Group Compliance Monitoring & Data Senior Manager

Location: Hyderabad
Department: Data Science

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.

Purpose

Establish and own the analytics and technical reporting capability within Core Compliance. This senior individual contributor combines analytics engineering depth with the judgement to set direction, translate complex Compliance processes into dependable data products, and drive delivery across organisational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical foundations for Core Compliance analytics
• Design and establish the Core Compliance repository and analytics delivery setup, working with Engineering and analytics partners on the use of dbt, Airflow, Snowflake and Lightdash within the existing Wise environment.
• Make and document design decisions for models, transformations, orchestration and reporting: source selection, data grain, keys, historical changes, refresh dependencies and recovery behaviour.
• Establish GitHub development and review practices, automated checks, release procedures, access arrangements and documentation aligned with wider standards.
• Deliver and operate models pipelines and reporting
• Write SQL and dbt models, implement workflow orchestration in Airflow, and build reporting in Lightdash on Snowflake for systems and tools within the Core Compliance remit.
• Take work through discovery, design, implementation, validation, release and ongoing improvement.
• Exercise technical judgement on when to reuse an existing capability, extend a local model or coordinate an upstream change.
• Develop trusted metrics and actionable analysis
• Create ad hoc analysis, reports, dashboards and metrics across CCSDE and CMT, connecting the output to the monitoring, oversight or operational decision it needs to support.
• Translate process concepts into explicit metric definitions and data models.
• Validate analytical results against source records, explain material limitations and ensure that colleagues can understand and use the outputs with confidence.
• Set priorities and lead delivery across teams
• Identify the most valuable gaps in Core Compliance's monitoring and reporting capability and develop a prioritised delivery roadmap with the relevant leads.
• Act as the principal Core Compliance contact on analytics issues, bringing the technical understanding needed to establish scope, resolve unclear ownership and agree implementation approaches with partner teams.
• Apply AI and agentic workflows with technical judgement
• Use approved AI tools and agent harnesses in analytics and development workflows.
• Develop useful GitHub-based working practices and agentic workflows that improve delivery speed and consistency.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced SQL and strong data-modelling skills, with evidence of personally delivering reliable analytical models, pipelines and reporting used in operational decisions.
• Substantial hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent transformation frameworks, orchestration such as Airflow, and a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake.
• Experience establishing or materially improving an analytics repository and delivery process.
• Technical depth in data quality, troubleshooting and performance.
• A track record of taking ambiguous business problems through to implementation, setting priorities and influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical judgement: defining meaningful metrics, validating evidence and communicating findings and limitations clearly.
• Applied knowledge of AI-assisted analytics, agent harnesses and agentic development workflows.