Data Engineering Manager

Airwallex (UK) Limited

Job Overview

Location

SG - Singapore

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead, coach, and grow a team of Data Engineers, setting a high bar for technical quality, execution, and ownership.
• Define the technical direction for your team across data modeling, pipeline architecture, data quality, observability, and lifecycle management.
• Partner with leaders across engineering, product, analytics, risk, and operations to prioritise the most important data problems and translate them into scalable solutions.
• Drive the design and delivery of reliable batch and near real-time data pipelines that support critical internal and product-facing use cases.
• Improve engineering standards across SQL, dbt, Spark, Airflow, and Databricks, including performance, maintainability, testing, documentation, and governance.
• Contribute to org-wide planning and cross-team execution, especially where Data Engineering interfaces with Data Platform, AI enablement, and broader Knowledge Platform priorities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in data engineering, with prior people management experience.
• Strong hands-on foundation in modern data engineering.
• Experience designing and operating scalable data pipelines and datasets used by multiple downstream stakeholders or systems.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects end to end, from problem definition and architecture through execution, rollout, and ongoing improvement.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work with a team of over 2,200 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.
• Access to cutting-edge technologies and tools.
• Opportunity to work on complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Skills & Technologies

Kafka

Apache Spark

Onsite

Degree Required

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About Airwallex (UK) Limited

Airwallex is a global financial technology company providing cross-border payment and banking infrastructure for businesses. It offers multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, card issuing, expense management, and embedded finance APIs. Founded in Melbourne in 2015, the company serves enterprises and SMEs across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, operating under licenses in multiple jurisdictions and processing billions in annualized transaction volume.

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