[Remote] Analytics Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GSD Search, LLC is a technology-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences through data and innovation. The Senior Analytics Engineer will bridge data engineering and business decision-making, responsible for designing scalable data models and building reliable analytics pipelines to empower business leaders with informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data models that support marketing, product, and customer analytics
- Develop and optimize analytics pipelines that transform raw data into trusted business datasets
- Build dashboards and reporting solutions that provide clear visibility into customer behavior, marketing performance, and business outcomes
- Partner directly with product managers, marketing teams, and business stakeholders to understand business questions and translate them into technical solutions
- Investigate trends, validate metrics, and explain the "why" behind changes in business performance through thoughtful analysis and deep understanding of the underlying data
- Ensure the quality, accuracy, and consistency of analytics by maintaining strong data governance and documentation practices
- Establish best practices for data modeling, semantic layers, naming conventions, and analytics engineering standards
- Mentor junior analytics engineers while promoting engineering excellence and a culture of continuous improvement
- Leverage AI tools to improve productivity while maintaining a strong understanding of the underlying data, business logic, and analytical methodology
- Work independently through ambiguous business problems by identifying stakeholders, gathering requirements, and delivering scalable solutions with minimal guidance
- Collaborate with engineering teams to support modern cloud-based analytics infrastructure and evolving data architecture
Skills
- Advanced experience with SQL
- Advanced experience with Snowflake
- Advanced experience with Python
- Advanced experience with Git
- Advanced experience with Data Modeling
- Advanced experience with Data Warehousing
- Advanced experience with Data Visualization
- Advanced experience with Coalesce
- Advanced experience with Airflow and/or Dagster
- Advanced experience with Semantic Layers
- Advanced experience with Data Contracts
- Advanced experience with CI/CD for Data
- Advanced experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) preferred, AWS or Azure experience also considered
- Experience working with marketing analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Google Ads, Segment, or similar technologies is highly desirable
- 4 to 7 years of Analytics Engineering or related experience
- Proven success designing scalable data models and analytics solutions
- Experience building dashboards and reporting solutions for business users
- Strong understanding of SQL transformations and how business metrics are derived from raw data
- Experience partnering directly with business stakeholders to answer questions, validate metrics, and explain technical concepts
- Experience working in fast-paced, highly collaborative environments with evolving priorities
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve complex problems with minimal direction
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Comfortable presenting findings, answering follow-up questions, and building credibility with business stakeholders
- Naturally curious with a desire to understand not just what the data says, but why
- Strong ownership mentality with the confidence to work through ambiguity and solve problems independently
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to build strong relationships across engineering, product, and business teams
- Passion for continuous learning and proactively adopting new technologies, including AI
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business priorities in a fast-moving environment
- Experience supporting marketing analytics, digital product analytics, or customer acquisition reporting
- Experience in insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry
- Experience working within modern cloud-based data platforms and architectures
- Familiarity with AI-powered development workflows and using AI as a productivity accelerator
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and helping establish engineering standards
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