Senior Data Analytics Engineer - FinCrime

Job description

Join Zepz: Breaking Down Borders, Together

Our Meaningful Mission
At Zepz, we're all about breaking down barriers for our customers and our teammates. Our purpose is deeply personal, we provide a lifeline and deliver opportunities to cross-border communities that need it most through cutting edge finance and tech. Zepz is the power behind WorldRemit and Sendwave,  driven by the mission to celebrate the incredible impact migrants have, both at home and abroad. We're not just moving money; we're building a world that truly recognizes and supports global connections.

Who You'll Be Joining
We look for mission-driven builders who thrive in a fast-paced environment connected to a true purpose. We’re an always developing team of experts that enjoy problem solving and bring clarity to tough challenges. At Zepz, we are Relentless Learners, always seeking feedback, and  Responsible Owners, treating company resources like your own. We depend on Transparent Communicators who keep the team aligned through open, honest talk.

Our Core Commitments — What We Live By
Our vibrant and truly diverse culture is built on three core commitments, that guide how we work and interact:

• Integrity: We always do the right thing. It’s simple, but it’s the foundation of everything we build for our customers and each other.
• Outcomes: We work for our customers. Their success and prosperity are the results we focus on delivering.
• Velocity: We are fast! We maintain high energy levels and make smart decisions quickly, keeping us nimble and ahead of the curve.

Perks of Joining Our Team
We believe in empowering colleagues because we genuinely trust our team. Our culture is founded on this high trust, which naturally encourages the high ownership that drives us to meet our shared high expectations and deliver high performance. Our remote-first culture means you have the flexibility to work in your employing country wherever you feel the most focused and productive. This freedom comes with wonderful tailored, location-specific perks designed to support your whole life, not just your work. Think unlimited annual leave , great healthcare benefits, and employee discounts. We want you to thrive and focus entirely on making your biggest impact! In turn, we expect you to bring high ownership and commitment to your work. This is a place where we value trust and high performance, and we'll provide the environment and support needed for you to excel.

About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to help us optimize our business strategy using the latest data techniques. This role is key to setting the roadmap for a highly efficient and scalable data function that will grow with the ambitious plans for the business.

Reporting to Product, you will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and the wider organization. You will build and maintain new data models, optimize existing ones, and work with a wide variety of technologies and datasets to drive real insight and recommendations. You'll be a driving force in identifying trends, quantifying opportunities, and setting the requirements to develop data-driven solutions that have a direct impact on the business. 

Our current Data Platform tech stack includes:

• Data Lakehouse: Databricks
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Lambda), Kubernetes
• Data Processing: Python is our primary language
• Orchestration & Transformation: dbt, Fivetran, and Airflow
• Visualization: Mode and similar BI tools
• Data monitoring and alerting: Metaplane

What You'll Do

• Data Modeling & Pipelines: Build and maintain scalable and reliable data models to expose high-quality data for analysis and reporting. Where needed, deliver dashboards to drive more self service on data among teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with analysts and business stakeholders to understand commercial requirements, translating them into technical solutions that enable reliable self-serve data for decision-making.
• Strategic Analysis: Work in a collaborative, cross-functional way to identify and quantify opportunities, enabling data-driven business decisions and identifying opportunities for improvement through analysis, A/B testing, and tracking, with a strong emphasis on extracting actionable, in-depth business insights.
• Data Governance & Quality: Ensure all data and output is of high quality — tested, automated, scalable, and well-documented. You will develop standards and best practices for data consumption and educate data consumers.
• Champion Data Culture: Champion the use of data to optimize business performance and bring fresh analytical ideas to the table.
• Communication & Presentation: Present results and complex concepts back to the business in a structured, data-driven manner, simplifying them for non-technical audiences.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to reduce complexity and increase efficiency across our data models and data warehouse infrastructure.
• Data Cleansing & Transformation: Develop and implement robust data cleansing, validation, and transformation processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across all sources.
• Insight Storytelling: Translate complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives and visualizations for both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing strategic decision-making.

What We’re Looking For From You

• You are highly proficient with daily use of SQL and have hands-on experience in a modern cloud data warehouse/ lakehouse environment (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).
• You’re comfortable automating processes and developing production-standard Python scripts to extract data, perform analysis, and build pipelines.
• You have the ability to work confidently with the tools of modern software engineering, such as the command line, version control (Git), testing, and performing code reviews.
• You have a problem-solving approach that gets to the underlying business questions, using a variety of data sources and information to find the answer.
• You see yourself as a strategic partner who wants to understand the business problem and can clearly communicate the commercial impact of your technical solutions.
• You are an advocate for data-driven decision-making who strives to improve processes, establish best practices, and define standards.
• You are passionate about learning, able to quickly adopt new business concepts and technologies, and are an independent, curious person who likes to take initiative.
• You have an open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity. Our team (and customers) come from all over the world.

Bonus Points 

• You have familiarity with dbt to design and implement data models.
• Experience with data orchestration tools 
• AML Transaction Monitoring definition, calibration, testing and documentation. Experience with regulatory testing regimes such as DFS rule 504 a plus.
• Customer risk rating definition, calibration, testing and documentation.

If you want to join us in our journey to help break barriers in financial access and improve lives globally, there's no better place or time to join.

Our global team of 800+ people is spread across six continents. We aspire to hire the best mix of people from former Olympians to YouTube influencers and we speak over twenty languages. This incredible diversity isn't a bonus; it's the engine that lets us serve the world.

Ready to Apply? Let’s Go.