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Data Engineer II

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on building and maintaining analytical applications that support various departments at Akamai. You will collaborate with business partners to define reporting standards and improve the analytics strategy, ensuring that insights are effectively communicated and utilized.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience leading reporting, dashboarding and analytics delivery projects.
  • Good understanding of data models & business processes with ERP/enterprise systems like Salesforce, Oracle, Workday.
  • Strong experience with RDBMS like Oracle with advanced SQL, and building reports and dashboards using tools like Tableau, Power BI.
  • Good communication skills, including translating business needs into insights.
  • Preferred: Be naturally curious and constantly adapting and learning new things.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business and application/data teams to define reporting requirements, KPIs and metrics.
  • Lead the building and maintaining of semantic models, data marts and a catalog of certified reports and datasets.
  • Perform data analysis, and design and build dashboards and self-service reports for business needs.
  • Work on continuous improvement of the reporting and analytics strategy, including report performance, usability and adoption.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Curiosity

About the company

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Akamai Technologies

  • Cybersecurity
  • XLarge
  • 5,001–10,000
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Every day, billions of people around the world connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play the latest video games, log into mobile banking apps, learn remotely, share videos with friends, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 20 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world. With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Our leading security, compute, and delivery solutions are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. Devoted, determined problem-solvers who share a passion for technology, we’re always pushing ground-breaking ideas and driving innovation. Want to power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges? Be part of an amazing team. Let’s connect: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akamai-technologies Twitter: https://twitter.com/Akamai Blog: https://www.akamai.com/blog

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Job description

Data Engineer II

Join our Data Engineering, Analytics & Intelligence team

The Data Engineering, Analytics & Intelligence team is responsible for partnering, building and maintaining analytical applications working with various departments like Sales, Marketing, Services, Finance & HR. 

As a Data Engineer II you will be responsible for:

  • Partner with business and application/data teams to define reporting requirements, KPIs and metrics, and coordinate with teams to implement and enforce reporting standards
  • Understand business processes and lead the building & maintaining of semantic models, data marts and a catalog of certified reports and datasets
  • Understand the latest industry trends in analytics and BI and work with business partners to implement them
  • Be a go-to person for questions around reports, metric definitions and business processes
  • Lead development activities like performing data analysis, and designing and building dashboards and self-service reports for business needs
  • Work on continuous improvement of the reporting and analytics strategy, including report performance, usability and adoption, based on needs

Do what you love!
To be successful in this role you will:

  • Have 2+ years over all experience leading reporting, dashboarding and analytics delivery projects
  • Have a good understanding of data models & business processes with ERP/enterprise systems like Salesforce, Oracle, Workday
  • Have strong experience with RDBMS like Oracle with advanced SQL, and building reports and dashboards using tools like Tableau, Power BI
  • Have good communication skills, including translating business needs into insights, while working within a flexible enterprise environment
  • Be naturally curious and constantly adapting and learning new things
  • Be a self-starter, proactively taking the initiative to solving problems

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible working options in this role, please discuss your requirements with the recruiter when you apply.

Working with us

At Akamai, we’re curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you’ll thrive here.

Working for you

At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

  • Your health
  • Your finances
  • Your family
  • Your time at work
  • Your time pursuing other endeavors

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.

About us

Innovating on a global scale, we deliver our customers a fast, smart and secure intelligent edge platform. Working against a backdrop of digital collaboration, our highly skilled teams drive progressive solutions that have the scope to transform entertainment, business, and life in ways that we have yet to imagine.

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