Engineering Lead, Regulatory Reporting

About the team

The Regulatory Reporting team builds and operates Airwallex's automated compliance reporting pipeline across 10+ jurisdictions globally. We own the full stack: data modelling, submission tooling, AI-assisted review, and the internal platforms that compliance teams rely on to meet their regulatory obligations.

We are a small, high-leverage team. Every engineer has direct impact on Airwallex's global licence health.

What you'll do

As an Engineering Lead you own both the technical direction and the day-to-day execution of the regulatory reporting engineering function. You lead a team of backend and frontend engineers, define the architecture, and act as the primary technical partner to Compliance, Legal, and Finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical roadmap for regulatory reporting automation across all licensed entities and jurisdictions.

• Lead architecture decisions across data pipelines, submission tooling, and AI-assisted compliance workflows.

• Manage and grow a team of 4–8 engineers; provide technical mentorship, conduct code and design reviews, and set engineering standards.

• Own delivery of regulatory reporting milestones — ensuring reports are accurate, on time, and auditable.

• Act as the primary engineering point of contact for Compliance, Legal, and Finance; translate regulatory requirements into technical specifications.

• Drive adoption of AI/LLM tooling to automate repetitive review, gap analysis, and interpretation tasks.

• Define and uphold data quality, testing, and reconciliation standards across all reporting models.

• Partner with the broader Core Banking engineering organisation on shared data platform capabilities.

Who you are

Minimum qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a lead or staff engineer role.

• Strong backend engineering foundation — Python, Kotlin, or Java; comfortable with SQL at scale.

• Proven track record leading delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder technical programmes.

• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous regulatory or compliance requirements into clear engineering designs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable representing engineering to non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in financial services, regulatory technology, or compliance automation.

• Hands-on with dbt, Databricks, Spark, or BigQuery in a production analytics engineering context.

• Familiarity with LLM/agent frameworks (RAG, tool-use, evaluation pipelines) for document-heavy domains.

• Experience operating in a multi-jurisdiction, multi-entity environment.

• Track record building robust reconciliation and data quality frameworks for financial reporting.