Job location: Remote in India About the role: We are looking for an Incentive Automation Lead to own the end-to-end accuracy, automation, and continuous improvement of Sun King 's agent and staff incentive and commission systems. This role sits at the intersection of data, business logic, and stakeholder collaboration — requiring someone who can translate complex incentive rules into reliable automated workflows, identify and resolve discrepancies proactively, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. The ideal candidate brings problem-solving skills, a structured approach to investigating data issues, a data quality-first mindset, and the ability to build trust with field teams and business stakeholders by ensuring incentive outcomes are fair, timely, and well understood.
What you will be expected to do
- Own the design, maintenance, and continuous improvement of incentive calculation pipelines, ensuring accuracy and consistency across all agent incentive outputs.
- Own the end-to-end automation of the incentive pipeline.
- Automate every incentive process to make it event based and not schedule based.
- Translate business incentive rules and policy changes into automated, auditable data workflows in collaboration with the Data Engineering team.
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to proactively detect anomalies in commission outputs before they impact agents.
- Implement rigorous quality assurance frameworks and reconciliation dashboards to ensure 100% accuracy and auditability for every dollar disbursed.
- Architect the system to handle multi-line-of-business (Phones, Inverters, LPG) and multi-country complexities without increasing manual overhead.
- Serve as the final gatekeeper for business logic changes, partner with Sales and Finance VPs to translate new commission structures into scalable technical requirements.
- Work with Finance, Operations, Payroll managers and field management teams to understand incentive program requirements and ensure data solutions reflect ground-level realities.
- Equip the teams with right tools and information to handle escalations from the agents.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Finance, Computer Science or any quantitative fields.
- 3+ years of experience in a data analytics engineer, business intelligence, or incentive operations role.
- Good proficiency in Python and SQL for data extraction, transformation, and validation.
- Proficiency in Git and Bitbucket and airflow concepts and usage.
- Demonstrated ability to investigate complex data discrepancies, form hypotheses, and drive issues to resolution
- Experience working with BI tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Redshift) and translating business into data models.
- Good stakeholder ma