Manager Analytics Engineering

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States Dominican Republic and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work® Forward is investing in its employees technology and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way.

The Analytics Engineering team at Forward plays a central role in our Data ecosystem partnering with technical and business stakeholders to convert raw data into trusted AI-ready insights. Our team builds and optimizes data infrastructure designs the data models and semantic layer that power Forward's source of truth and develops the pipelines that fuel business intelligence advanced analytics predictive modeling and the next generation of AI-driven experiences at the company.

We are seeking a Manager Analytics Engineering to lead and grow a high-performing team of Lead and Senior Analytics Engineers and to take ownership of one of Forward's most strategic bets: building a centralized AI-ready data foundation. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set technical direction for a critical portion of our data platform ship code alongside your team and drive the build-out of our semantic layer so that a single source of truth powers our dashboards models and the next generation of AI experiences - including Snowflake Intelligence and other agent-based capabilities leadership is investing in.

You'll partner with stakeholders across Sales Underwriting Account Servicing Finance Risk and Product to turn complex business problems into trusted scalable data products. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Analytics Engineering you'll be a key partner in evolving how Forward delivers insight - and intelligence - at scale.

In This Role You Will:

• Lead coach and develop a team of Lead and Senior Analytics Engineers - driving career growth performance and a high-trust team culture.

• Stay deeply hands-on: write and review SQL/dbt code drive technical design and uphold a high bar for craftsmanship testing and documentation across our Snowflake + dbt stack.

• Own the roadmap for your team’s portion of the analytics platform - prioritizing work that drives the most business impact and balancing delivery quality and technical debt.

• Drive Forward’s data centralization vision by partnering with Business Intelligence and wider Analytics group to design and deliver scalable data models marts and a reliable semantic layer that serves as the company’s single source of truth.

• Lead the build-out of our semantic layer and metrics standards so key business KPIs are defined once governed clearly and consumed consistently across dashboards models AI agents and downstream products.

• Translate ambiguous business problems from leadership and cross-functional stakeholders into well-scoped technical solutions communicating tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Champion data quality observability and governance - including testing lineage cataloging and incident response - so stakeholders can trust the numbers.

• Drive technical excellence in our dbt project: model architecture performance tuning incremental strategies and CI/CD practices that scale as data volume and team size grow.

• Help shape our hiring bar - recruit interview and onboard exceptional Analytics Engineers as the team continues to grow.

  Role Requirements:

• (Even if you don’t check every box but see yourself contributing please apply.)

• 7+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or Business Intelligence with a strong foundation in SQL and dimensional/data modeling.

• 2+ years of people management experience leading senior individual contributors including driving performance and career development.

• Deep hands-on expertise with dbt and a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake strongly preferred) including incremental models testing strategies and macros.

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating a semantic or metrics layer that serves as a trusted source of truth across an organization.

• Track record of partnering directly with senior cross-functional leaders (Finance Risk Operations Product etc.) to translate business problems into durable data products.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to make complex technical decisions accessible to executives and non-technical partners.

• Proven ability to coach engineers raise the technical bar and deliver consistently against an ambitious roadmap.

  Nice to Have:

• Experience integrating AI or LLM-based capabilities into the analytics stack (e.g. Snowflake Intelligence).

• Experience in fintech lending or another regulated data-intensive industry.

• Experience with streaming data or CDC pipelines (Streamkap Fivetran or similar) and real-time analytics use cases.

• Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau Looker or similar.

• Python proficiency for data transformations or workflow tooling.

Compensation:

Annual Targeted Salary: $170000-$200000 USD

Annual Target Bonus: 12%

At Forward Financing we're committed to fair and transparent compensation. We believe in providing a compensation package that recognizes your skills experience and the unique value you bring to our team. We take a market-based approach to pay regularly reviewing benchmark data to ensure our compensation remains competitive equitable and aligned with our performance-driven culture.

Final offers are determined by a variety of factors including the candidate's qualifications relevant experience specific skills and internal equity. This approach ensures that our compensation is competitive and equitable. Your recruiter will provide specific details on the expected base and variable earnings as it pertains to this specific role.

Additionally we offer a comprehensive total rewards package including but not limited to: medical dental vision commuter benefits a flexible time-off policy paid parental leave 401k match for US employees wellness reimbursement volunteering days annual professional development budget and charitable donation match.

Forward is proud to be a remote-first company keeping workplace flexibility a top priority for our employees. As a business we are focused on impact; we are more concerned with your contributions to the success of the company than where you get your work done. To help facilitate in-person collaboration employees are welcome to work from one of our premiere office locations.

When we aren’t collaborating to drive business and support our customers we’re finding virtual and in-person ways to get to know our colleagues celebrate team wins and have fun together!

What We Do

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States Dominican Republic and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Forward has been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In and is certified as a Great Place To Work.® We’re investing in our employees technology and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way. Want to learn more? Visit: forwardfinancing.com/careers

Why Work With Us

We’re building a place where our people want to run to work every day. Here you’ll be with colleagues who work together towards shared goals and challenge you to bring your best; you’ll work with leaders who support your professional growth and want to see you succeed.

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