Senior Analytics Engineer, People

Berlin, Germany · Data Engineer/Scientist

About SumUp

We believe in the everyday hero.

Small business owners are at the heart of everything we do, so 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 join us and 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) and deliver 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.


• A solid background in data modeling and warehousing, with deep knowledge of Snowflake or equivalent platforms.


• The 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.


• A 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

• Opportunity to work with SumUppers globally on large-scale fintech products used by millions of businesses worldwide, from our Berlin office. This involves an 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


• A dedicated annual L&D budget of €2,000 for attending conferences and/or advancing your career through further education