About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

Senior Data Engineer

Hiring Location: Singapore

What youll do

Part 1. Data Modeling

• Design and implement robust and scalable data models that support business intelligence machine learning and operational needs.

• Possess a deep understanding of data schemas and be able to select appropriate schema designs (e.g. star schema snowflake normalized vs denormalized) based on use cases.

• Collaborate closely with business teams to translate their data needs into clean structured and well-documented models.

• Understand and promote the concept of SSOT (Single Source of Truth) throughout the data layers and pipelines.

• Maintain data consistency traceability and quality across multiple data sources and domains.

Part 2. ETL and Data Pipeline Management

• Experience building and maintaining both batch and streaming ETL pipelines with a strong understanding of end-to-end data workflow from data ingestion to transformation and delivery.

• Able to work closely with Data Platform Engineers (DPEs) and Product Managers (PMs) to quickly identify root causes of data issues and provide efficient scalable solutions.

• Bonus if youve worked with data across distributed or multi-datacenter systems including solving challenges related to data migration duplication and consistency.

Part 3. Data Governance

• Participate in and contribute to data governance strategies policies and standards.

• Be familiar with any of the six key pillars of traditional data governance (e.g. data quality data stewardship metadata management master data management data privacy/security data lifecycle).

Part 4. Data AI

• We hope you have a basic understanding of AI and enjoy thinking about how data engineering and AI can work together in practical and creative ways.

These four areas are the main focuses of the DE team. Ideally you should be strong in at least one of them especially data modeling or data ETL. If you also have experience or skills in the other areas that would be a big plus.

Who you are

Were looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science Information Systems Finance Mathematics or a related field.

• Minimum 7 years of proven experience designing and implementing ETL pipelines with a strong understanding of the strategies rules and processes involved in building scalable and reliable data pipelines.

• Experience with streaming data pipelines or real-time data processing technologies such as Apache Kafka or Apache Flink.

• Proficiency in SQL database management systems (e.g. MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle) and data warehousing solutions.

• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and modern data infrastructure tools including Databricks and Airflow.

• Knowledge of data governance practices and regulatory requirements within the financial industry.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing high-quality work.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team-oriented environment.

• Outstanding verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with financial industries payment systems or fintech platforms.

• Knowledge of data governance practices and regulatory requirements in the financial industry.

• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python R) for data analysis and automation.

• Certification in data management or related technologies

At Airwallex you can make an impact in a rapidly growing global fintech. We want you to share in our success which is why youll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team-building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.

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To protect you from recruitment scams please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport) or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @ email address. Please apply only through or our official LinkedIn page.

Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition regardless of any other provision to the contrary.

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

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