Lead Analytics Engineer
RatepayYour mission
In this crucial role, you’ll join Ratepay’s Data department in driving data-driven decision making by democratizing access to information via self-service analytics. You will work with data engineers, analysts, and ML engineers to strengthen the foundation of data products and enable business users to have seamless access to granular data via SQL LLMs.
The Data department at Ratepay encompasses Data Engineering, BI, Product Analytics and Data Analytics. We work with cloud-native CI/CD tech stack (Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, Tableau, BitBucket, Jenkins, etc.) in an AGILE way, infusing the data mesh principles into our development and release strategies. The role reports to the Head of Data, focusing on automating self-service reporting products and embedding data-informed decision-making across Risk, Product, and Finance domains.
The impact
- Drive the self-service reporting data product strategy by building on Ratepay’s cloud native CI/CD stack (Snowflake, AWS, Airflow, Tableau, BitBucket, Jenkins, etc).
- Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and ML-eng leads to develop LLM-based text-to-SQL/python apps.
- Thought partner for mid-senior analysts and engineers to foster professional growth and development.
- Own Ratepay’s KPI definition and cataloging.
- Improve Ratepay’s data mesh inspired data modeling, analysis, reporting, and visualization practices mapped to the business use case.
- Influence data availability to enable analysts to develop insights into risk models, debt management, financing performance, etc.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, ML, and Finance leadership teams to scope emerging analytics use cases.
- Support improvements in data and platform infrastructure to enhance analytics capabilities and tools.
That's what you bring along
- Have experience in developing self-service analytics as a product via engineering practices.
- Be self-motivated and enthusiastic about solving analytics and self-service reporting use-cases with process automation tools and Gen AI.
- Bring simplicity to seemingly complex topics to engage senior management.
- Have experience in data analysis, interpretation, and visualization.
- Be a strategic thinker with problem-solving skills, focusing on driving business impact.
- Have exposure to project management frameworks, with a track record of delivering projects on time and within scope.
- Be proficient in SQL, data cataloging tools, data lakes and self-service BI tooling.
- Have had exposure to statistical analysis and machine learning techniques.
- Be proficient in English and optionally in German.
Equal Opportunities & Diversity
We value our diversity and welcome everyone to our team. Regardless of ethnic and social background, religious beliefs, worldview, gender, sexual orientation, physical and mental limitations, age, marital status, educational background and nationality.
With over 250 employees and 40 different nationalities, we take our values seriously. These include; ownership, growth, integrity, collaboration, customer centricity and inclusion (4/7 of our C-Level Board members are female).
About us
We dare to design the future of payments. Ratepay is energy and diversity and: custom-made state-of-the-art payment solutions. Established in 2009 we were a fintech before the word fintech even existed. Today we are the number one white-label Buy Now Pay Later payments provider in Europe handling over 2.5M transactions per month and we’re constantly growing.
We are where we are because we work together as one team. Because we got the freedom to execute ideas. And above everything: because we never stop improving. Here it is all about shared goals not about the big ego. We are dedicated pros (more than 250 of them) not cons. We embrace being courageous, committed and decisive, warm-hearted and having a will to win.
We have our origin in the heart of the payment scene and cover the whole value chain from integration support to the dunning process with a core of AI-based risk management. With us, you can integrate direct debit, instalments and prepayment. In other words: the favourite payment methods in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the Dutch like it too). Located in the middle of Europe’s fintech metropolis (Berlin) we are proud to work with major partners such as Eurowings, Ebay and About You and hundreds more.