Senior Manager, Data Lake Engineering

About the Team / Role

As the Senior Manager of Data Lake Engineering, this leader will be responsible for the execution of the Data Lake platform (supporting both GenAI and traditional AI / ML technology and applications), DataLake, and related technology, systems, and tools. This leader will execute the technology development and architecture in these areas to ensure the platforms, systems, tools, models, and services generated from this team are technically sound with strong security, quality, reliability, usability, scalability, performance, efficiency, and operability to serve the fast growing needs of Wex and customers. It’s important to balance the near term and long term needs. To do these, you will be closely partnering with other leaders and teams in the Tech org, Digital org, and other orgs in the company including Data & Analytics, Risk & Compliance, the Line of Business (LOB) 3 legs (commercial, digital, and technology), Security, central architecture & PaaS team, Global Tech Services, Finance, Marketing, and customer service orgs to understand their business and needs for Data Lake technologies, platforms, services, and guide our design, development, and productionalization accordingly.

How you’ll make an impact

This is a fantastic opportunity for a highly motivated and passionate technical leader to apply deep expertise and rich experience in the Data Lake and related areas to develop technology, platforms, and services, and apply them to multiple lines of business with a big customer base to generate real business impact in a fast growing commerce platform and payment tech company during its technology transformation stage to meet high customer demands. At the same time, you will learn and grow your career by solving large scale and complex problems.

This leader will have technical ownership of WEX’s Data Lake platform / infrastructure & services, including but not limited to architecture, technical direction, engineering best practice, and quality / compliance. This also includes proper and effective architectural integration with other platforms, products, and services across the company. This leader will work closely with team members of Data, AI, and Risk Technology (DART) org in a hands-on way, and provide guidance and coaches.

The vision behind Wex’s Data Lake is to create a unified, scalable, and intelligent data infrastructure that empowers our organization to unlock the full potential of our data. At its core, the Data Lake is designed to serve as the foundation for modern data management, enabling us to ingest, store, process, and analyze vast amounts of diverse data from across the enterprise. This vision is centered on three primary goals : data democratization, agility and scalability, and advanced insights and innovation including fully harvesting the power of AI technology.

Experience you’ll bring

We are looking for a highly motivated, technically deep, and experienced Engineering leader to join the org to grow and manage a group of high-performing engineers in the Data Lake and AI engineering area.

This Senior Manager will report to the Senior Director of Data Lake Engineering located in the San Francisco Bay Area. This role will be located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader with deep technical expertise in building and scaling data lake environments, coupled with strong people leadership and communication skills to drive clarity for deliverables within the Data Lake organization.