Data Platform Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide visionary technical leadership and define a 1-3 year strategic roadmap for the Realtime Data Platform.
• Lead the modernization of the core data platform to introduce real-time analytical processing at petabyte scale.
• Partner with product teams to enable new data-driven features, including AI-powered applications and real-time dashboards.
• Scale and structure engineering teams by hiring new talent and mentoring managers and senior individual contributors.
• Cultivate strong relationships with product and engineering teams as a trusted technical advisor on Data and AI.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in data or software engineering.
• At least 3 years of experience in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience managing and scaling engineering teams of 10+ people.
• Deep understanding of distributed data processing technologies (e.g., Apache Spark, Databricks) and event streaming (e.g., Kafka).
• Solid knowledge of modern data storage and serving technologies such as CubeJS, ElasticSearch, or Clickhouse.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within the financial services domain.
• Hands-on design experience crafting data processing patterns for modern Lakehouse architectures.
• Ability to rapidly evaluate new technologies and conduct proof of concepts to drive architecture design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for diverse audiences.

About the Company

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 200,000 businesses worldwide—including Brex, Rippling, and Qantas—to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, and treasury at a global scale.