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Contractor: Lead Analytics Engineer - Data Team

Roles & Responsibilities

  • 8+ years of experience working with data in a software environment
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python; experience with data catalog tooling, semantic layer tooling, and data integrity testing frameworks; dbt orchestration
  • Experience with DAG tooling (Dagster or Airflow), Tableau, and cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform)
  • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with deep domain knowledge of data systems

Requirements:

  • Apply data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data, delivering clean datasets to end users
  • Build and maintain composable data models, optimize SQL query performance, and provide expert code reviews and mentoring to other data engineers
  • Transform raw data into business insights by partnering with stakeholders, developing analyses, and creating data visualizations to enable data exploration
  • Implement data quality checks and automated testing, apply CI/CD practices to analytics code, and contribute to data infrastructure automation and large-scale migrations

Job description

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Lead Analytics Engineering Data Team

  • We are looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
  • Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
  • You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
  • You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
  • You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
  • You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
  • You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:Data Modeling and Transformation

    • Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.
    • Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.
    • Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

    • Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.
    • Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

    • Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
    • Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.
    • Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

    • Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
    • Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why you're a great fit:

  • 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment. 
  • Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and  data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
  • You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
  • Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
  • Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits. 

 

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