Analytics Engineering

Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world's largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands. As of 2023, Velir acquired Brooklyn Data Company, a premier data and analytics consultancy focused on leadership, process improvement, implementation, and advanced analytics.

At Velir, we believe people are our greatest asset. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and continued improvement. We strive for excellence in everything we do, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Our success is driven by a shared passion for making a positive impact on our customers, our communities and each other. We are a remote first company that offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.

Overview

Analytics engineers understand the fundamentals about how data can be explored and interpreted to derive actionable insights from data, answer business questions, and support strategic decisions for our clients.

Because our clients are mostly US-based organizations, we look for the ability to communicate with professional proficiency in English, verbally and in writing.

Responsibilities

Functional Skills & Knowledge: You are responsible for moving and transforming data from the source so that it can be easily analyzed, visualized, and acted upon by the data analyst or business user. Analytics engineers deal with the data itself as well as the movement of data. You are capable of manipulating data through data cleaning, data conversion, and data modeling. Your job is ensuring that data is ingested, transformed, scheduled, and ready to be used for analytics.

• Designs data models, implements data governance, selects and implements analytics tools, and creates efficient data querying and processing methods.
• Works with tools like business intelligence (BI) platforms and data visualization tools.
• Has a solid understanding of discipline basics, wherein you can competently execute on smaller analytics tasks or product improvements with the guidance of senior engineers and management. You can consistently deliver small features and improvements that have an impact on clients.
• Provides constructive feedback on peer code or technical design document reviews
  
  

With career development:

• Participates in design and bug fixes under direct supervision. Writes, tests, and documents code as per BDC guidelines, writing and reviewing technical design documentation.
• Confidently contributes to internal analytics projects, eventually improving our in-house approach by regularly planning technical work with the team.
• Independently leads small- to medium-sized projects (4-8 analytics weeks) through the entire lifecycle from design to development and deployment.
• Serves as a mentor for less advanced team members and onboarding new engineers onto the team.
  
  

Cross-Team Collaboration: You are responsible for collaborating with peers and senior ICs in other functional departments—most often data solutions, data analytics, and data engineering—to develop and implement analytics engineering approaches that support our client engagement goals.

• Effectively collaborates across disciplines, including data engineering and analytics.
• Collaborates with data analysts and data engineers to ensure that the data infrastructure supports analytics needs.
• Approaches problem-solving as a team effort, providing timely and helpful feedback to peers and leads.
• Works well with other members of the team and are comfortable challenging other people's opinions and open to having their own opinions challenged, too.
• Regularly seeks feedback from other team members (other Engineers, Data Solutions Managers, and peers in other functions) and incorporates that feedback in day-to-day work.
  
  

Engagement Delivery: You are responsible for ensuring that smaller and/or lower complexity analytics engineering projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.

• Consistently seeks out, delivers and maintains small projects or surface-specific tasks with the help of more experienced Engineers.
• Capable of self-directed project delivery and can help the team to prioritize work that maximizes team impact, including avoiding getting stuck on unimportant details.
• Participates in the definition and delivery of work or projects within the team.
• Escalates matters when appropriate without getting into rabbit holes or blocked for long time periods. Exercises a good sense of timeboxing tasks and able to proactively address issues before they become problematic.
  
  

Skills & Qualifications

• Programming languages (e.g. SQL)
• Business intelligence platforms (e.g. PowerBI)
• Proficiency with data transformation tools (e.g., dbt)
• Proficiency in data modeling approaches and philosophies (e.g., Kimball, OBT)
• Proficiency with at least one cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake)
• Proficiency with version control and git
• Knowledge of common data integration patterns (e.g., CDC, ELT, etc.)
• Knowledge of common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow)
  
  

Bonus points for:

• Data Analysis: You have a basic understanding of data analysis and can identify deviations from the norm and relationships between various data points.
• Data Movement: You can import large, assorted datasets from multiple sources into a single storage medium, wherein
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Frequent sitting at a desk performing work on a computer
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
  
  

Compensation Range: $105,000-135,000 annually

Please note that compensation packages are finalized after the interview process is concluded. We use a competency-based approach to base pay, which means it is based on the competencies and skills demonstrated for this role.

Core Company Values

• Take the Long View - Ensure the company is built to last
• Be Courageous - Make the right decisions even when they aren't the easiest decisions
• Be Genuine - Bring honesty and authenticity to all that you do
• Work with Focus Passion - Display purpose and pride in your work and never stop learning
  
  

As an equal opportunity employer, we are firmly committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring efforts. We recognize that we need team members from all backgrounds and experiences to successfully shape a positive employee experience as well as deliver our product and service solutions. To that end, we actively seek candidates who can bring diverse experiences and backgrounds to our team. We know that complex factors and systemic bias can get in the way of us meeting strong candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure.

At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT.