Velir
Bringing you extraordinary data-driven digital marketing capabilities.
Senior Analytics Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
91 days ago
Salary
$135K - $150K / year
Bachelor DegreeEnglishAirflowApacheBig QueryCloudPythonSQL
Job Description
• Lead complex technical implementations, shaping data architecture and transformation pipelines that prioritize performance, maintainability, and reusability.
• Drive adoption of best practices for dbt development, testing, and CI/CD while mentoring peers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Contribute to internal tooling, shared dbt packages, and scalable frameworks that raise the standard of analytics engineering across teams and clients.
• Partner with analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to translate complex and often ambiguous business requirements into well-structured data models and semantic layers.
• Serve as a technical and strategic advisor in cross-functional planning—balancing stakeholder requirements, data governance, and long-term scalability.
• Model strong communication and mentorship, helping other AEs and cross-functional teammates develop clarity and confidence in data architecture decisions.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of analytics engineering workstreams, ensuring solutions are reliable, well-documented, and aligned with client objectives.
• Anticipate and address systemic data quality or modeling issues, implementing durable solutions that improve trust and efficiency across the stack.
• Enable sustainable project delivery by optimizing performance, reducing technical debt, and contributing to shared standards that scale across teams.
Job Requirements
- Programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python)
- Business intelligence platforms (e.g., PowerBI, Sigma)
- Expert proficiency in dbt is required.
- Expert proficiency in data modeling approaches and philosophies (e.g., Kimball, OBT)
- Expert proficiency with at least one cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Expert proficiency with version control and git.
- Knowledge of common data integration patterns (e.g., CDC, ELT, etc.)
- Knowledge of common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Dagster, Apache Airflow)
- Ability to communicate with professional proficiency in English, verbally and in writing.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Excellent benefits