Contractor (LATAM) for Senior Data Warehouse & Analytics Services

Newsela is seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Latin America for Senior-Level Data Warehouse and Analytics Services.

Scope of Services 

• This Contractor will develop a thorough understanding of the various data sources and key business processes to propose, design, and build the right data models. 
• Maintain and simplify existing data models as needed while working in parallel to set up or move data modeling to new analytics engineering platform using tools like Dbt.
• Collaborate to build or modify data models to quickly satisfy business requirements.
• Work to continuously iterate and improve the analytics engineering process. 
• Maintain data documentation and definitions to make models easy for consumption both within the team and across the organization. 
• This role will be a long-term contract.

Skills / Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in data modeling.
• You have a strong working knowledge of SQL.
• You have worked with a modern cloud-native data stack in a fast-paced environment.
• You are comfortable working with and optimizing existing models. 
• You are obsessed with identifying, proposing, and replacing existing models with more performant and efficient models as needed.
• You are detail-oriented and take pride in the quality of your work. 
• You have a working knowledge of source control systems like GitHub.
• Experience with Data Build Tool (Dbt) is a plus
• Experience with Snowflake / BigQuery is a plus
• Experience with BI tools like Looker is a plus

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.