Staff Data Engineer
About the job
- Strong experience in data engineering, data products, or business intelligence systems.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake modeling, performance optimization, role-based access control, and data sharing.
- Advanced SQL skills, including queries, window functions, and analytical optimizations.
- Expertise in ThoughtSpot or Power BI data modeling, embedding, and semantic layer design.
- Expertise in Python or PySpark for data transformations and automation.
- Experience with Airflow, Informatica IICS, or an equivalent orchestration tool.
- Experience with the Azure ecosystem, including ADLS, ADF, and related services.
- Strong understanding of data modeling patterns, including star schema, Iceberg, and medallion architecture.
- Familiarity with Kafka or Debezium for change data capture-based ingestion.
- Experience building or consuming REST or GraphQL APIs for data products.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Architect and implement scalable reporting data models in Snowflake to support ThoughtSpot and Power BI consumption.
- Design and maintain robust semantic models, data-sharing mechanisms, and APIs for downstream consumers.
- Partner with the Data Platform team to align ingestion, conformance, and consumption patterns across ADLS, Iceberg, Airflow, and IICS.
- Define and implement data governance, quality validation, and security standards across reporting pipelines.
- Build performant, reusable data transformations and APIs for reporting and dashboards.
- Integrate with Snowflake Data Sharing, webhooks, and REST or GraphQL endpoints to deliver customer-facing insights.
- Lead proof-of-concepts for new reporting frameworks and data-sharing capabilities.
- Ensure reliability, accuracy, and auditability across all data presented to end users.
- Implement data validation and quality frameworks, such as dbt tests and Great Expectations.
- Monitor data freshness and pipeline health through observability tools and Snowflake monitoring.
- Collaborate with DAAS and Platform teams to triage and resolve data quality issues.
- Partner with product managers, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Mentor engineers in data modeling, performance tuning, and best practices for Snowflake and business intelligence systems.
- Contribute to documentation, standards, and architecture reviews.
- A master's or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or Statistics is a strong plus.
- Hands-on experience with dbt, Great Expectations, or similar data quality frameworks.
- Experience embedding analytics through ThoughtSpot Everywhere or APIs.
- Knowledge of Iceberg table management, webhooks, and event-driven pipelines.
- Background in healthcare, benefits, or financial data domains.
About the company
WEX is a global B2B platform that helps other businesses manage core operations across three areas: employee benefits, fleet management, and business payments. It provides tools such as health savings and flexible spending accounts, fuel cards and telematics for fleets, and automated payment workflows to simplify financial processes. Unlike providers that focus on a single product, WEX offers an integrated suite that covers benefits administration, fleet efficiency, and payments on one platform. Its goal is to reduce operating costs and improve efficiency for customers while supporting corporate social responsibility and an inclusive workplace.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Founded
1983
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What believers are saying
- WEX reported Q2 2026 revenue of $753.5 million and raised full-year guidance.
- July 2026 SecureFuel and September 2026 cardless fueling target fraud at the pump.
- Management resumed buybacks after leverage fell to 2.9x, signaling stronger cash generation.
What critics are saying
- Yamashita v. WEX on September 15, 2026 denied dismissal over COBRA fees.
- Darby v. WEX entered discovery September 23, 2026 in a Maine FLSA case.
- Fuel-volume exposure remains existential if trucking utilization weakens before EV monetization matures.
What makes Wex unique
- WEX Bank lowers funding costs and boosts HSA economics by 50-100 basis points.
- January 2026 unified fleet fueling and public EV charging in one card.
- September 2026 cardless fueling plus Verified Vendors deepen WEX's locked-in OTR ecosystem.
