Overview

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize scalable, maintainable, and high-performance data pipelines for regulatory data ingestion, transformation, and delivery
• Develop XML and REST API connectors to integrate data from banking partners, regulatory feeds, internal systems, and risk/compliance platforms
• Implement bit request handlers to support real-time transaction and portfolio data updates for risk monitoring and regulatory reporting
• Work with Compliance, MLRO, and Risk teams to understand regulatory filing and reporting requirements, then design data models and transformations to support them
• Interpret regulatory requirements (sanctions lists, transaction thresholds, portfolio limits, reporting deadlines) and encode them into data logic and quality checks
• Design and maintain efficient data models in cloud data warehousing solutions (e.g., Redshift) optimized for regulatory reporting, audit trail queries, and risk analytics
• Write complex SQL queries and transformations to prepare data for compliance analysis, regulatory submissions, and audit trails
• Ingest and transform both structured (databases, APIs) and semi-structured (XML, JSON) data at scale from diverse compliance and risk sources
• Establish robust data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting mechanisms to ensure data integrity for regulatory compliance and risk control effectiveness
• Support cloud migration initiatives and modernize legacy data pipelines (e.g., on premises to AWS)
• Document data pipelines, connectors, and technical architecture for auditability, regulatory inspection readiness, and cross-team knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with Country Compliance, MLRO, Risk, Product, and Data teams to operationalize compliance rules and regulatory logic into scalable systems
• Evaluate effectiveness of data controls, monitoring, and quality checks using testing and validation (e.g., completeness checks, SLA validation, rule effectiveness)

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of professional experience in Data Engineering, ETL/ELT pipeline development, or systems integration
• Strong SQL expertise including query optimization, complex transformations, and data modelling
• Solid proficiency in Python (or similar language) for writing data pipelines, scripts, and data processing logic
• Hands-on experience designing and developing API connectors (REST, SOAP) and working with XML/JSON data formats
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Apache Airflow, Prefect, or equivalent) for workflow automation
• Understanding of data modelling concepts and ability to design efficient schemas for analytical and operational workloads
• Knowledge of data quality frameworks and testing practices for data pipelines
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex data integration issues
• Collaborative mindset with ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with regulatory reporting requirements (e.g., transaction reporting, sanctions screening, KYC/AML, portfolio monitoring) is highly valuable
• Ability to learn and interpret regulatory documentation and translate compliance/risk requirements into technical specifications

Benefits

• We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
• We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
• We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
• We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
• We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
• For more detailed region specific benefits : https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks
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