The Senior Analytics Engineer II will transform data for self-service analytics, ensuring quality and reliability in data models, while mentoring junior team members and collaborating with stakeholders.
Articulate is looking for a Sr. Analytics Engineer to join our amazing Data team! As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll transform the data landing in our data warehouse into self-serve data artifacts.
The goal of this role is to help our cross-functional data consumers find the right data set for their analysis and answer their questions quickly through a self-service data platform. While the role is primarily responsible for building the data foundation for reporting and analysis, it is expected to provide necessary support in building and improving Articulate’s data literacy and infrastructure.
What You'll Do:
- Provide flexible, trustworthy data models by transforming data from multiple sources with DBT, testing for quality, deploying to visualization tools such as Looker or Tableau, and publishing documentation, enabling self-service analytics for business users and faster insights for data analysts.
- Collaborate directly with stakeholders to define problems and determine requirements for a solution.
- Set and maintain best practices for data models and processes, including project architecture and QA.
- Proactively identify gaps or design flaws in our data models, and bring recommendations for how to fix them.
- Own documentation of our tools and data, both for our team and for external usersLead discovery on data tools and infrastructure, including setting goals for tooling, continuous analysis of existing tooling, and exploring new tools and features we may adopt.
- Participate as a technical leader in project planning, helping to create well-defined tasks to address data initiatives.
- Mentor more junior members of the data team.
- Represent the data team in some technical architecture and planning conversations.
- Identify and share data risks and dependencies in these contexts.
- Make recommendations for data collection and upstream data structure to support downstream data quality.
- Support a culture of data-driven decision-making across the organization.
What You Should Have:
- 8+ years of experience in data or analytics roles, with at least 5 in analytics engineering, preferably within a fast-paced tech company or data-driven organization.
- Expert in end-to-end data workflows, from data collection to analysis and presentation, with most expertise in data modeling.
- Confident in translating raw data to reusable, business-friendly data models.
- Proven experience owning and leading the creation of reliable, flexible data models in an enterprise data warehouse, balancing completeness and performance with speed.
- Expertise in SQL (writing and analyzing complex queries), Data Build Tool (dbt), Looker/Tableau (defining data models and measures).
- Experience building semantic layers using dbt, Looker, or Snowflake’s semantic tables.
- Ability to write complex SQL, run ad-hoc data discovery, and build data models; experience optimizing queries and models for performance and cost.
- Proficiency with orchestration tools like Airflow, Prefect or Dagster and with ETL tools like Fivetran or Stitch.
- Comfortable breaking down large projects into smaller components, delegating tasks to more junior team members and creating clear, well-defined tasks to address critical data initiatives.
- Excellent communication skills; ability to translate complex business questions into easy-to-use data models.
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with event-based models or product telemetry for SaaS product usage analysis
- Experience in Agile or Kanban workflow
- Experience with Salesforce (or similar Enterprise CRMs), Marketo
- Basic understanding of data security and compliance requirements
About us
Articulate Global, LLC, is the leading SaaS provider of creator platforms for online workplace training. Founded by Adam Schwartz in 2002, Articulate provides creator tools and services that make it simple for enterprises and SMBs to develop, deliver, and analyze online workplace training that’s engaging and effective. Increasingly, organizations must reskill employees for ever-changing remote and hybrid work environments, create learning cultures that attract and retain employees in a tight labor market, and use training to build more equitable, empowering, and engaging workplaces. Articulate helps organizations address these critical business needs with its creator platform for workplace training. Articulate 360—a suite of creator tools for online courses—was named the 7th most-loved product in the world by TrustRadius in 2021. And Rise—an all-in-one online training system that makes online training easy to create, enjoyable to take, and simple to manage—is the first creator platform for SMBs and departments within the enterprise. Articulate has more than 118,000 customers in 170 countries and counts all 100 of the Fortune 100 companies as customers.
Named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces 2022 and a leader in building a human-centered organization, Articulate is guided by a commitment to provide the best value to customers, do right by employees, and create an equitable, empowering workplace for all. As a human-centered organization, we honor people’s humanity knowing that each person’s unique history, vulnerabilities, and social location inform how we show up with one another. We embrace our connectedness, aware that what we do and say impacts others. We give each other grace because we are all works in progress, learning and evolving every day. And we take responsibility for ourselves and are serious about our accountability to each other. In all we do, we strive to create an equitable, sustainable, and empowering workplace while we drive results for the business and make a positive impact in the world. Read more about our values here.
Articulate Global, LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All employment decisions at Articulate are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications directly related to the job, without regard to any protected characteristic or class, including, but not limited to, race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law. Qualified candidates with criminal histories will be considered for this role in a manner consistent with applicable law. Articulate is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation related to the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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Top Skills
Airflow
Dagster
Dbt
Fivetran
Looker
Prefect
SQL
Stitch
Tableau
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