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You will remain hands-on while leading architecture decisions, developing reusable ingestion services, and guiding engineers across teams. Your work will support batch, change data capture (CDC), and event-driven ingestion, with clear expectations for data quality, reliability, security, and cost.\nWEX is undergoing a data platform transformation-and this team builds the foundation. Every pipeline you create contributes directly to powering analytics, automation, and product intelligence across all business domains.\nIf you’re passionate about scaling data platforms from the ground up, this is your chance to help shape how WEX ingests and leverages its most valuable asset: data.\nWhat You’ll Do\nBuild and maintain high-performance data acquisition pipelines that integrate with a variety of systems across WEX and third-party vendors.\nLead the design and delivery of a modular ingestion platform with reusable connectors and configuration-driven onboarding. Establish metadata and configuration patterns that reduce source-specific development and support Data Acquisition as a Service.\nBuild schema validation, completeness checks, reconciliation, duplicate prevention, and audit logging into shared ingestion components.\nSupport safe retries, replay, backfills, and schema evolution so failures can be recovered without losing or incorrectly duplicating data.\nDesign batch, CDC, and streaming ingestion patterns that meet agreed freshness, throughput, and recovery requirements. Evaluate performance, source-system impact, and operating cost when selecting and extending ingestion technologies.\nEnsure traceability, lineage, and security through integration with control plane and governance systems.\nLead design and code reviews, maintain technical specifications and architectural decisions, and mentor engineers in reusable platform design.\nEstablish automated testing and CI/CD practices for ingestion code, connector configuration, and infrastructure, with validation before production deployment.\nPartner with the established production support process on complex escalations, root-cause analysis, and preventive engineering improvements.\nWhat You Bring\nRequired:\nB.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; M.Sc. a plus but not required.\n8+ years of software engineering experience, including delivery of production distributed systems or data platforms and demonstrated technical leadership across team boundaries.\nStrong programming skills in Python, Java, Scala, or another systems-focused language.\nExperience with data integration and ingestion pipelines -you understand what it means to bring data in from source systems, transform it, and deliver it reliably downstream.\nSolid grasp of engineering fundamentals, including version control, modular design, testing, and performance tuning.\nDemonstrated experience designing and operating production integrations that handle schema evolution, failure recovery, observability, and secure access.\nAbility to lead architecture decisions, explain engineering tradeoffs, resolve dependencies across teams, and guide implementation through production adoption.\nPractical experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for design, coding, testing, or documentation, with validation of generated outputs for correctness, security, and maintainability.\nA collaborative mindset-comfortable working across domains, products, and infrastructure layers.\nA strong sense of ownership and accountability-you care deeply about building systems that last.\nPreferred:\nExperience building reusable connectors, metadata-driven ingestion services, or configuration-driven onboarding capabilities.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nDuring your first year, you will work with engineering and product leadership to establish baselines and agree on outcomes such as:\nReducing onboarding lead time and manual effort through shared connectors and configuration-driven patterns.\nIncreasing adoption of reusable ingestion capabilities across sources and teams.\nMeeting agreed completeness and freshness criteria, with reliable reconciliation and recovery.\nImproving deployment quality and reducing recurring failures through automated testing and actionable observability.\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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