Lead Data Engineer

Notabene; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Notabene is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to shape global crypto transaction settlements. The role involves building ETL pipelines, ensuring data governance, and fostering a data-driven culture. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in data engineering, strong SQL and Python skills, and experience with AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years working in data engineering.
• Proven experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines.
• Strong experience with dbt core/cloud.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable ETL pipelines.
• Gather data requirements and set up dashboards.
• Promote a data-driven culture and train power-users.

Skills

Data governance

Problem-solving

Communication

Attention to detail

Business intelligence

Tools

dbt

AWS

SQL

Python

Airbyte

Redshift

DuckDB

Superset

Job description

About Notabene

Notabene is on a mission to make crypto a part of the everyday economy. Leading crypto organizations use our tools to reduce transaction risk and make crypto transfers safe. Working across three continents in eight countries, the Notabene team serves our fantastic community of 100+ customers, including financial institutions, fintechs, exchanges, and more. Our co-founders spearheaded foundational Self Sovereign Identity protocols and use-cases. This technology is key to the internals of our cutting edge tech stack.

We’re proud to have the support of leading investors, including Y Combinator, Jump Capital, Castle Island, Green Visor Capital, and more.

We’re at an exhilarating moment in our journey, as regulation technologies (reg-techs) are fast becoming recognized as a vital enabler of the crypto ecosystem. Notabene is growing fast—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape the future rails of the crypto industry!

About The Role

As a Lead Data Engineer at Notabene, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how crypto transactions are settled globally. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders across all levels of the business, turning their BI requirements into accessible, accurate, real-time reporting. You will maintain and continuously improve Notabene’s org-wide data management and analytics.

In this role, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining our data pipelines, scaling our data warehouse architecture, and ensuring data insights are optimized and scalable across the organization.

You’ll also be instrumental in driving forward a data-driven culture at Notabene and training / upskilling power-users across the organization. You’ll be working closely with key stakeholders across the business to understand their BI / reporting needs and will enable providing insights to inform strategic decisions both at the Board / Executive level and at the business unit level.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using technologies like dbt, Airbyte, Cube, DuckDB, Redshift, and Superset
• Work closely with stakeholders across the company to gather data requirements and setup dashboards
• Promote a data driven culture at Notabene and train, upskill power-users across the organization
• Ensure data governance and security practices are in place, especially around high-security PII data
• Monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot data infrastructure and pipelines to ensure performance and scalability

Must Haves

• 8+ years working in data engineering
• Proven experience in building and maintaining ETL pipelines and data infrastructure
• Strong experience working with dbt core/cloud
• Business savvy and capable of interfacing with finance, revenue and ops leaders to build our business intelligence
• Expertise in data governance, best practices, and data security, especially related to PII
• Proficiency in SQL and Python and with experience working in AWS
• Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a global, remote-first company
• Proficient self-starter and comfortable working with ambiguity
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments

If you strongly believe this role is for you, please apply. Notabene considers a broad array of candidates, including those without blockchain experience. Whether you’re returning to work after a gap in employment, or taking the next step in your career path, we will be glad to have you on our radar.

Notabene is proud to be an equal employment workplace and an affirmative action employer. By valuing inclusion and diversity of all forms, we strictly prohibit and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.