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# Analytics Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £104,000.0 - £117,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Data Analysis, Data Systems, Performance Tuning, Standard Sql, SQL Databases, Snowflake, Looker Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/analytics-engineer/57283132

## About the Role

* 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

## 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.


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