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Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
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10%WEX & Mastercard launch APAC fleet payments network. Mon, 12th Oct 2026 (Today) WEX and Mastercard have formed a strategic partnership to launch a unified fleet payments network across Asia Pacific, including Australia as part of a regional rollout. The network is designed to combine fuel, vehicle maintenance, tolling and parking payments into a single system for fleet operators in a market where annual fleet-card transaction volumes are estimated at about USD $310 billion, or AUD $435 billion. The companies describe it as the first unified fleet payments network of its kind in Asia Pacific and expect it to handle billions of dollars in annual transactions as it expands across key markets in the region. Fleet operators in Asia Pacific often manage spending across separate payment systems, with fuel, maintenance, tolls and parking billed through different channels. As a result, fleet managers can be left reconciling multiple accounts and dealing with fragmented data. Regional growth The deal comes as Asia Pacific becomes the fastest-growing fleet management region globally, according to figures cited by the companies. The region accounted for 31% of global fleet-card transaction volumes in 2025 and is projected to grow 14.3% a year through 2030, they said. The partnership combines Mastercard's global payments network with WEX's fleet management business. Mastercard processed 175 billion transactions in 2025, while WEX processed more than USD $237 billion in total volume across its global commerce platform in the same year, according to the companies. WEX said the new network is intended to give fleet managers a consolidated view of traditional vehicle costs and broader business spending. It also includes spend controls, line-item reporting and support for businesses operating mixed fleets of conventional, hybrid and electric vehicles. Matt Arthur, Vice President and General Manager, APAC Mobility at WEX, said the company is seeing demand for simpler payment structures as fleet businesses face operational change and cost pressure. "In 2026, the competitive advantage for fleets is found in simplicity. WEX is already a global pioneer in travel and corporate virtual payments; by joining forces with Mastercard in this new capacity, we are bringing that same engine of innovation to the APAC mobility sector," Arthur said. "For decades, fleets have used one card for fuel and a patchwork of systems for everything else, leaving fleet managers to stitch it all together. This strategic partnership creates a smarter infrastructure that allows our customers to manage the transition to hybrid fleets and navigate economic volatility with total visibility over their operations," he said. Single account Under the proposed structure, businesses could manage fuel, maintenance, tolling, and parking through one account and receive a consolidated invoice. The companies said the approach is intended to reduce administrative work and improve oversight of vehicle-related spending. Mastercard presented the agreement as part of its push into commercial payments and transport-related transaction flows in the region. Transport remains central to the movement of people and goods across Asia Pacific, where market conditions and operating environments vary widely between countries, it said. "Transportation is a critical growth engine. It sits at the center of how people and goods move, especially in a diverse region like Asia-Pacific," said Anouska Ladds, Executive Vice President, Commercial and New Payment Flows, Asia Pacific, Mastercard. "Our collaboration with WEX is an essential example of how we scale with impact. By combining our global network with their deep industry expertise, we're helping businesses move faster, operate smarter and prepare for what's next. Together, we're setting a new standard for a future-ready mobility ecosystem," Ladds said. The partnership also extends a longer commercial relationship between the two companies. WEX said it holds the largest global share by volume in virtual card travel payments and accounts for half of all virtual card payments in the travel sector.
B2B Payments already have the controls AI agents need. By PYMNTS | October 8, 2026 Every swipe, ACH transfer or virtual card transaction carries clues about who is spending, where money is moving, what is being bought and whether something looks wrong. Those clues have remained relatively untapped, and not for lack of enterprise effort. "The core problem is work happens in one place, and payments happen in another. People are stitching that together manually, which can create delays and errors as volume grows," Ryan Taylor, SVP Product Management - Mobility & Payments at WEX, told PYMNTS during a discussion for the PYMNTS B2B Payments Event 2026 - Stopping B2B Fraud Before AI Moves the Money. Artificial intelligence, Taylor said, could eliminate some of that stitching. But the bigger opportunity is to collapse the distance between detecting what should happen and safely executing it. After all, AI systems are getting better at determining which invoice looks suspicious, where a fleet vehicle should refuel, whether a supplier price is drifting higher and which transaction deserves intervention. But identifying the right action is different from having the authority to take it, particularly when taking it means moving real corporate cash. And that could just end up turning payments from the endpoint of an enterprise workflow into its control plane. "Payment data is interesting because it really is the digital footprint of business," Taylor said. "It tells you more than just what was spent. It can tell you about what was happening in the business at that exact moment that a payment occurred." AI can make the decision; payments will decide whether it can act. The next bottleneck for enterprise AI is shaping up around permission, not intelligence. And payment infrastructure can provide something models cannot generate themselves: enforceable boundaries around what an AI system is actually allowed to do. Knowing that a driver spent $100 on fuel is accounting data. Combining the card swipe with the vehicle's location, fuel level, route and historical behavior creates operational context. An AI system can potentially determine whether the purchase is legitimate, whether the amount makes sense and whether the driver could have fueled more cheaply elsewhere. Taylor argued that effective artificial intelligence systems therefore require three elements: context, controls and clarity. He compared the process with onboarding an employee. Please add us to your preferred sources list so our news, data and interviews show up in your feed. Thanks! "You need to give them context. You need to put them in the right control environment so they can learn and grow, but not do harm. And then they also need clarity. They