Analytics Engineer

About Andela:

Andela Talent Cloud is the industry’s only unified solution to manage the complete global talent lifecycle. We help enterprises source qualify hire manage and pay global technical talent in one integrated platform.

Market leaders partner with Andela to help rewrite their workforce strategies to include global remote talent from over 175 countries to scale their teams and deliver projects faster.

Andela Talent Cloud provides an intelligent AI-driven platform that helps enterprises build remote-fluent teams from emerging geographies such as Africa and Latin America. Powerful AI-matching algorithms learn from thousands of data points in the hiring journey to pinpoint the best engineers up to 70% faster at 30 to 50% less cost than other hiring approaches.  Andela caters to specialized disciplines such as Application Engineering Artificial Intelligence Cloud and Data & Analytics with over 30 specific use cases. The world’s best brands trust Andela including GitHub Mastercard Foundry ViacomCBS and Mindshare.

About The Role: We are seeking a talented and experienced Analytics Engineer to join our dynamic team at Andela. As an Analytics Engineer you will play a crucial role in translating complex business requirements into valuable data designs and implementing the necessary engineering components to support our analytical and data-driven initiatives. Your expertise in SQL Python data modeling and cloud platforms will be instrumental in delivering accurate and timely data from diverse sources and driving business outcomes. Responsibilities:

• You are a talented Senior Analytics Engineer with a track record for delivering measurable results in a dynamic environment.

• Collaborate closely with Andela's business stakeholders to understand their requirements and deliver actionable insights through data analysis and reporting.

• Design and develop SQL-based code base to extract transform and load data from various sources into our analytical systems.

• Utilize your strong knowledge of data modeling principles to design and optimize data structures for efficient storage and retrieval.

• Leverage your experience with data integration tools such as dbt to streamline data pipelines and ensure data quality and consistency.

• Work in an Agile/Scrum environment participating in sprint planning daily stand-ups and retrospectives to deliver high-quality results within tight deadlines.

• Maintain and enhance Andela's metadata catalog to support a scalable self-service analytics environment.

• Conduct code reviews provide constructive feedback and mentor junior members of the team.

• Stay up to date with emerging trends in analytics and data engineering identifying opportunities for innovation and aligning them with business objectives.

• Foster an environment of trust collaboration and continuous improvement within the team.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science MIS Mathematics Business or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 3+ years of experience working with SQL and Python in a professional setting.

• Strong proficiency in a cloud platform with experience in GCP being a plus.

• Extensive knowledge and experience in data modeling from conceptual designs to physical implementations.

• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and working in a fast-paced rapidly changing environment.

• Experience with data integration tools such as dbt to streamline data pipelines and ensure data quality.

• Working knowledge of shell scripting and distributed version control systems such as Git.

• Basic understanding of containerization technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.

• Experience with data visualization tools (i.e. Looker) preferred.

• Experience with modern SaaS tools and familiarity with streaming and real-time data access concepts.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose performance issues and provide effective solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

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Benefits

• Fully Remote work culture - we hire globally and all of our roles are fully remote!

• Bring your own device stipend - buy your own laptop with funds from Andela

• Flexible working hours

• Equity (as a part of the compensation package)

• Healthcare 401k / pension (US only)

• Generous Paid Time Off Parental Leave Compassionate Leave

And more to come! We're on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.

At Andela we outcompete through diversity. We know that our strengths lie in the multiplicity of talents perspectives backgrounds & orientations resident in our community and we take pride in that. Andela is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits discriminatory practices. Andela provides equal employment opportunities and workplace to all employees and applicants without regard to factors including but not limited to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability pregnancy (including breastfeeding) genetic information HIV/AIDS or any other medical status family or parental status marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. This commitment applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training. Our policies expressly prohibit any form of harassment and/or discrimination as stated above. Andela is home for all come as you are.