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# Lead Data Analytics Engineer

- **Company:** Insight Global
- **Location:** Wheat Ridge, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Query Performance, Automation of Tests, Business Intelligence Development, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Dimensional Modeling, Github, Query Optimization, SQL Databases, Snowflake, Agentic-AI, Data Analytics, Star Schema
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75920364-lead-data-analytics-engineer

## About the Role

* Six or more years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or BI development, including time working at a senior or lead level.
 * Production Snowflake experience, including query performance tuning, data quality aspects, and cost-aware design
 * Production dbt experience integrated with Snowflake and version-controlled in GitHub: model structure, tests, macros, and generated documentation
 * Working command of GitHub-based CI/CD - branching strategy, pull request review, automated test execution on merge, and release
 * Expert SQL, with command of best practices: readable and maintainable code, and query optimization
 * Star schema dimensional modeling, including grain definition, conformed dimensions, and handling history (SCD Type 2)
 * Experience building within a medallion architecture, or a directly comparable layered pattern
 * Experience building or maintaining a semantic layer with consistent measure definitions for downstream reporting
 * Hands-on experience with AI agents applied in a data or analytics context
 * Delivery experience in an agile environment, working to sprint commitments and taking part in planning, review, and retrospective
 * Experience in a productized data environment, where data sets and reports are maintained as durable products with named owners and consumers, rather than delivered as one-off requests