need to know what success looks like," Taylor said. The enterprise AI race, as a result, could eventually become partly an identity-and-permissions race: Which agent is acting? On whose behalf? What authority has it been delegated? Which counterparties can it transact with? How much can it spend? When does it need human approval? The virtual card takes on a new role in an agentic landscape. Virtual cards can already restrict merchant, amount, timing and number of transactions. In an agentic environment, those features effectively become programmable permissions for machines. "One of the main reasons virtual cards are so compelling as we look towards an agentic future is that controls are built directly into the payments themselves," Taylor said. "We don't want to give the agents open-ended access to our corporate bank accounts. We need to govern how and when they can execute payments, and how money is actually moving to manage the risk exposure." That ultimately suggests the future enterprise payments stack could function less like plumbing and more like an API for financial authority. An agent might determine that an invoice should be paid. Payment infrastructure determines whether it can pay it. That division of labor could also change how companies measure AI's financial value. The obvious efficiency case is fewer manual tasks across areas like invoice matching and reconciliation, where finance teams can automate work and redirect employees toward higher-value activities. The deeper opportunity is moving financial controls upstream. Much of corporate finance has operated retrospectively, but AI paired with real-time payment data can move controls around exceptions, fraud, and variance closer to the moment when money changes hands. Taylor describes the shift as "shrinking the distance between this insight to action." "The organizations that get the most out of AI won't be the ones that add chatbots to legacy systems," he said. "They're the ones who are going to treat payments as a core infrastructure." * Why AI's next payments bottleneck isn't intelligence. It's permission.Taylor says AI can increasingly identify what should happen next, but enterprises still need hard limits around what machines can actually do with corporate money - turning payments into the control layer between AI decisions and financial action. * Why the virtual card could become the wallet for enterprise AI.Taylor says virtual cards can restrict who gets paid, when, where and how much, giving AI agents the ability to execute transactions without giving them "open-ended access to our corporate bank accounts." * Why AI could move finance from catching mistakes to stopping them.Taylor says combining payments with operational data can shrink the distance between "insight to action," letting businesses detect fraud, invoice discrepancies and inefficient spending before money moves instead of finding problems during reconciliation. Ryan Taylor is senior vice president of Product Management, Mobility & Payments at WEX.
WEX launches Verified Vendors, connecting customers to OTR solutions. Home > business - truck driving job news > WEX launches Verified Vendors, connecting customers to OTR solutions. Reading Time: 2 minutes PORTLAND, Maine - WEX is launching Verified Vendors, a new resource that helps over-the-road (OTR) customers discover and connect with vetted third-party providers offering products and services to help them operate and grow their businesses. "Verified Vendors gives our customers a faster, more trusted way to find the third-party services that matter most to their business," said Tim Hampton, senior vice president and general manager for OTR at WEX. "Instead of navigating a fragmented market on their own, carriers and owner-operators can start their search from a curated set of providers WEX brings together in one convenient location. It's a natural extension of how WEX supports customers beyond our own products." Verified Vendors. Through Verified Vendors, WEX OTR customers can explore curated partner offerings and connect with providers through a streamlined referral experience all in one place. According to WEX, third-party value-added services, from equipment financing and toll reconciliation to hotel booking and navigation, are essential for managing and expanding OTR trucking operations, but finding and accessing vetted providers is fragmented and time-consuming. The Verified Vendors program is designed to close that gap by giving customers a centralized place to learn about relevant solutions and understand their benefits and eligibility before connecting with a provider. * BestPass - Toll transponders * Engine - Hotel and travel reservations * MapUp - Toll reconciliation * TFS Financial - Equipment financing * TruckerPath - Navigation * SCI - Terminal Hardware and Software Program expansion. Customers can access Verified Vendors at no cost and submit requests to connect with participating providers directly through the WEX platform. The vendor lineup is expected to grow over time as WEX continues to add providers based on customer needs and program performance. "Driven by mutual trust, the joint effort between SCI and WEX enhances market penetration while ensuring maximum customer satisfaction and retention," said Tal Ezra, CEO at SCI. "Fleet managers and drivers get one card, one system and one clear picture of their fuel, and Verified Vendors makes it easier than ever to get there. It's a great step forward for everyone involved." A trusted resource. According to WEX, for fleets and owner-operators, that means less time spent independently researching vendors and more confidence in knowing where to start. For WEX, Verified Vendors creates a scalable way to deepen its relationships with industry providers and extend its role as a trusted resource for carriers across the industry. "Fleets should know what every trip costs and have the tools to protect their margins," said Brad Alt, head of sales for MapUp. "Our partnership with WEX brings that vision to life across MapUp's platform; from route planning, fuel optimization, driver navigation, to GPS-based real-time toll billing and auditing, helping them decide where to fuel, guide drivers on the road, recover costs faster and catch overcharge. As more fleets turn to us to connect these workflows, WEX's Verified Vendors portal makes it easier to access the right capabilities through a relationship they already trust, with one shared goal: making every trip more predictable and profitable." WEX OTR customers can begin exploring Verified Vendors today by reaching out to their WEX sales representative or by clicking here. The launch of Verified Vendors comes on the heel of its recent announcement regarding the launch of cardless fuel payments for OTR customers. Dana Guthrie is an award-winning journalist who has been featured in multiple newspapers, books and magazines across the globe. She is currently based in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.
