Data Platform Engineering Manager

Company Description

Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.

We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.

Job Description

At Checkout, we’re rethinking how we “do data”. To ensure our solutions are scalable and our data is reliable, we’re building a truly world class platform; a democratised streaming platform empowering data users across the business with easily accessible data in real-time.

We’re looking for a visionary Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead our Data Platform team; a pivotal position that will play a key role in driving this change and ensuring teams are reaping the benefits.

We take a 'Platform as a Product' approach which is currently focused on three areas: Events and Data Streaming, Data Lakes and Warehousing and GenAI use cases and the right candidate will be responsible for defining the strategy and driving the delivery of all three.

Key responsibilities:

• Define the Data and AI Platform Vision: Develop and communicate a clear vision for a multi-modal Data and AI platform aligned with the checkout’s strategic goals
  

• Data Product Strategy: Advocate for and define what constitutes a data product ensuring that teams understand how to create reusable, high-quality data assets
  

• Build & Lead a High-Performing Team: Be an inspirational leader and mentor for the diverse team of data and platform engineers
  

• Foster Innovation: Encourage the team to explore and adopt modern tools and techniques to consistently evolve the platform
  

• Platform as a Product: Champion this approach focusing on experience, end-to-end simplicity and usability
  

• Drive a Data-Driven Culture: Work closely with product, engineering, analytics, and operations teams to ensure that data products solve real business problems
  

• Training & Education: Lead initiatives to up-skill teams on how to work with the new platform, data tools, and streaming paradigms
  

• Evangelise Best Practices: Act as an internal advocate for event-driven design, data contracts, and product thinking applied to data
  

• Vendor and Third Party Management: Work with your third party partners to deliver exceptional service

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Expertise in both streaming and traditional ETL data architectures

• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS S3, Athena, EMR, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, ...) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Proficiency in Python

• Proven achievements with Platform Engineering tools and methodologies including CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code and self-service capabilities.

• Excellent leadership, team management and project management skills

• Excellent communication skills, with the faculty to translate technical concepts into business outcomes for non-technical stakeholders

• Capacity to work in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment with a commitment to professional development and continuous learning

Additional Information

Apply without meeting all requirements statement 

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. 

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/

Apply without meeting all requirements statement 

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. 

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/

Apply without meeting all requirements statement 

If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.

We believe in equal opportunities

We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use. 

Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is critical to our success.

When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your potential so you can do your best work. We’d love to hear how you think you could make a difference here with us. 

We want to set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable. We’ll be happy to support you.

Take a peek inside life at Checkout.com via

• Our Culture video https://youtu.be/BEwnpHuadSw
• Our careers page https://www.checkout.com/careers
• Our LinkedIn Life pages bit.ly/3OaoN1U
• Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/checkout_com/