Director, Data and Knowledge Platform Engineering
AI summary of the role
Airwallex is hiring a Director, Data and Knowledge Platform Engineering to own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack on top of a Databricks Lakehouse.
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What you’ll do
- Own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack powering analytics, AI agents, and real-time decisioning.
- Design and scale the semantic and operational layers on top of the Data Lakehouse (Databricks), enforcing strong governance and lineage.
- Own the regional and global data localization strategy within the Databricks environment, designing architectural patterns that satisfy regulatory requirements while preserving a unified global data model.
- Productize capabilities so both human analysts and machine agents reason and act consistently.
What you’ll bring
- 15+ years in data or platform engineering.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams in complex, multi-region environments.
- Proven experience architecting and scaling modern data platforms that include semantic layers, metadata systems, or knowledge graphs.
- Strong hands-on expertise in data modeling (transactional, event-driven, dimensional, feature tables) with robust data quality, lineage, and observability practices.
Technologies
Databricks · Data Lakehouse · semantic layer · knowledge graph · metadata systems · data modeling · data governance · APIs · orchestration frameworks · data quality
About Airwallex
Global financial platform offering multi-currency accounts, cross-border payments, spend management, and embedded finance APIs for businesses, earning revenue on FX spreads, transaction fees, and SaaS-style platform fees.
Series G · 1000–5000 people
Source and classification
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Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Role Summary: We’re hiring a Director, Data and Knowledge Platform Engineering (based in San Francisco) to own the architecture, delivery, and adoption of a governed, reusable Data → Knowledge → Skills stack that powers analytics, AI agents, and real-time decisioning across the company. This is a product-facing platform leadership role. The successful leader will design and scale the semantic and operational layers on top of our Data Lakehouse (Databricks), enforce strong governance and lineage, and productize capabilities so both human analysts and machine agents reason and act consistently. The Role: Our platform is evolving beyond raw data storage into a structured, scalable system comprising three tightly
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About Airwallex Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us. Attributes We Value We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into r [... source excerpt omitted ...] s role is ownership of the regional and global data localization strategy within our Databricks environment. This includes designing architectural patterns that satisfy regulatory requirements while preserving a unified global data model across priority markets. The platform must reconcile local compliance constraints with global consistency in definitions, metrics, and knowledge artifacts. You will partner closely with Data Science, AI engineering, Product, and Risk teams to ensure the platform supports rapid experimentation, intelligent automation, and high-quality decision-making, transforming raw data into durable knowledge and deployable skills across the organization. Ideal E [... source excerpt omitted ...] e contrary. Equal opportunity Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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