Sr Data Analytics Engineer- FinCrime

About Zepz

Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its innovative digital solutions are designed to break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates across a broad global footprint, connecting the global north and south and enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Come Join Us!

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Our Commitments:

1. Velocity - We are fast
2. Outcomes - We work for our customers
3. Integrity - We do the right thing

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Analytics Engineer to help us optimize our business strategy using the latest data techniques. This role is key to setting the roadmap for a highly efficient and scalable data function that will grow with the ambitious plans for the business.

Reporting to Product, you will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and the wider organization. You will build and maintain new data models, optimize existing ones, and work with a wide variety of technologies and datasets to drive real insight and recommendations. You'll be a driving force in identifying trends, quantifying opportunities, and setting the requirements to develop data-driven solutions that have a direct impact on the business. 

Our current Data Platform tech stack includes:

Data Lakehouse: Databricks

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, Lambda), Kubernetes
• Data Processing: Python is our primary language
• Orchestration & Transformation: dbt, Fivetran, and Airflow
• Visualization: Mode and similar BI tools
• Data monitoring and alerting: Metaplane

What You'Ll Do

• Data Modeling & Pipelines: Build and maintain scalable and reliable data models to expose high-quality data for analysis and reporting. Where needed, deliver dashboards to drive more self service on data among teams.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with analysts and business stakeholders to understand commercial requirements, translating them into technical solutions that enable reliable self-serve data for decision-making.
• Strategic Analysis: Work in a collaborative, cross-functional way to identify and quantify opportunities, enabling data-driven business decisions and identifying opportunities for improvement through analysis, A/B testing, and tracking, with a strong emphasis on extracting actionable, in-depth business insights.
• Data Governance & Quality: Ensure all data and output is of high quality — tested, automated, scalable, and well-documented. You will develop standards and best practices for data consumption and educate data consumers.
• Champion Data Culture: Champion the use of data to optimize business performance and bring fresh analytical ideas to the table.
• Communication & Presentation: Present results and complex concepts back to the business in a structured, data-driven manner, simplifying them for non-technical audiences.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to reduce complexity and increase efficiency across our data models and data warehouse infrastructure.
• Data Cleansing & Transformation: Develop and implement robust data cleansing, validation, and transformation processes to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data across all sources.
• Insight Storytelling: Translate complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives and visualizations for both technical and non-technical audiences, influencing strategic decision-making.

What We’re Looking For From You

• You are highly proficient with daily use of SQL and have hands-on experience in a modern cloud data warehouse/ lakehouse environment (e.g., Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake).
• You’re comfortable automating processes and developing production-standard Python scripts to extract data, perform analysis, and build pipelines.
• You have the ability to work confidently with the tools of modern software engineering, such as the command line, version control (Git), testing, and performing code reviews.
• You have a problem-solving approach that gets to the underlying business questions, using a variety of data sources and information to find the answer.
• You see yourself as a strategic partner who wants to understand the business problem and can clearly communicate the commercial impact of your technical solutions.
• You are an advocate for data-driven decision-making who strives to improve processes, establish best practices, and define standards.
• You are passionate about learning, able to quickly adopt new business concepts and technologies, and are an independent, curious person who likes to take initiative.
• You have an open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity. Our team (and customers) come from all over the world.

Bonus Points

• You have familiarity with dbt to design and implement data models.
• Experience with data orchestration tools 
• AML Transaction Monitoring definition, calibration, testing and documentation. Experience with regulatory testing regimes such as DFS rule 504 a plus.
• Customer risk rating definition, calibration, testing and documentation.

What you’ll get from us 

Please Note That The Benefits Below Will Apply To Permanent Roles.

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance! 
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.              
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future. 
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible. 

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!  

Why Choose Zepz?

• Our team of over 800 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose -  to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready To Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive. 

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.