Senior Analytics Engineer, People

We Believe in the Everyday Hero

Small business owners are at the heart of everything we do. We’re creating tools that help them run their businesses effectively. With a founder’s mentality and a team-first attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that the small business owners we partner with can succeed in doing what they love.

Team

The People Tech & Analytics team’s mission is to enable long-term scalability by fostering a data-informed culture through seamless systems and a people-centric employee experience.

As part of this mission, we’re now looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to strengthen our analytics and data capabilities. This is a foundational role for People Analytics at SumUp. You’ll help define how we turn People data into actionable insights—building scalable models, reducing dependencies, and enabling self-service analytics that support data-driven decisions across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Develop data models in Snowflake that integrate multiple sources such as Greenhouse (ATS) and Workday (HRIS), delivering trusted data marts for business-critical use cases.
• Ensure that all People data products follow dbt ownership principles and maintain high-quality standards.
• Build robust ingestion, transformation, and documentation pipelines to improve data reliability and governance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Data, People, and Business teams to align technical solutions with real-world needs.
• Promote data interoperability by working across domains to define standards and integrate data for cross-tribe usage.
• Partner with data engineers to ensure the underlying infrastructure is scalable and reliable.

You’ll Be Great for This Role If You Have

• Strong experience designing architectural systems for complex KPIs and scalable data products.
• Solid background in data modeling and warehousing, with deep knowledge of Snowflake or equivalent platforms.
• Ability to translate business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Hands-on experience with dbt (or similar tools), Airflow, Git, CI/CD workflows, and AWS infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Python for data transformation, automation, or scripting tasks.
• Passion for mentoring and technical enablement, helping others grow their analytics engineering skills.
• Excellent stakeholder alignment skills—able to translate People and business needs into scalable, analytics-ready models.
• Experience working within a data mesh architecture and contributing to shared data ownership across teams.

Why You Should Join SumUp

• 🌍 Global Impact: Work with SumUppers around the world on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses, from our Berlin office (office-first setup).
• 🌈 Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Be part of a workplace that values and promotes diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone’s perspectives are respected and embraced.
• 📚 Learning & Development: €2,000 annual L&D budget for conferences and professional education.
• 🚀 VSOP Program: Own a stake in SumUp’s future success.
• 💶 Corporate Pension Scheme: We match up to 20% of your contributions.
• 🔄 30 Days Sabbatical: Enjoy a 30-day sabbatical after completing 3 years of employment with SumUp.
• 🔗 Referral Bonus: Earn rewards by referring talented individuals to join the SumUp team.
• 🚵🏾‍♂️ Additional Perks: Urban Sports Club subsidy, Kita placement assistance, relocation support, and subsidized office lunches.

Diversity & Equal Opportunity

SumUp is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that proudly pursues and hires a diverse workforce. We do not make employment decisions based on race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age. We also strive for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibit harassment of any kind.

About Us

SumUp is a leading financial technology company, founded in 2012 with the goal of empowering small businesses around the globe. We’re the financial partner of choice for more than 4 million merchants in over 35 markets. Together, we build, plan, and fine-tune the technology that drives SumUp and empowers small businesses worldwide.

We believe in the everyday hero — those who have the courage to follow their passion and the strength to realize their dreams. Small business owners are at the heart of all we do, and we’re building powerful, easy-to-use financial solutions to help them thrive. With a founder’s mentality and a team-first attitude, our diverse teams across Europe, South America, and the United States work together to ensure that small business owners can succeed doing what they love.

Job Application Tip

We recognize that candidates often feel they need to meet 100% of the job criteria before applying. Please note that this is only a guide — if you don’t tick every box, that’s okay! It means you have room to learn and grow your career with SumUp.