Lead Analytics Engineer – Data Team

Newsela

Lead Analytics Engineer for Newsela's data team applying data engineering best practices. Responsible for data transformation, mentoring engineers, and creating visualizations.

Posted 4/29/2026contractRemote • 🇲🇽 MexicoSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonSQLTableauTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We are looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment.
Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and  data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLPythondata integrity testing frameworksdbtdata modelingdata transformationdata visualizationdata analysisperformance optimizationdata engineering best practices

Soft Skills

mentorshipautonomyproactivitystakeholder collaborationcommunication