleansing and enrichment
- Data analysis
- Visualisation of data using appropriate technologies such as AWS Quicksight and PowerBI
- Liaising with stakeholders to understand business needs
- Providing clean, reliable transformed data ready for analysis
- Modelling data in DBT in a way that empowers end users to answer their own questions
- Maintaining complex DBT code and templating
- Helping to analyse any Redshift performance issues
- Maintaining data documentation and definitions
- Applying software engineering best practices to analytics code (e.g., version control, testing, continuous integration)
- Training/coaching/developing team colleagues to improve their Data engineering skills
- Training/coaching business users on how to use data visualisation tools
- Writing ad-hoc SQL to analyse data and understand issues
- Communicating results and collaborating with other members of the team
- Highlighting when data quality is compromised, a pipeline is down, and most importantly, to understand what the business needs
- Working with other data resources to help optimise data pipelines and troubleshoot any data related issues that are raised with the team
- Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
- Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
- Enriching datasets by incorporating key business logic to enhance reporting capabilities
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's many strategic partnerships and developments have made it a powerhouse in the sector.
For example, with Nium it launched “Travelex International Money Transfer”, connecting users in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore with over 50 markets across the world. And its partnership with Kayak helps customers plan trips within its overhauled Money Card app.
Travelex has been developing 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. It also launched "Travelex Plus", a loyalty programme which has had over 150,000 members sign up in less than a year.
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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
Philip Bowcock
(CEO)Chair at Victoria Plumbing. Experience as CEO at CountryWide and William HIll.
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