Senior Analytics Engineer

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.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer you will design build and maintain the data models and semantic layer that power Forward - collaborating with Data Engineering Data Science DevOps Business Intelligence and Product. You'll help shape and operate our modern analytics platform (dbt Fivetran Snowflake Datafold Tableau) and play a direct role in building the AI-ready data foundation that supports Snowflake Intelligence agent-based use cases and machine learning at Forward - delivering high-quality data products that drive innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.

• Design develop and optimize scalable dimensional data models and marts using dbt

• Build and extend Forward's 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

• Help deliver the data foundation that powers AI at Forward - contributing the high-quality models metadata and governance that make Snowflake Intelligence and other AI/agent use cases trustworthy and production-ready

• Advance Forward's data centralization vision by collaborating across BI Data Science Data Engineering and Product to consolidate sources of truth and eliminate fragmented business logic

• Act as the primary liaison with the Data Science team to translate features into production-ready data variables required for training and validating predictive models

• Collaborate closely with the Data Engineering team to ensure the robust reliable deployment and orchestration of data variables that feed production machine learning models

• Partner with the Core Technology teams on internal application schema changes and data migrations ensuring rigorous data accuracy validation and maintaining minimal disruption to downstream analytical models

• Collaborate with the DevOps team to monitor maintain and contribute to our independent high-performance streaming pipelines tailored for real-time analytics use cases

• Elevate team code quality by serving as a technical reviewer for Analytics team pull requests coaching junior members and enforcing strict adherence to internal standards for style maintainability performance and modern best practices

• Evaluate integrate and operationalize high-value third-party data sources to strategically enrich and expand the overall data ecosystem

• Champion data governance and quality across the data platform - including automated dbt tests thorough data cataloging lineage and compliance with security and regulatory standards - so stakeholders and AI systems can both rely on the numbers

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

• 4+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or Business Intelligence

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining production-level data transformation pipelines using dbt or equivalent scripting experience in Python

• 2+ years of experience with a cloud-based data warehouse such as Snowflake or Redshift

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and dimensional data modeling with a track record of building models that are durable well-tested and easy for downstream consumers to use

• Demonstrated strong ability to quickly translate complex business needs and ambiguous requirements into robust scalable technical data solutions

• Hands-on experience with Python for data scripting automation or predictive modeling support

• Experience designing or contributing to a semantic layer / metrics layer that serves as an organizational source of truth

• Experience building data products that support AI LLM or agent-based applications (e.g. Snowflake Intelligence Cortex RAG over warehouse data or similar)

• Familiarity with streaming/CDC pipelines (Streamkap Fivetran Kafka) and real-time analytics use cases

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

Annual Targeted Salary: $145000– $170000 USD

Annual Target Bonus: 10%

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.

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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