Senior Analytics Engineer
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Telecoms and related network installers and repairers
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
👋 About Us
NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.
We operate two core products:
At NALA, this isn't just a job. It's ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.
Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion
🙌 Your Mission
As Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll own, uplift and maintain NALA's data transformation layer — the foundation that all reporting, governed metrics, self-serve analytics and AI-powered capabilities depend on. Your work will add semantic richness, structure and governance to NALA's data, ensuring every model is documented, tested and described in a way that both humans and AI agents can interpret and trust. Agentic analytics is arriving fast, and this role exists to help ensure NALA's data foundation is ready for it.
🎯 Your Responsibilities In This Role
NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.
We operate two core products:
- NALA, our consumer app makes cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia
- Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments
At NALA, this isn't just a job. It's ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.
Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion
🙌 Your Mission
As Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll own, uplift and maintain NALA's data transformation layer — the foundation that all reporting, governed metrics, self-serve analytics and AI-powered capabilities depend on. Your work will add semantic richness, structure and governance to NALA's data, ensuring every model is documented, tested and described in a way that both humans and AI agents can interpret and trust. Agentic analytics is arriving fast, and this role exists to help ensure NALA's data foundation is ready for it.
🎯 Your Responsibilities In This Role
- Own the transformation layer (dbt + Snowflake) — refactoring, enforcing best practices, and evolving our data stack to a best-in-class standard
- Take ownership of streaming data pipelines alongside batch transformation — ensuring real-time and near-real-time data flows are reliable, cost-efficient and well-integrated into the broader data architecture
- Establish and enforce coding & agentic coding standards, systematic testing and documentation as CI-enforced defaults across all data models
- Optimise warehouse performance and cost efficiency, identifying and resolving the query patterns and materialisation choices driving unnecessary spend
- Build the foundation for AI-powered self-serve by ensuring models carry the semantic richness and documentation that agents need to return reliable answers
- Scope and resolve orchestration decisions (dbt Cloud vs Dagster) and own the infrastructure roadmap for the transformation layer
- Support and mentor analysts on analytics engineering best practices, raising the engineering standard across the team
- 4+ years hands-on experience with dbt (ideally fusion) — building, refactoring and maintaining production-grade transformation layers
- Semantic layer experience (Cube, dbt Semantic Layer) and understanding of how governed metric definitions sit on top of a transformation layer
- Familiarity with orchestration tools (Dagster, Airflow, dbt Cloud etc)
- Experience with Hex or similar modern BI/notebook platforms
- Experience in fintech, payments or regulated environments where data accuracy and governance carry real business consequences
- Familiarity with experimentation frameworks and product analytics
✅ Success in the role looks like
3-Month Metrics
You will need to first submit your application through our ATS Workable. There is no need to submit a Cover Letter.
If successful you will be selected for our interview process which has 4 stages:
3-Month Metrics
- Full ownership of the transformation layer and warehouse, with a clear understanding of the current architecture, cost drivers and priorities
- Full ownership of warehouse coding standards, data architecture and infrastructure
- Measurable improvement in the cost and efficiency of supplying data to the business
- A clear data infrastructure roadmap delivered for the following 6 months
You will need to first submit your application through our ATS Workable. There is no need to submit a Cover Letter.
If successful you will be selected for our interview process which has 4 stages:
- [30mins] Interview with the Talent Team
- We want to understand your experience and motivations
- [1hr] Live Assessment with the Data Team
- A practical exercise based on a realistic task, completed and discussed with a member of the data team
- [1hr] Interview with the Hiring Manager
- A deeper dive into your experience, technical depth and approach to the role
- A final conversation with a member of our senior leadership team to discuss motivations and ask your own questions
- 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
- Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
- Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
- Enhanced Pension: Salary sacrifice pension scheme via Penfold giving you flexibility and control on how you save for your future!
- Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide
- Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development
- Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team
- Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times
- Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips