Analytics Engineer

Analytics Engineer

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The Analytics Engineer is part of a remote work team that is responsible for real-time business metrics aggregation, data warehousing and querying, schema and data management as well as a number of other analytics infrastructure systems.  The incumbent, along with the remote work team, will strive to architect, develop, and deploy world-class data systems to empower every tier of our mission-driven company, as well as build scalable systems that enable self-service access to sophisticated data and analyses.


Essential Job Functions:

    • Design, build, and maintain data models foundational to the company’s internal and client-facing reporting and analytics.
    • Investigate bug root causes and implement fixes.
    • Design, build, and support a data warehouse for the company’s business.
    • Create and support various ELT scripts, jobs, and technologies.
    • Tune and optimize data storage technologies.
    • Review pull requests and test team member’s code and features.
    • Interact with data analysts and power users to define metrics to build data models.
    • Collaborate with team members to remove blockers and design new features.
    • Function as data expert to advise users on the usage of structured and unstructured data.
    • Support APIs, tools, and 3rd party products to extract data from Cloud/SaaS applications.

Education Requirements:

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Technology, Information Systems or related field (preferred)

Experience Requirements:

    • Minimum of two (2) years of applicable work experience
    • Knowledge and experience with data warehousing architecture and data modeling best practices
    • Ability to build and optimize data sets and architectures Experience with cloud base data warehousing such as Snowflake
    • Ability to clean and transform data for use in analytics and reporting
    • Exposure to one or more EL tools and a solid understanding of pipelines; understanding of third-party data integration tools such as Fivetran, Stitch
    • Ability to build processes that support data transformation, workload management, data structures, dependency and metadata
    • Expert knowledge of SQL
    • Experience with dbt
    • Excellent analytic skills associated with working on structured datasets 
    • Care deeply about data quality and governance; able to document data and definitions
    • Experience with Github and CI/CD practices
    • Experience working in an Agile software development environment that is highly collaborative
    • Ability to perform root cause analysis on external and internal processes and data to identify opportunities for improvement
    • Able to prioritize, work independently in a less structured, remote work setting
    • Team player and receptive to giving and receiving feedback, with the ability to effectively collaborate with and communicate complex topics to an audience of diverse backgrounds and skills

Experience Preferences:

    • Background and experience in higher education
    • Experience with Looker and LookML
    • Experience with Salesforce Education Data Architecture
    • Experience with Infrastructure as code such as Terraform
$90,000 - $110,000 a year
TYPICAL PHYSICAL & MENTAL DEMANDS:  Requires prolonged sitting with some bending, stooping and stretching; eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, telephone, and other office equipment.  Requires sufficient range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports on a laptop computer. Also requires moderate to intense concentration due to complexity and/or need to meet deadlines, and flexibility to readily adapt to a changing environment. 

We really want to get to know you as a person, and the unique skills and gifts that you can bring to the position.  Therefore, we highly encourage you not to use an AI program during the application/consideration process. 
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