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WiseData Analytics Manager - Risk & Controls
Wise seeks an experienced Lead Data Analyst or Analytics Manager to join its Platform Engineering and Security team in London on a full-time, on-site basis. The…
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Wise seeks an experienced Lead Data Analyst or Analytics Manager to join its Platform Engineering and Security team in London on a full-time, on-site basis. The Platform Engineering Tribe powers the infrastructure that allows engineering groups to innovate and deploy code safely across data, machine learning, incident management, and hardware domains. In this position, the successful candidate will shape how security and risk are managed through data. Responsibilities include building…
Job Description
Wise seeks an experienced Lead Data Analyst or Analytics Manager to join its Platform Engineering and Security team in London on a full-time, on-site basis. The Platform Engineering Tribe powers the infrastructure that allows engineering groups to innovate and deploy code safely across data, machine learning, incident management, and hardware domains.
In this position, the successful candidate will shape how security and risk are managed through data. Responsibilities include building data pipelines for continuous control monitoring, evaluating control efficiency, creating metrics for control testing, and helping formulate the data strategy for the risk pillar. The professional will also manage a small team of one to two analysts.
This role is suited for an analytical professional with a background in data pipelines, risk management, and stakeholder collaboration. Wise provides an environment combining autonomy and collaboration within an international financial services company.
Responsibilities
- Scale and improve risk data infrastructure to help global teams dissect metrics and spot risk drivers
- Build metrics to monitor controls, ensure proper performance, and support control testing
- Establish control efficiency frameworks to verify that controls reduce risk without hindering growth
- Collaborate with product, engineering, risk, and compliance stakeholders on global controls
- Partner with cybersecurity teams to monitor local and infrastructure risk typologies
- Translate compliance requirements into measurable metrics, SLAs, and continuous monitoring dashboards
- Investigate data issues, resolve missed SLAs, and fix queries to maintain dashboard accuracy
- Develop, optimize, and maintain data pipelines using Python, REST APIs, DBT, and Airflow
- Manage, support, and guide one or two analysts within the security and risk space
Requirements
- At least six years of professional experience
- Proficiency in SQL
- Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Looker, Superset, PowerBI, or Tableau
- Experience in automation, building data pipelines, and utilizing DBT and Airflow for ETL processes
- Skill in using REST APIs to develop and manage data integrations
- Strong critical thinking, influence, and proactive problem-solving abilities
- Prior experience leading one to two analysts
Qualifications
- Familiarity with security frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST
- Understanding of continuous control monitoring concepts
Core Skills
Benefits
- Competitive stock options in a profitable company
- Flexible working conditions designed to support work-life balance
- An annual budget dedicated to personal and professional development
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This position is based in London and is on-site.
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The role is full-time.
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Will this role include management duties?
Yes, the person in this position will directly manage and support one to two analysts.
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