Senior Analytics Engineer

Harnham
Manchester
1 year ago
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Role: Senior Product Analytics Engineer

FULLY REMOTE (1x month in Uxbridge - travel expensed)

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 (dependent on experience)

Insight into the Company:

This organisation is a large telecoms organisation that is looking to change the industry through their flexible approach! As an Analytics Engineer on their team, you will work to build the customer data platform.

The ideal candidate will be a team-player, working in a team of 10, working with and supporting different data workstreams. You will have strong communication skills to work within the team and also with stakeholders. The role will involve improving existing models to ensure they are efficient and scaled.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • You will ingest and transform data in snowflake using DBT
  • You will support the building of the data warehouse in Snowflake
  • You will work to sustain and implement existing ELT pipelines

Skills and Experience:

  • Essential to have 4+ years experience in:
  • SQL
  • Python
  • DBT
  • Cloud techs such as Snowflake, BigQuery or Databricks

Desirable to have experience with:

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Kafka; real-time streaming
  • Snowflake as a data warehouse
  • Product Analytics
  • Experience working with data product teams


Interview Process:

  • There are 4 stages to the process:
  1. A 30 minute discussion about experience
  2. An hour take home exercise
  3. A technical interview with the Data Director and Analytics Engineer
  4. One hour culture fit interview

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