Analytics Engineer

Harnham
London, UK
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
£104,000.0 - £117,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Airflow Data Analysis Data Systems Performance Tuning Standard Sql SQL Databases Snowflake Looker Analytics Data Pipelines

Job description

You’ll join the data team to lead the design and delivery of a new semantic layer in Looker. You’ll work with stakeholders across departments to translate business needs into performant, trusted data models using LookML and dbt. You’ll also play a critical role in shaping the self-serve analytics experience and ensuring the platform is intuitive, documented, and cost-efficient.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Ingest and migrate data sets into their AWS Snowflake platform.
  • Designing and implementing dbt models that power clean, consistent metrics.
  • Buidl out orchestartion pipelines using Airflow
  • Creating clear documentation for dashboards, metrics, and models.
  • Ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency across Snowflake
  • Supporting a stakeholder-first approach to data usability and access.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience operating within Snowflake environments
  • Airflow for data orchestration.
  • Proficiency in SQL and dbt, with a strong understanding of data modeling best practices.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex needs into elegant data solutions.
  • Focus on usability, documentation, and data clarity.
  • Comfortable working independently in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

  • Experience rebuilding or refactoring a Looker instance from scratch.
  • Familiarity with Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimization.
  • Experience scaling analytics across a cross-functional organisation, * sql
  • modeling
  • airflow
  • snowflake
  • dbt

About the company

This is a high-growth consumer business committed to data-informed decision-making across marketing, operations, product, finance, and customer success. They’re currently rebuilding their analytics platform with modern, scalable tools and need a strong contractor to accelerate this transition. Working in a fast-paced, collaborative, and remote-first environment, you’ll make a lasting impact on how data empowers the organisation.

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