Senior Software Engineer, Analytical Engineering

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Job Description:

The Senior Software Engineer of Analytics Engineering provides hands-on technical expertise to develop, deploy, and maintain both core data models and core data layer. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on building robust, scalable, and well-documented data models and pipelines, while also enabling self-service analytics across the organization.

We are seeking a highly skilled Analytical Engineer to join our team. This role bridges the gap between data engineering and data analytics, focusing on transforming raw data into structured, business-ready datasets. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing analytical workflows, ensuring that data is clean, well-modeled, and optimized for business intelligence and decision-making. This role requires strong technical expertise in data transformation, modeling, and pipeline optimization (preferably using DBT). Additionally, a successful candidate is an excellent communicator who can effectively explain complex technical information to a wide variety of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties

·       Collaborate with the business to gather requirements and deliver data-products to enable data-informed decision-making.

·       As a member of the team, develop a centralized data-layer to deliver data-products at scale to the business.

·       Use ELT framework to transform raw or semi-structured data into a contextualized data model (preferably using DBT), proposing architectural solutions (preferably AWS) to drive efficiency.

·       Partner with AI and ML teams to deliver the data skeleton for AI-enabled internal tools.

·       Work within DBT to deliver documented, tested, and DRY (“don’t-repeat-yourself”) code.

·       Follow analytical lifecycle process and quality frameworks to deliver accurate data to internal consumers on-time.

·       Focus on innovative solutions to increase speed-to-delivery and accelerate business decision-making.

·       Independently gather business requirements, establish measurable outcomes, and create analytical product plan translating complexity for various stakeholders.

Qualifications/Degree/Certification/Licensure

·       Computer Science, Physics, Math, Data Science, Pharmaceutical Science, or Engineering area of study preferred

·       Minimum of 4-7 years of analytical engineering, data modeling or a similar role

·       Hands-on experience with dbt and Databricks

·       Proficiency with SQL, SPARK and Python

·       Knowledge of data engineering tools (AWS, Airflow) and visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker)

·       Experience scripting (e.g. R)

·       Experience with version control (e.g. Git, SVN) and Agile development

·       Proven analytical and problem-solving ability

·       Expertise gathering requirements to understand business needs and define technical solutions

·       Excellent communications and presentation skills.  Ability to explain complex analyses and outcomes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

·       Familiarity with AI, ML, predictive modeling a plus

·       Familiarity with our toolkit desired: work information process tools (JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS suites); data-related tools (Oracle, Redshift, PostgreSQL, CDP Impala, Athena)

·       Proven experience in guiding large, complex projects that involve collaborating with team members from various functions.

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