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This is a \"platform-as-a-product\"role; your mission is to build the internal foundation-creating the high-performance engines, abstraction layers, and self-service frameworks that enable hundreds of other engineers to move faster.\nYou will operate at the intersection of Systems Programmingand Data Engineering, solving \"hard-tech\" problems like automated schema evolution, multi-engine compute optimization, and global data discovery. As a top-level technical individual contributor, you will bridge the gap between long-term business strategy and deep-kernel technical execution, ensuring WEX’s data platform remains a competitive advantage.\nIs this role for you?\nYES, if: You are a Backend/Software Engineer who loves solving \"Big Data\" problems, building APIs for data discovery, and optimizing distributed systems.\n\nNO, if: Your primary expertise is writing SQL queries, building Tableau dashboards, or managing ETL workflows without deep experience in Java or Python system architecture.\n\nResponsibilities\nArchitectural Sovereignty:Define the 3-5 year technical roadmap for the Data Lakehouse. You aren't just using tools; you are deciding how storage, compute, and metadata layers (e.g., Apache Iceberg, Snowflake Horizon or Databricks Unity Catalog) interact at an elemental level.\n\nPlatform-as-a-Product:Build internal SDKs, CLI tools, and automated orchestration frameworks. Your goal is to abstract away cloud complexity via Control Planesand Custom Operators, allowing Data Engineers to focus on business logic rather than infrastructure boilerplate.\n\nInternal R&D:Prototype and benchmark emerging technologies (e.g., specialized Spark extensions) to keep the platform at the bleeding edge of performance and cost-efficiency.\n\nGlobal Governance & Security:Architect \"compliance-by-design\" systems. Automate data lineage, PII masking, and fine-grained access control across petabyte-scale environments without sacrificing developer velocity.\n\nAI Governance Lake:Facilitate real-time data ingestion by implementing streaming support for Open Telemetry data from AI Agents into the Data Lake, drive the development of advanced AI evaluation metrics and reporting.\n\nEngineering Excellence & Influence:Set the gold standard for code quality and system design across the company. You will lead Cross-Functional Architecture Reviews and serve as the final escalation point for the most complex system outages or performance bottlenecks.\n\nOrganizational Mentorship:Beyond individual mentoring, you will foster an \"Engineering Community,\" influencing the hiring bar and professional development paths for the entire data engineering organization.\n\nQualifications & Experience\nExperience:15+ years in software engineering and distributed systems, with at least 4 years in a principal or staff-level capacity leading platform-scale initiatives.\n\nCore Technical Competencies (Software Engineering Focus):\nStrong Software Foundations: Strong fundamentals on software engineering, system architecture, and scalable production applications (Algorithms, Data Structures, and System Design).\n\nExperience in the Java/J2EE ecosystem (Spring Boot, Microservices) and python. We are looking for a developer who writes clean, testable, and high-performance code, not just scripts.\n\nData as a Product: Experience building the platforms / framework engines and APIs that power data movement, rather than just building the ETL/ELT pipelines themselves.\n\nData Lakehouse Mastery:\nDeep internal knowledge of Apache Iceberg, Hudi, or Delta Lake(metadata management, manifest files, and compaction strategies).\n\nExperience contributing to or deeply customizing open-source data projects (e.g., Spark, dbt).\n\nExtensive experience designing and buildinghigh-throughput, fault-tolerantdata pipelines and orchestrationframeworks that ensure robust data transformations and high data quality.\n\nCloud & Infrastructure:\nExtensive experience with cloud architecture and services, including AWS (S3, EMR, Kubernetes, Lambda) and Azure.\n\nDeep understanding of CI/CD automation, modern development tools, Git Actions, Terraform and frameworks.\n\nAI-Driven Development & Productivity:\nAI Native Development:Experience leveraging AI Code Gen platforms into software development lifecycle (SDLC) to automate code generation, reviews, generate unit tests, and perform root-cause analysis of system failures.\n\nLLM-Ops for Platform:Ability to architect the infrastructure required to support AI Agent development by enabling vector database integration.\n\nLeadership & Vision:\nProven track record of \"leading by influence\"-driving adoption of new technologies across multiple autonomous teams.\n\nAbility to communicate complex architectural trade-offs (e.g., \"Latency vs. Consistency\" or \"Build vs. Buy\") to C-suite executives and junior engineers alike.\n\nEducation:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science (Distributed Systems focus) preferred, or equivalent deep industry experience.\n\nThe base pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual pay rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as your qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. Base pay is one component of WEX's total compensation package. Most sales positions are eligible for commission under the terms of an applicable plan. Non-sales roles are typically eligible for a quarterly or annual bonus based on their role and applicable plan. WEX's comprehensive and market competitive benefits are designed to support your personal and professional well-being. Benefits include health, dental and vision insurances, retirement savings plan, paid time off, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability insurance, tuition reimbursement, and more. 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