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# Lead Data Analyst

- **Company:** Wise
- **Location:** UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Visualization, Machine Learning, Power BI, Standard Sql, Tableau (Software), Restful APIs, Looker Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/lead-analyst-ic3-data-platform-wise-10617742

## About the Role

* 6+ years of commercial experience in a product-led environment
 * Proficient in SQL and familiar with data visualization tools such as Looker, Superset, PowerBI, or Tableau
 * Experience in automation and building data pipelines and working with tools like DBT and Airflow for ETL processes.
 * Skilled in using REST APIs to develop and manage data integrations

Soft Skills:

 * Critical thinking: You're comfortable working through an open-ended question, challenging assumptions and deciding what evidence would help answer it.
 * Influence: You can explain complex findings clearly and build trust with people who bring different technical and business perspectives.
 * Curiosity and ownership: You want to understand how things work, follow a problem through and take responsibility for making your analysis useful.

## Description

We're looking for a Lead Data Analyst to help shape how Wise invests in and improves its data platforms. You'll work across our Data Platform, covering the infrastructure that moves and stores our data through to analytics, machine learning and AI.

There's scope here to establish how we measure the value of these platforms and use that understanding to influence what we build next. Working closely with engineering and product leads, you'll help us understand where investment is paying off and where a different approach would make a bigger difference.

This is a hands-on role. You'll build the datasets and models behind your recommendations, taking ownership of analytical work from the initial question through to the decisions it supports. We want someone who enjoys understanding how systems work and can connect that technical detail to what matters for the people using them.

How you'll contribute:

 * Work with our teams to identify the questions that matter, agree how to measure success and help prioritise investment.
 * Lead analytical projects, choosing an approach that fits the problem and carrying the work through to recommendations teams can use.
 * Build and maintain the data pipelines and models that make your analysis reliable and repeatable.
 * Bring an analytical perspective to engineering and product discussions, helping colleagues understand the evidence and the trade-offs behind a decision.
 * Share your methods and knowledge so other analysts and engineers can build on your work.