Senior Data Engineer

The AML AI Engineering Squad, a cross-functional team within the Risk & Compliance tribe. Our team is responsible for developing cutting-edge data products and ML Solutions that power Transaction Monitoring and protect our merchant base from Money Laundering and Financial Crime. Besides, we combine automation, AI, and engineering excellence to build innovative products that empower Risk and AML teams to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. 

The Senior Data Engineer role is critical for creating the robust, high-quality data foundation that drives efficiency, powers AI-driven automation, and enables data-driven decisions for our Risk and AML agents. You will be the expert who builds and maintains data pipelines in our system, ensuring analysts, product managers, and AI systems have trusted, accessible data.

Join us to shape the future of financial safety and make a lasting impact!

What You'll Be Doing

• Build and operate Python-based, production-grade data pipelines that power AI automation and ML workflows (Risk Decision Center / SAR Studio), including near real-time datasets and aggregations
• Ensure data quality and reliability end-to-end through validations, testing, monitoring, alerting, and clear SLAs/ownership
• Create and maintain core data models and aggregations for Risk and AML decisioning and analytics
• Support Regulatory Reporting by building scalable reporting pipelines, handling ad-hoc regulator requests, and ensuring traceability through audit trails, versioning, and reproducible outputs
  
• Improve and document our data foundations and governance (architecture, dependencies, dataset definitions/lineage)
• Collaborate closely with Data Platform and a cross-functional squad (data scientists, software engineers, analysts) to align on requirements and deliver safely in production

You’ll Be Great for This Position If You Have

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Data Engineer, focusing on building and deploying scalable data solutions.
• Expert-level Python and PySpark proficiency and excellent software development engineering skills for designing computationally effective solutions in large-scale production.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS technologies (S3, EKS, Keyspaces, Athena)
• Experience implementing data pipelines, and a good understanding of API design, containers (Docker), and version control (Git).
• Experience building, maintaining, and scaling APIs, and deployment using CI/CD Pipelines in GitHub actions.
• A true team player attitude who thrives on cross-functional collaboration.
• Self-drive, proactiveness, and high adaptability in a fast-paced environment, with a commitment to data governance, quality, and ownership.
• A passion for AI Technology, excited to power SumUp's next generation of automated support tools, and able to translate complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in FinTech
• Previous experience in a cross-functional setup. 
• Previous experience with GraphDBs 

Why you should join SumUp

• We’re a truly global team of 3000+ people from 92+ countries, spread across 4 continents.
• You'll have the opportunity to make an impact as we work in flat hierarchies.
• You'll attend global offsites and regular team events.
• You’ll receive a budget for attending conferences and external training. 
• We offer a corporate pension scheme, 28 days’ paid leave, free German and yoga classes, subsidised Urban Sports Club membership and other great benefits. 

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, so we're creating tools that 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, colour, 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.

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