Senior Analytics Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote

Reporting To: Adam Shepard

Description

We’re hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to build the modeling layer that the rest of the business runs on. This role will be responsible for the transformation layer as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse. You will design and build trustworthy models that finance, compliance, and our product depend on. You will help architect a scalable foundation and set patterns for the team as we drive advanced analytics and reporting across the organization. You will report to the VP, Data.

What you'll do

Own the transformation layer, including dimensional models, tests, and documentation, as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse
Turn business questions into durable models. Not all work arrives fully specified, so you’ll turn ambiguity into structure and set patterns the team builds against.
Partner with finance, compliance, and product to define requirements, data definitions, and what “correct” means in our business context
Monitor what you build, catching and resolving or escalating issues before our stakeholders notice
Go a layer down into data ingestion, orchestration, or warehouse configuration when warranted, or go a layer up into analysis and decision support when needed

What we're looking for

7+ years of combined experience across analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics roles with substantial modeling ownership
Strong analytical SQL skills - complex joins, window functions, performance-aware queries
Data modeling / dimensional modeling fluency - you can design schemas from fuzzy requirements, not just query what exists
Transformation framework experience - dbt preferred, with Dataform, SQLMesh, or equivalent acceptable
Cloud data warehouse experience - Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent
Orchestration engine familiarity - Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalent
BI / Visualization layer familiarity - Metabase, Hex, Looker, Tableau, or similar
Engineering hygiene - Git, CI/CD, testing, documentation
Stakeholder range - you can sit with a finance or compliance lead, ask questions to get to requirements, and leave with a definition you can build against

You don’t need depth in all of these, but if the work sounds like yours, please apply.

Bonus experience we’re also interested in:

Platform-level experience - working with tools like Terraform / infra-as-code, DMS / CDC, data lake patterns, and data observability
Experience with financial, payments, or otherwise regulated data - it shortens the learning ramp.

What you'll do

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