Senior Analytics Engineer
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Summary
Senior Analytics Engineer at ZEBEDEE will own the transformation layer, standing up dbt on a new cloud data warehouse and building the dimensional models, tests, and documentation that finance, compliance, and product teams depend on. Core stack includes dbt, analytical SQL, orchestration (Airflow/Dagster/Prefect), cloud warehouses, and BI tools.
- We’re hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to build the modeling layer that the rest of the business runs on.
- This role will be responsible for the transformation layer as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse.
- You will design and build trustworthy models that finance, compliance, and our product depend on.
- You will help architect a scalable foundation and set patterns for the team as we drive advanced analytics and reporting across the organization.
- You will report to the VP, Data
- Own the transformation layer, including dimensional models, tests, and documentation, as we stand up dbt on a new warehouse
- Turn business questions into durable models. Not all work arrives fully specified, so you’ll turn ambiguity into structure and set patterns the team builds against
- Partner with finance, compliance, and product to define requirements, data definitions, and what “correct” means in our business context
- Monitor what you build, catching and resolving or escalating issues before our stakeholders notice
- Go a layer down into data ingestion, orchestration, or warehouse configuration when warranted, or go a layer up into analysis and decision support when needed
- 7+ years of combined experience across analytics engineering, data engineering, or analytics roles with substantial modeling ownership
- Transformation framework experience - dbt preferred, with Dataform, SQLMesh, or equivalent acceptable
- You don’t need depth in all of these, but if the work sounds like yours, please apply
- Stakeholder range - you can sit with a finance or compliance lead, ask questions to get to requirements, and leave with a definition you can build against
- Orchestration engine familiarity - Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or equivalent
- Data modeling / dimensional modeling fluency - you can design schemas from fuzzy requirements, not just query what exists
- Strong analytical SQL skills - complex joins, window functions, performance-aware queries
- Cloud data warehouse experience - Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, or equivalent
- BI / Visualization layer familiarity - Metabase, Hex, Looker, Tableau, or similar
- Engineering hygiene - Git, CI/CD, testing, documentation
- Platform-level experience - working with tools like Terraform / infra-as-code, DMS / CDC, data lake patterns, and data observability
- Experience with financial, payments, or otherwise regulated data - it shortens the learning ramp