# Senior Data Engineer (Seattle)

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Seattle
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140K - $240K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## Compensation

The Senior Data Engineer position at Airwallex offers a salary range of $140K – $240K, along with equity and bonus opportunities.

## How you'll make impact

As a Senior Data Engineer at Airwallex, you will be part of the Strategic Data team, building data foundations that support business intelligence, machine learning, and operational decision-making. Your responsibilities will include:

- Designing and implementing robust, scalable data models that support business intelligence, machine learning, and operational needs.

- Selecting appropriate schema designs, including star schema, snowflake, normalized, and denormalized models, based on the use case.

- Partnering with business teams to translate data needs into clean, structured, and well-documented models, promoting a single source of truth across data layers and pipelines.

- Building and maintaining batch and streaming ETL pipelines across the full data workflow, from ingestion and transformation through delivery.

- Maintaining data consistency, traceability, and quality across multiple data sources and domains.

- Contributing to data governance strategies, policies, and standards across areas such as data quality, stewardship, metadata, master data, privacy, security, and lifecycle management.

- Working with Data Platform Engineers and Product Managers to identify root causes of data issues and deliver efficient, scalable solutions.

- Exploring practical ways for data engineering and AI to work together across products and operations.

## What we're looking for

### Essentials

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.

- Five or more years of experience designing and implementing ETL pipelines using tools such as Informatica, Talend, Apache NiFi, or similar data integration platforms.

- Strong experience with data modeling, data schemas, ETL, and end-to-end data workflows.

- Proficiency in SQL, database management systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle, and data warehousing solutions.

- Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, particularly BigQuery and Airflow.

- Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and commitment to producing high-quality work.

- Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively with globally distributed teams.

- Strength in at least one core area of data engineering, particularly data modeling or ETL, with the ability to contribute across the broader data engineering discipline.

### Preferred

- Experience in financial services, payments, or fintech.

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

- Experience with scripting languages such as Python or R for data analysis and automation.

- Experience working with distributed or multi-datacenter data systems, including data migration, duplication, and consistency challenges.

- Certification in data management or related technologies.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary and valuable equity within Airwallex.

- Collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen.

- Regular team-building events.

- Freedom to be creative.

- For US-based employees, eligibility to participate in medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, short-term and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and well-being benefits.

- 20 paid days of vacation and 12 paid days of company holidays in a calendar year for US-based employees.

## Skills

### Required
- ETL pipelines
- data modeling
- data schemas
- SQL
- database management systems
- data warehousing solutions
- Google Cloud Platform
- BigQuery
- Airflow

### Nice to have
- financial services
- payments
- fintech
- data governance practices
- regulatory requirements
- scripting languages
- distributed or multi-datacenter data systems

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