Analytics Engineer, Payments

SumUp enables businesses to get paid easily, process orders quickly, sell online instantly and manage their money more efficiently. We create the tools businesses need to make their business and their customer experience thrive. We are the preferred partner of over 4 mln merchants in more than 35 markets across Europe, Latin and Northern America, Australia. 

 

The Payments Analytics/Data Engineer will be part of the team responsible for SumUp’s largest data domain: Payments. It spans several core engineering & product teams that have a common data product with a shared repository and decentralized data ownership model.

You will be responsible for further development and maintainance of the shared repository, including scope expansion, change management, and upholding dbt ownership principles. The role is at the crossroads of data engineering and analytics, involves dealing with an environment that is evolving and growing very fast due to changing infrastructure, new products, strategies, and organizational changes, while also being complex to manage, while managing stakeholders from several core teams. 

Some of the tools and technologies used in the team: AWS Cloud for all analytics back-end infrastructure, Airflow, dbt for data modeling and orchestration, Snowflake for data warehousing, Tableau for visualization, Python.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Data Capabilities

• Build complex Payment data models that effectively track the transaction lifecycle and deliver trusted data marts that are suitable for core business intelligence
• Ensure that all Payments data products follow dbt ownership principles
• Leverage data to drive business decisions and outcomes through rigorous analysis, data visualisation, and communication of insights

Leadership

• Champion the mindset of treating data as a product at SumUp within the Global Analytics chapter
• Partner with Core Analytics to develop and implement robust change management processes to ensure that KPIs meet business requirements
• Work across domains to ensure data interoperability and define how payments data can be integrated and used across dependent tribes
• Collaborate with backend engineers, data engineers and other technical stakeholders to ensure the infrastructure supporting their data products is reliable

YOU WILL BE GREAT FOR THIS ROLE IF

• You possess expert level skills with dbt Core (a minimum of 2 years experience)
• You possess strong SQL skills 
• You possess strong data modeling skills (DB/system design and maintenance)
• You have experience with git / version control
• Solid problem solving and analytical skills, ability to understand challenges and recommend appropriate solutions 
• You have experience with stakeholder management, managing priorities and communicating expectations 

NICE TO HAVES

• Experience/interest in Python 
• Experience with Tableau Online, Looker, or comparable visualization and BI tools
• Payments domain experience 

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN SUMUP 

• You’ll play a key role in a scale-up that in turn is part of a truly global team of 3000+ people from 60+ countries, spread across 4 continents.
• You'll have the opportunity to make an impact irrespective of your job description. You'll have the space to drive your career and take ownership of projects.
• You’ll receive 25 days paid leave, increasing with tenure, and paid vacation for certain occasions. You’d enjoy a paid 1 month Sabbatical vacation every 3 years. 
• You’ll receive an individual learning budget and can take 10 days paid educational leave to expand your skillset. You'll have access to hackathons.
• You'd enjoy other great benefits such as additional health and life insurance; funded therapy & coaching sessions with licensed psychotherapists; co-sponsored Multisport card; Child birth/adoption bonus; free shuttle buses from Joliot-Curie metro station; a long list of discounts; attractive referral programme; monthly budget for food vouchers and flexible benefits, and more. 

MORE ABOUT US 

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we create powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them run their businesses. With a founder’s mentality and a 'team-first’ attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can be successful doing what they love. 

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. SumUp does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion or religious belief, ethnic or national origin, nationality, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other basis protected by applicable laws or prohibited by company policy. SumUp also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind.

SumUp will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate.