Lead Business Intelligence Engineer

About the Role

As a Lead Business Intelligence Engineer  you will have ownership of a business area. You will be the SME on the subject area and your primary day-to-day tasks will include working with stakeholders to understand and accomplish their data needs. You will use our BI tech stack (Looker and Snowflake) to deliver business value in the form of:

• Developing business modeling layer in Looker
• Looker dashboards
• Automate data extracts
• ETL (refining & curating data)

You must be willing to start work no later than 9am Central Time on business days.

As a Lead, you will be responsible for establishing development standards and ensure adherence to best practices. You will also come up with your own recommendations and ideas of what can be done with the data beyond the initial requirements.

You must be willing to take a deep dive in the data and understand the meaning, understand idiosyncrasies and communicate at both a technical and business level. You’ll ensure the  business definitions are documented.

The ideal candidate would :

• Have 4+ years of experience with modern day visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, Qlik
• Expertise in SQL, including using advanced window functions
• Proficient in data warehousing and modeling concepts. Provide recommendations on efficient data models for reporting
• Ability to provide guidance. to junior members on technical solutions, perform code reviews
• Ability to analyze impact of a business process change on the warehouse and reports
• Ability to map data structures from source / operational system to curated and author complex ETL
• Ability to mine and understand how data is used for decision making, examine anomalies and patterns
• Own the governance process of ensuring all stakeholders are congruent on the meaning of the data and it’s well documented
• Build the BI layer of abstraction with KPIs needed by stakeholders to measure business performance
• Build reports when needed and train others in the ability to build BI reports, teaching them the concepts and complexities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications
• Ability to simplify complex technical jargon into easy to understand business language
• Familiar with Github or similar tool for code management
• Self starter, quick learner, able to juggle multiple priorities and work in a fast paced environment

Why join us? 

• Health benefits, Flexible PTO, 401(K) match, growth opportunities