Senior Analytics Engineer

Location: Remote (eligible US states: California Colorado Illinois Massachusetts New Jersey New York Ohio Oregon South Carolina Texas or Washington)

Compensation: $140000-175000 commensurate with experience plus bonus and benefits

Chief Detective

Chief Detective is a growth-focused agency and deep brand partner for D2C brands especially in e-commerce. We build the analytics pipelines reporting & web-apps our team and our clients actually make decisions on. Clean well-modeled data here does not just feed dashboards it empowers every employee and client to better achieve their goals. We move fast and care about measurable impact.

About the Role

We are hiring an AI-forward Senior Data & Analytics Engineer to own the data foundation everything else at Chief Detective is built on: the BigQuery and GCP data layer the dbt models and the reporting our team and clients depend on.

This role sits where analytics engineering meets product. You will build and own the foundation and you will help turn it into the AI workflows and web apps we ship. The data you model here does not just feed dashboards it powers the tools that our media-buying creative executive and client teams rely on every day.

This is a hands-on technically rigorous seat for someone who likes being in the weeds and making an impact end to end from raw source data through the models and pipelines to the AI and products on top.

What You'll Do

1. Own our dbt models and the BigQuery data layer end to end: design test document schedule and ship clean reliable data from staging through marts following best practices
2. Build and maintain the pipelines that bring marketing e-commerce and fulfillment data into our warehouse and stand up custom extractions when off-the-shelf connectors fall short
3. Be the bridge between data and the business: turn questions from across the company into trusted KPI definitions Looker Studio reporting and reusable data models
4. Model e-commerce data for forecasting and lightweight predictive work including demand and revenue forecasting regression and correlation where it drives real decisions
5. Build and maintain the clean serving layer our AI workflows agents and internal web apps query in place of direct API calls
6. Use AI daily: write dbt models and debug pipelines with Claude Code and Cursor and build practical AI workflows on Google's AI stack (Gemini and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform formerly Vertex AI) for enrichment QA classification and automation
7. Help build our own web apps and products (React Next.js) on the same GCP and BigQuery data layer
8. Keep our GCP environment running safely (IAM service accounts secrets serverless) and keep a pulse on new GCP and AI capabilities so we stay ahead of the game

What We're Looking For

1. 5+ years in analytics engineering or data engineering on a modern data stack
2. Strong SQL (joins window functions CTEs) with hands-on production experience in BigQuery on GCP
3. Proven dbt ownership in production: modeling testing documentation and job scheduling in dbt Cloud or an equivalent setup
4. Python proficiency for automation services custom API integrations and light modeling
5. Hands-on experience with marketing and e-commerce analytics data: ad platforms Shopify and GA4-style event data
6. Strong debugging ability: you can trace a "this dashboard is wrong" issue back through reporting models pipelines and source data
7. Daily use of AI-assisted coding and agentic tools (Claude Code Cursor or comparable)
8. Comfortable operating in a GCP environment (IAM service accounts secrets serverless)
9. A strong communicator who can work with non-technical and client stakeholders translate business questions into durable data and manage multiple priorities
10. Solid Git pull-request and documentation habits (runbooks metric definitions system notes)

Nice to Have

1. At least one production workflow built on LLM APIs or comparable AI services (Gemini Vertex / Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform or similar) beyond prompt experimentation
2. Front-end or product engineering experience (React Next.js) and interest in helping build our web apps and products
3. Statistical modeling and predictive analytics (regression time series correlation) on e-commerce or marketing data
4. Looker Studio tuning with cost and performance awareness deeper GCP ops (Cloud Run / Cloud Functions Cloud Scheduler / Workflows Pub/Sub) or data observability patterns (freshness SLAs alerting anomaly detection)
5. Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer
6. Appetite to mentor contractors or junior developers and grow into broader ownership of the analytics function as the team scales
7. Equivalent practical experience in place of a formal degree is fully respected

Benefits

1. Competitive salary: $140000-175000 commensurate with experience
2. Comprehensive benefits: group medical dental and vision coverage; short- and long-term disability; life insurance; 401(k) eligibility after one year of service with matching contributions; paid time off; sick leave; an Employee Assistance Program and more
3. Professional growth: the opportunity to shape our analytics future build durable systems and grow quickly with a sharp entrepreneurial team
4. Innovative culture: work closely with leadership and a team focused on building practical high-impact analytics systems

If you are excited to own a modern analytics foundation improve data reliability and build useful automation and AI on top of it we would love to hear from you. 

What We Do

Chief Detective is a boutique Facebook & Instagram growth marketing agency headquartered in Denver. We work with some of the top retailers and start-ups in the country to significantly scale their social advertising efforts and optimize their websites and landing pages. At a high level our product is excellence in online marketing.