Axios
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Senior Analytics Engineer
Analytics EngineerAnalytics EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2017H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
110 days ago
Salary
$120K - $185K / year
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAmazon RedshiftBig QuerySQL
Job Description
• Own the gold and silver layers of the medallion architecture: define, version, and maintain business metrics and semantic models and data glossaries.
• Partner with data engineering to shape the silver layer, ensuring upstream data is complete, performant, and aligned with business needs.
• Build and maintain executive dashboards and visualizations that communicate key insights effectively.
• Define and enforce best practices for analytics modeling, data documentation, and visualization standards.
• Design and maintain data marts, metric stores, and semantic layers that enable consistent reporting across teams.
• Ensure dashboards and data models are accurate, documented, and certified for stakeholder trust.
• Partner with data scientists and ML Ops to document and integrate model outputs into analytical workflows.
• Lead initiatives to improve data quality, observability, governance, and glossary management across analytics workflows, ensuring strong, business-aligned definitions that prevent metric drift and maintain consistency over time.
• Mentor mid-level analytics engineers, helping them strengthen technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Act as a trusted advisor to product, business, and editorial leaders, ensuring analytics aligns with company priorities and drives impact.
• Ensure that analytics modeling and data structures are designed to power a self-service platform, enabling teams across Axios to explore reliable data, access well-defined metrics, and derive insights independently.
Job Requirements
- 5-8+ years in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles.
- Expert-level SQL and proficiency in transformation frameworks like dbt.
- Deep experience with BI and visualization tools (Looker, Sigma, or similar).
- Skilled at architecting curated datasets, semantic layers, and metric stores for consistency and scalability.
- Familiar with modern data stack technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of medallion architecture, data modeling, and data governance best practices.
- Familiarity with version control, testing, and CI/CD practices for analytics pipelines.
- Excellent communication and data storytelling skills—able to translate technical work into clear, strategic insights.
- Proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive adoption of analytics frameworks.
Benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
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