Role: Data Engineering and Data Analyst (exp in SAP Data)
Location: Boston, MA
Type: Contract
Duration:6-12 months
Consultant will work across Google Big Query and/or Snowflake to develop analytics-ready datasets and power dashboards in Looker, Tableau, and/or Qlik Sense.
Responsibilities
Data engineering
- Build and maintain pipelines from SaaS tools, operational databases, APIs, and flat files into BigQuery/Snowflake.
- Design curated datasets and semantic-ready tables/views; improve query performance (partitioning/clustering, pruning, aggregation strategies).
- Set up data observability: load monitoring, failure alerts, and incident/runbook documentation.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures and data discrepancies; conduct root-cause analysis and remediation.
- Analytics
- Gather requirements, define metrics/KPIs, and translate business needs into trusted reporting.
- Build and optimize dashboards in Looker/Tableau/Qlik Sense with strong usability, performance, and governance.
- Enable self-service: certified datasets, standardized dimensions/measures, consistent metric definitions.
- Provide ad-hoc analysis and recommendations; communicate insights clearly to stakeholders.
Required qualifications
- Strong SQL and hands-on experience with BigQuery and/or Snowflake.
- Experience with at least one BI tool: Looker, Tableau, or Qlik Sense (multi-tool experience preferred).
- Experience working with SAP data.
- Solid data modeling fundamentals (dimensional modeling, metric grain, conformed dimensions).
- Experience with pipeline/orchestration concepts (scheduling, retries, idempotency, incremental loading).
- Strong stakeholder management skills: can drive clarity and deliver iteratively