Senior Analytics Engineer, Fintech, Limassol, Cyprus

Senior Analytics Engineer

Payment Orchestration Platform Limassol Cyprus On-site (3 to 6 months remote runway before transition) EUR 5000 to 5500 gross/month

About the Client

A payment orchestration platform connecting 1000 payment methods and providers across 185 countries with AI-driven retry logic built to reduce payment failures and lift approval rates for clients in e-commerce travel gaming retail and SaaS. The data function is scaling to support the next phase of AI-driven product.

The Role

Reporting to the Head of Data this is a hands-on engineering role with two phases. First the infrastructure build: optimise the batch data warehouse establish Git version control and CI/CD and get the most out of a fully managed GCP stack to ready the data ecosystem for real-time AI modelling. Second the analytics layer: take ownership of the semantic reporting layer write production LookML build the data models and turn the infrastructure into dashboards and business intelligence that the wider business runs on.

Location and Relocation

The role is ultimately on-site at the Limassol headquarters. To support a smooth move and a strong mutual fit for anyone considering relocating to Cyprus the client offers the flexibility to start fully remotely for the first 3 to 6 months before transitioning on-site. Relocation support to Cyprus is provided.

Key Responsibilities

• Build scale and maintain the core data warehouse and pipelines on managed GCP services optimising ingestion from production databases and external syncs.
• Build low-latency data models that serve clean data to predictive models real-time routing engines and BI tools.
• Introduce CI/CD and Git unit testing and security controls supporting warehouse stability and PCI-DSS / SOC 2 compliance with an eye on cloud cost efficiency.
• Own the Looker semantic layer end to end writing clean scalable code and translating raw data into clear reporting.

Must-Have

• 5 years in Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or BI development with a strong engineering emphasis and a track record of building data warehouses and semantic layers from scratch.
• Expert SQL and Python.
• Hands-on GCP specifically BigQuery plus a transformation framework (Dataform or dbt).
• Git version control and modern data modelling.
• Fluent English.

Nice-to-Have

• Looker / LookML in production (a clear differentiator; treat as core if the client confirms it is non-negotiable).
• CI/CD frameworks for data unit testing discipline.
• Managed orchestration (Cloud Composer / Airflow).
• Payments or fintech domain exposure PCI-DSS / SOC 2 environments.
• Fluency with generative AI coding assistants applied with independent verification.

Package

Competitive base of EUR 5000 to 5500/month breakfast and lunch allowance birthday day off private medical ESOP relocation support modern Limassol office.