Director, Data Engineering

About Paysafe

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,000 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com. 

Position Overview

Paysafe is seeking an accomplished and strategic Director of Data Engineering to lead and advance our enterprise data platform capabilities based in Sofia.

Reporting to the VP, Data Engineering and Reporting, this senior leadership role is responsible for defining and executing the vision, strategy, and operating model for data engineering across the organization. The role will drive the architecture, scalability, resilience, governance, and modernization of the enterprise data ecosystem while building a high-performing team.

This position plays a critical role in enabling advanced analytics, real-time insights, and data-driven decision-making at scale, while aligning business priorities with modern cloud and data platform investments including Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, and Azure.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Leadership

• Define and lead the enterprise data engineering strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned with business priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing data engineering organization, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with senior business and technology stakeholders to translate enterprise goals into actionable data platform initiatives.
• Act as a senior escalation point for platform risks, delivery challenges, and strategic decisions.

Platform Architecture & Engineering

• Provide executive leadership for the design and modernization of scalable, secure, and resilient data platforms across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Establish architectural standards and engineering principles for data ingestion, transformation, storage, orchestration, and consumption.
• Oversee the design and optimization of data pipelines, data lakes, and analytical data products to ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Drive adoption of modern data processing frameworks including Snowflake, Databricks, Snowpipe, Snowpark, and ELT/ETL patterns.

Data Governance & Quality

• Define and implement enterprise data governance, security, privacy, and compliance frameworks.
• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, consistency, and trust across master, reference, and transactional data.
• Partner with architecture, security, and risk teams to ensure regulatory alignment and data integrity.

Integration & Modernization

• Lead real-time and batch data integration capabilities, including streaming and event-driven architectures.
• Oversee integration technologies such as Oracle Goldengate and Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).
• Drive platform modernization through automation, standardization, CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code.

Operations & Delivery Excellence

• Establish KPIs, SLAs, and operational metrics to ensure platform performance and continuous improvement.
• Manage budgets, capacity planning, and vendor relationships.
• Drive observability, reliability, and operational excellence across the data platform.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Identify opportunities to enhance scalability, developer productivity, and business value through innovation.

Qualifications & Experience

Experience

• 15+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles.
• 5–7+ years in senior leadership roles managing large-scale data platforms and teams.
• Proven track record of defining and executing enterprise data strategies in complex, regulated environments.

Technical Expertise

• Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and cloud-native data architectures.
• Extensive experience with Snowflake, including architecture, performance optimization, and governance.
• Strong experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Hadoop, and distributed data processing.
• Experience with enterprise integration tools such as Oracle Goldengate and ODI.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
• Knowledge of streaming and event-driven technologies (Kafka, Flink).
• Familiarity with AI/ML-enabled data platforms is a plus.

Leadership & Business Skills

• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and commercial mindset.
• Ability to balance innovation, risk, speed, and operational stability.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through change and manage multiple priorities.

Leadership Scope

Reporting to the VP, Data Engineering and Reporting, this role is accountable for the strategic leadership, operational excellence, and continuous evolution of the data engineering function.

The Director will lead the enterprise agenda for data quality, analytics enablement, and actionable insights, working closely with technology teams, business leaders, governance functions, and external partners. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring strong organizational influence, execution discipline, and a commitment to measurable outcomes and continuous improvement.

We offer in return:

• The opportunity to write the history of a leading and growing multinational company
• Tailor-made training and ongoing development to help you enhance your skills in the field of online payments
• Multiple career progression opportunities in a dynamic in-house business
• Environment where product expertise, professional and personal commitment are rewarded
• Competitive remuneration and social benefits package (25 days annual paid leave, 4 days paid volunteering time a year through our Paysafe Giving initiative, health insurance, sports card, team events, company discounts, variety of soft skills, business and technical training programs)
• Fun and collaborative working atmosphere
• Flexible working model - we encourage our employees to embrace our flexible working approach. You will be expected to work from home and spend an average of three days a week at our Sofia office as part of our hybrid work model

Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Join our team that is inspired by a unified vision and propelled by passion.

Send your CV in English.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Wondering how our interview process looks like now? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/paysafeinterviews

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type with regard to ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment.  If you need any reasonable adjustments please let us know.  We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.