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# Lead Analytics Engineer

- **Company:** Wise
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £74,602.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Data Analysis, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), SQL Databases, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Core Data, Data Management, Looker Analytics
- **Published:** October 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5930867278

## About the Role

What do I need to bring to the role?

 * Technical Expertise: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python is a must.
 * Data Pipelining & Modelling: Proven experience in building robust analytics pipelines and designing effective data models.
 * Orchestration Mastery: Hands-on experience using an orchestration tool like Airflow.
 * Project Leadership: Strong capabilities in project management and communication, with a track record of driving initiatives.
 * Impactful Storytelling: Excellent storytelling ability with data, translating complex insights into clear, actionable narratives.
 * Python Development: Demonstrated ability to build practical solutions using Python.
 * Stakeholder Empathy: Youre able to build strong empathy for your stakeholders and internal customers, proactively identifying and solving their problems.
 * BI Tooling: A driver of best practices regarding Business Intelligence Tools like Looker or Superset.

## Description

Were looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our Analytics Experience team in London.

Wise has already pioneered new ways for people to transfer money across borders and currencies. Our customers can also manage their hard-earned money with the worlds first platform to offer true multi-currency banking. Your mission is to help us build better products, faster by making it easy for Wisers to get insights from data.

At Wise, we have over 130 Analysts and more than 2,500 weekly active users of our Business Intelligence Tools. As a Lead Analytics Engineer, youll be crucial in ensuring its easy to find the right data quickly.

Heres how youll be contributing to the Analytics Engineering team:

 * Lead and Mentor: You will work closely with Analysts within one of Wises squads, spending significant time mentoring them directly to establish best practices around infrastructure, monitoring, testing, and data modelling.
 * Strategic Roadmap: You will take ownership of defining and driving the data infrastructure roadmap for your assigned tribe, ensuring strategic alignment and efficient execution.
 * Core Data Sets: You will play a key role in building and maintaining core datasets, ensuring data quality and accessibility.
 * Tooling Evangelist: Become the go-to expert for new tooling like dbt & AI applications, leading its adoption and successful rollout across the organization.
 * Best Practices Driver: Strategically assess and implement data modelling best practices within your squad, elevating our data capabilities.