Director, Data and Knowledge Platform Engineering (Fintech)

Location: Must be based in San Francisco

Company

Airwallex is a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, providing integrated solutions for business accounts, payments, and treasury management.

What you will do

• Own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed Data → Knowledge → Skills stack.
• Design and scale semantic and operational layers on top of a Databricks Lakehouse.
• Implement regional data localization and residency strategies to satisfy regulatory requirements globally.
• Productize platform capabilities to enable consistent reasoning for both human analysts and AI agents.
• Collaborate with Data Science, AI engineering, Product, and Risk teams to support rapid experimentation and automation.

Requirements

• 15+ years in data or platform engineering, including 5+ years leading teams in complex, multi-region environments.
• Proven experience architecting modern data platforms with semantic layers, metadata systems, or knowledge graphs.
• Strong expertise in data modeling (transactional, event-driven, dimensional) and observability practices.
• Deep familiarity with Databricks and modern lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with data governance, privacy, and regulatory controls in multi-jurisdictional contexts.
• Must be based in San Francisco

Culture & Benefits

• Culture of ownership and "founder-like energy" with a focus on high impact and accelerated learning.
• Opportunity to tackle complex, high-visibility problems within a globally distributed team.
• Environment that encourages using AI to work smarter and solve problems faster.
• Commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment.