Manager, Analytics Engineering

Velir is hiring a Manager, Analytics Engineering to lead a team while contributing to analytics engineering solutions. The role develops team capability and standardized practices, supports client data modeling and transformation, and improves project delivery and data quality.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: You are responsible for a diverse team of analytics engineers, at different levels in their careers. You will foster their growth, and wellbeing of the team, as well as pairing with the team to solve interesting analytical challenges. You will work closely with data solutions managers and your director to ensure adequate and sustainable analytics engineering coverage across engagements
• Functional Leadership: You are responsible for working with clients to build guidelines for data modeling and transformation, measuring and tracking deliverables, and implementing analytics engineering tools to support data-driven decision-making, and develop strategies to ensure data quality and consistency with their data products
• Project Delivery: You are responsible for improving core analytics engineering deliverables by supporting internal process reviews, building guidelines for data visualization and measuring and tracking reporting deliverables to ensure client satisfaction

Requirements:

• Expert proficiency with data transformation tools (e.g., dbt)
• Expert proficiency in data modeling approaches and philosophies (e.g., Kimball, OBT)
• Intermediate / expert proficiency with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake)
• Knowledge of common data integration patterns (e.g., CDC, ELT, etc.)
• Knowledge of common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow)
• Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
• Experience with optimizing resource allocation by assessing team members' strengths and assigning tasks according to their expertise, while promoting skill growth
• Intermediate / expert proficiency with data modeling approaches and philosophies, and the tools that are used (e.g., dbt)
• At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT