CareerDev4AI

Analytics Engineer

Builds the modelled data layer that turns raw events and business definitions into reliable, tested, reusable metrics for every team.

Data & Analytics Mid level $95,000 - $150,000 / year

What the role involves

  • Model raw data into clean, documented and tested transformation layers
  • Implement business metric definitions once so every team reports the same number
  • Maintain data pipelines for freshness, correctness and cost
  • Partner with analysts and stakeholders to define and version core metrics
  • Build self-service datasets so teams can answer their own questions

Core skills

  • SQL (level 5/5)
  • Data Modelling & Warehousing (level 4/5)
  • dbt (Data Build Tool) (level 4/5)
  • Data Quality & Testing (level 4/5)
  • Version Control for Data (Git) (level 4/5)
  • Business Metric Definition (level 4/5)

Preferred skills

  • Python for Data Analysis
  • Airflow / Orchestration
  • Cloud Warehousing (BigQuery/Snowflake)
  • Stakeholder Management

Tools

dbtSnowflakeBigQueryAirflowSQLGitLookerDatabricks

Experience expected

2-4 years in data engineering, analytics engineering or BI development

Projects that prove the role

  • Version-controlled metric layer that eliminated three competing revenue definitions
  • Data quality framework catching silent pipeline breakage before reporting
  • Self-service dataset adopted by eight business teams

Evidence to collect

  • A documented dbt project with tests and lineage
  • Before/after figures on pipeline failures or data incidents
  • A metric definition doc reviewed and signed off by stakeholders

What the interview covers

  • Modelling a slowly changing dimension correctly
  • Designing tests that catch meaningful data problems, not noise
  • Resolving a disagreement about metric definitions between teams
  • Tracing a wrong number in a report back to its source

How the role progresses

  • BI Analyst
  • Analytics Engineer
  • Senior Analytics Engineer
  • Lead Analytics Engineer
  • Head of Data

Certifications that carry weight

  • dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

Related roles

  • data-analyst
  • data-scientist
  • business-intelligence-analyst

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