Wex adds cardless fuel payments for over-the-road customers. A new fuel card feature for Wex customers offers convenience and security. September 23, 2026 2 min to read Wex has launched cardless fuel payments for its over-the-road customers. The new capability lets drivers generate a secure, single-use fuel code in the Wex CardControl app, so they can fuel up quickly without a physical fuel card. Physical fuel cards can be subject to fuel card fraud. Lost, stolen, shared, or skimmed cards can lead to unauthorized charges, driver downtime, and added administrative burden. Cardless fuel payments are designed to close those gaps, giving drivers and fleet managers one of the most secure ways available to pay at the pump. Fraud at the fuel pump. "Fraud at the pump doesn't just cost fleets money, it costs them driver uptime and hours their teams don't have to spare replacing cards and chasing down unauthorized charges," said Tim Hampton, senior vice president and general manager for Wex Over-the-Road business. "Wex built cardless payments to reduce that exposure without asking fleets to change how they already manage spend, as it seamlessly integrates into their existing Wex card rather than replacing it." Ad Loading... At launch, Wex OTR cardless gives fleets: * Reduced Fraud Exposure: Each fuel code is single-use, location-specific, and expires after a short window, virtually eliminating the exposure window a lost or stolen physical card leaves open. * Faster Driver Onboarding: Cardless simplifies the logistics of card distribution. Once new drivers receive their card, they can be authorized to fuel within minutes. * Same Spend Control & Visibility: Cardless fuel codes run through a fleet's existing Wex card program, so the controls and reporting fleet managers already use carry over without disrupting existing workflows. * Flexible, Reliable Fueling: Drivers aren't dependent on an app or data connection at the pump itself; physical cards and cardless codes can be used interchangeably, with limits shared across both. Availability of Wex OTR cardless solution. Wex OTR cardless is live now at Pilot, One9, Love's, TA, Petro Stopping Centers, TA Express, and Maverik, with other networks rolling out through 2026. Cardless payment functionally also is available via the Wex application programming interface (API) so customers can embed it in their own driver apps The capability is available to Wex OTR customers at no additional cost and can be enabled by contacting a Wex account manager. Cargo Theft's New Playbook: Strategic Fraud, Double Brokering, and Cybercrime Hit Trucking
WEX details AI, pricing and buyback push at Deutsche Bank Conference. WEX (NYSE:WEX) Chief Financial Officer Jagtar Narula outlined the company's growth priorities across mobility, corporate payments and benefits at the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference, emphasizing pricing actions, product investment, artificial intelligence initiatives and stock repurchases. Narula said investors often view WEX as a complex company because of its operations in fleet payments, online travel and corporate payments, and employee benefits. He described the business instead as a payments platform applied to three distinct markets. In mobility, WEX provides commercial fuel-payment tools designed to help customers prevent fraud and optimize driver routes. Its corporate payments operation processes payments for high-volume sectors including online travel agencies, while its benefits unit supports health savings accounts, COBRA, flexible spending accounts and related products. Mobility trends, pricing and customer growth. Discover more Get Free Report Tracking Market News Political News Subscription On the mobility business, Narula said freight-market conditions have improved primarily on the supply side. He said regulations under the current administration have reduced the supply of drivers and trucks, contributing to higher spot prices and improved profitability for trucking customers. That improvement supports WEX's credit performance, he said. However, Narula said WEX still needs to see further improvement in demand for goods moving through the economy before it sees a more meaningful change in same-store sales. The company tracks indicators including housing starts and manufacturing indexes for signs of that demand recovery. Narula said pricing remains a continuing focus. He noted that WEX implemented approximately $70 million of pricing actions, predominantly in mobility, during the 2023-2024 period. The company has discussed about $15 million in additional pricing-related revenue expected during the second half of the year, including the third and fourth quarters. "We still think there's a significant opportunity to enhance pricing," Narula said, adding that the company is evaluating product value, customer retention and attrition as part of its approach. In the second quarter, mobility revenue excluding fuel-price effects grew about 3%, according to Narula. He said reduced late-fee incidence from higher fuel prices represented about a two-percentage-point drag. WEX accelerated planned pricing actions to offset that headwind, he said. Narula also cited approximately one percentage point of second-quarter growth from BP coming online, one point from pricing and one point from organic growth. He said recent customer wins and investments in sales are expected to support growth going forward. Late-fee trends have moderated and remain in line with company expectations, although he said it was still early to draw conclusions. Discover more NASDAQ Stock Market Following Political News Building Stock Portfolios Corporate payments focuses on direct AP and embedded opportunities. In corporate payments, Narula highlighted 20% volume growth in direct accounts payable during the second quarter and said WEX expects mid-teens direct AP growth in the second half. About two-thirds of direct AP volume growth in the quarter came from new sales, he said. The company has spent more than a year building its go-to-market approach for direct AP, including hiring and ramping salespeople and targeting midsize customers that can be implemented relatively quickly. Narula said the offering has been resonating with customers. WEX also sees a strong pipeline for embedded payments, although implementations have at times taken longer than expected. Narula said the delays have been related to technical integration rather than customer decision-making. Because embedded-payment products integrate deeply into customer workflows, implementation can take longer on either the customer's side or WEX's side, he said. That deep integration may also make customers stickier once they are live, Narula added. Benefits business and bank advantages. Within benefits, Narula said reported SaaS account growth in the second quarter was affected by a roughly three-point drag from factors that did not reflect the underlying health of the business. Sunsetting legacy, low-revenue products accounted for about two points of the impact, while lapping the prior-year implementation of the UAW trust accounted for roughly one point. Excluding those factors, SaaS account growth was in the mid-5% range, he said. Narula said the company sees a strong sales pipeline during its seasonal peak in the third and fourth quarters, supported by product enhancements, direct sales and partner channels. He also said expanded eligibility for certain retiree-oriented health savings accounts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act increases WEX's addressable market. The benefit is expected to develop over time through the company's partner channel rather than its direct-sales organization. Discover more Government Policy Analysis Political Issues Analysis Dividend Payment Information Narula described WEX Bank, a Utah-based industrial bank regulated by the FDIC, as a competitive advantage. The bank provides access to lower-cost funding sources, he said, and serves as a custodian for HSA deposits. Using WEX Bank instead of a third-party bank can improve the company's earnings on those deposits by 50 to 100 basis points, according to Narula. He said the bank also provides regulatory infrastructure and allows WEX to act as both issuer and processor, creating a single accountable provider for customers. AI, margins and capital allocation. Narula said WEX is pursuing AI opportunities in products as well as operations. The company is using its transaction and customer data to develop insights tools for fleet customers, benefits users and claims-related functions. He said WEX expects eventually to monetize AI-enabled products after establishing product-market fit. AI has also increased product innovation velocity, which Narula defined as the time from deciding to build a product or feature to delivering it to customers. He said WEX has reduced headcount since 2023 while accelerating innovation and bringing more products to market. The company expects to improve operating margin by 75 basis points for 2026 and by more than 100 basis points in the second half on a year-over-year basis, Narula said. He attributed the expected improvement to scalable product investments, operating leverage and AI-driven efficiency. On capital allocation, Narula said WEX reached its target of reducing leverage below three times a quarter earlier than anticipated and has restarted share repurchases. The company expects to direct the vast majority of adjusted free cash flow toward buybacks, while continuing to evaluate acquisitions that could improve its strategic position and generate risk-adjusted returns equal to or better than repurchasing shares. About WEX (NYSE:WEX). WEX Inc is a global financial technology company specializing in business payment solutions for fleet, travel, and corporate payments. The company delivers software-driven platforms and card-based services that help businesses automate payment processes, manage expenses and improve operational efficiency across a range of industries, including transportation, healthcare and government. Founded in 1983 as Wright Express in Portland, Maine, the company began by offering fuel card services to trucking fleets.