Individual Giving Data Engineer

Builds the cloud data platforms and integrations behind WFP’s global individual-giving programme, evolving its warehouse, pipelines, observability and reporting foundations so fundraising, CRM and payment data remain reliable, scalable and ready for new markets and channels.

Department: Private Sector Partnerships, Individual Giving Tech and Operations

• Implement data strategy and architecture for the individual-giving ecosystem
• Design warehouse schemas, data models and structured data layers
• Build scalable ELT pipelines across fundraising, CRM, payment and marketing systems
• Integrate agency feeds, vendor platforms and new acquisition channels
• Implement freshness, completeness, consistency and anomaly monitoring
• Resolve root causes of warehouse issues and build resilient self-healing pipelines
• Maintain data lineage, dictionaries and privacy-compliant handling practices
• Provide reliable datasets and reusable structures for reporting and analytics
• Create testing environments that validate data flows across operational systems
• Translate fundraising requirements into technical specifications and mentor colleagues

• University degree in computer science, data science, statistics, information systems or a related technical field
• Four to five years of data-engineering, data-platform or analytics-engineering experience
• Production experience building and maintaining ETL or ELT workflows
• Experience designing multi-system integrations through APIs, middleware, managed services or bespoke engineering
• Strong SQL proficiency and Python or similar scripting experience
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms, particularly Redshift and AWS services
• Understanding of data modelling, governance and quality management
• Excellent written and spoken English

• Fully remote 11-month regular consultancy with Rome as the administrative duty station. The role reports to the Head of Individual Giving Technology and Operations.