Senior Analytics Engineer
Velir
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $135,000 - $150,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AirflowApacheBigQueryCloud
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
dbtdata modelingcloud data warehouseSnowflakeBigQueryversion controlgitdata integration patternsCDCELT
Soft skills
communicationmentorshiptechnical guidancecollaborationproblem-solving