Senior Analytics Engineer - Run & Grow

As our Analytics Engineer, you'll be the connective tissue that shapes how data is owned, defined, and built at scale across SumUp. You'll partner with squads to build a world-class data foundation with stable business domains, trusted metrics, and AI-ready data products.

What you'll do

• Partner with squads across the tribe on event design and data contracts, maintaining staging pipelines, applying modelling conventions, and keeping domain outputs consistent, tested, and discoverable
• Model key business domains — including merchant activity, product adoption, lifecycle events, and risk scoring — building well-documented, quality-assured data products that serve as the trusted source of truth across the organisation
• Build and maintain the insights layer on top of governed domains, producing reusable KPI models, funnels, cohorts, and segmentations that Product, Commercial, and AI teams can self-serve with confidence
• Implement technical improvements including incremental processing strategies, performance optimisations, and scalable data architecture to support growing data volumes
• Contribute to SumUp's broader data domain strategy, helping establish durable ownership, consistent definitions, and a shared catalogue of data products

What you'll need

• Strong, proven experience in analytics engineering or data engineering, with a track record of building and maintaining production data systems
• Expert-level SQL skills for complex transformations and query optimisation, with hands-on experience building layered data models in a modern data warehouse or lakehouse and solid command of dbt
• Ability to think in terms of business domains — translating complex business logic into clean, durable, and reusable data models
• Comfort working across squads with Product Managers, Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists, contributing to data design conversations
• Deep care for data quality, trust, and discoverability — building models others can rely on with proactive mindset around contracts and observability

What they offer

• Virtual Stock Option programme
• Annual L&D budget of €2000
• Corporate pension scheme with up to 20% matching
• 28 days paid leave plus public holidays
• 1-month sabbatical after 3 years of service
• Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, subsidised office lunches