Head of Analytics Platform Engineering

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Wise is hiring a Senior Engineering Team Lead for Analytics Platform in a hybrid London role. You will guide the data lakehouse platform teams and own the architecture that processes petabyte-scale data for Wise products and services.

You’ll lead senior engineers, drive reliability, observability, and secure-by-default design across cloud-native microservices, delivering fast, safe decisions for product teams worldwide.

Qualifications

• Years of production experience with data platforms.
• Experience guiding multiple engineering teams and leaders.
• Strong communication with stakeholders and leadership.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and scalable systems.
• Proven focus on security, privacy, and compliance in design.
• Excellent problem-solving, mentoring, and coding discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the teams building and maintaining a platform enabling Wise to leverage petabyte-scale data.
• Guide sustainable growth of the analytics function and shape multiple teams.
• Ensure high availability, security, and operational excellence of the platform.
• Collaborate with product, security, and compliance teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Data platform

Cloud platforms

Security & privacy

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

GCP

Job description

Wise is hiring a Senior Engineering Team Lead for Analytics Platform in a hybrid London role. You will guide the data lakehouse platform teams and own the architecture that processes petabyte-scale data for Wise products and services.

You’ll lead senior engineers, drive reliability, observability, and secure-by-default design across cloud-native microservices, delivering fast, safe decisions for product teams worldwide.