Staff Engineer - Data Foundations

Adyen is building a top-tier data team across San Francisco and Amsterdam. The goal is to accelerate data as our most differentiating and least replicable asset across our company. The team is new and sits at the heart of our engineering organization. You will join as one of its technical leaders, architect data and work on complex challenges across the company. You will be based in San Francisco and work closely with the Data Foundations lead in Amsterdam.

Responsibilities

Build greenfield data architecture and help write the mandate, architecture and standards; Set the target architecture for shared data models, data contracts and the semantic layer; Work with domain teams so each core metric is defined once and owned by the domain that creates it; Agree data contracts between producers and consumers with owners, versions and automatic checks; Build lineage in from the start; Guide domain teams to publish data products with a clear owner, schema and service level; Stay hands-on by building prototypes, reviewing designs and solving hard problems in the data stack; Partner across Adyen with Product, Finance, Compliance, Platform Engineering and domain leads; Mentor engineers in Data Foundations and in the domains and raise the bar in design reviews

Requirements

10+ years in data engineering or data architecture; Experience working at Staff scope; Experience setting direction for more than one team while staying hands-on; Experience designing shared data models, data contracts or semantic layers that many teams build on; Ability to defend trade-offs; Experience driving changes to what other teams built without formal authority; Ability to explain hard ideas in plain words to engineers, finance people and executives; Clear writing; Ability to work well with Engineering, Product, Finance, Compliance and other stakeholders across time zones; Self-directed: picks own problems and drives them to done