Analytics Engineer

Salary

$98,000.00 - $164,000.00

Location

Westminster, CO; Hybrid

This is a pivotal role for an experienced analytics professional who wants to shape the future of business intelligence at scale. You'll be instrumental in establishing our Power BI practice, creating frameworks that enable self-service analytics, and mentoring business stakeholders to become sophisticated BI practitioners. This isn't just about building dashboards—it's about architecting scalable solutions and driving organizational change.

Why This Role is Different

This isn't a traditional BI developer position focused solely on dashboard creation. You'll be:

An architect designing scalable frameworks that enable enterprise-wide self-service analytics
A consultant working across diverse business domains to solve complex analytical challenges
A teacher mentoring others and elevating the organization's overall BI maturity
A strategist identifying opportunities and driving continuous improvement initiatives

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership (25%)

Define and implement BI best practices, standards, and governance frameworks across the organization
Identify opportunities to improve our analytics capabilities and maturity
Contribute to the strategic roadmap for our federated BI transformation
Collaborate with senior leadership on enterprise-wide analytics initiatives

Stakeholder Partnership (40%)

Work directly with early adopters across Finance, Security, Operations, IT, Platform Governance, Customer Service, Product, and other business domains
Translate complex business requirements into scalable, performant BI solutions
Mentor business users to develop self-service analytics capabilities
Guide teams through the migration from legacy tools (Superset, Tableau, Business Objects) to Power BI
Facilitate knowledge transfer and build internal BI expertise across the organization

Technical Excellence (35%)

Design and implement sophisticated data models optimized for performance and usability
Design and architect robust semantic layers that serve as the foundation for enterprise reporting
Create compelling dashboards and visualizations that drive business decisions
Write high-performance SQL and optimize data pipelines for BI consumption
Implement security frameworks including row-level security for sensitive data access

What You Bring

Required Experience:

Active Secret (or higher) security clearance
5+ years of advanced SQL development and optimization
5+ years with modern BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.)
3+ years of hands-on Power BI development and administration
3+ years designing and implementing SQL-based data models
Proven track record working directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions
Experience translating business needs into technical specifications and actionable deliverables

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with dbt Cloud for data transformation and modeling
Background in designing enterprise semantic layers and data marts
Expertise implementing row-level security and data governance in BI environments
Experience collaborating with data engineering teams and understanding data pipeline architectures
Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and modern data stack components
Experience with Starburst (Trino) for high-performance analytics
AWS cloud platform experience
Apache Superset knowledge (helpful for our migration efforts)
Airflow experience for understanding upstream data dependencies

Team Structure

You'll report to the Sr. Manager of Data Intelligence and work as an individual contributor with significant autonomy. While you won't have direct reports, you'll have substantial influence through your mentoring and framework development work across the organization.

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