Senior Analytics Engineer, Compliance

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

The Role

The Risk Analytics Engineering team at Block delivers data-driven insights and infrastructure that power regulatory excellence, risk management, and compliance operations. We do this through building robust data pipelines, developing advanced analytics models, and enabling compliance stakeholders to self-serve their data needs. Our Engineers own core data strategy and infrastructure, impacting everything from data architecture and modeling to tooling and optimization.

You'll be supporting our Compliance Data Science & Analytics team, which has evolved to support unprecedented demand from our regulatory and compliance operations. With request volume reaching all-time highs, we need an individual with a mission to maximize workflow automation and drive enablement by building new tools and infrastructure.

You Will

• Lead cross-team initiatives to build scalable, widely used data pipelines that drive insights across the organization and support regulatory decision-making


• Build on and promote an effective data strategy, including developing processes, policy, and infrastructure to help standardize compliance and risk metric definitions


• Develop and own key components of the data pipeline, both creating new and optimizing existing data models, translating compliance signals and regulatory requirements to analytical insights


• Collaborate with stakeholders, platform/tooling teams, and compliance partners to build scalable data solutions that drive regulatory response and risk mitigation


• Enable others to efficiently manage data assets by building automation tooling, self-serve reporting tools, and reusable data solutions that make it simpler and faster to work with compliance data

You Have

• Background/knowledge in Computer Science, Applied Math, Engineering, Statistics, or something comparable


• Experience with financial data and/or compliance/regulatory reporting preferred


• 7+ years of industry experience building complex, scalable ETLs for a variety of different business and product use cases


• A strategic mindset that drives technical excellence while building consensus with multiple stakeholders and partners


• An interest in advancing Block's mission of economic empowerment through trust and transparency - this should be something that legitimately excites you

Technologies We Use and Teach

• SQL (Snowflake, BigQuery, MySQL, etc.)


• Python


• Airflow and Prefect


• dbt


• Looker / Mode

We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

While there is no specific deadline to apply for this role, U.S. roles are typically open for an average of 55 days before being filled by a successful candidate. Please refer to the date listed at the top of this job page for when this role was first posted.