Principal Analytics Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

We are seeking a Principal Analytics Engineer with skills in data product development pipeline management data modeling data transformation and data analytics to support enterprise analytics and AI initiatives. The Principal Analytics Engineers role moves beyond execution to focus on architectural governance acting as the dbt expert to define and enforce data product development best practices for scalability and cost-efficiency. This role requires a passion for coaching junior engineers providing deep technical mentorship to foster a culture of engineering rigor and elevate team performance. You will need to master the complex organizational dynamics inherent in cross-functional projects acting as the key technical liaison to build consensus and drive the adoption of unified enterprise metrics. Ultimately you will be responsible for defining the strategy for foundational data projects ensuring all business teams have access to optimized efficient and trusted data products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Architect design and lead the build-out of end-to-end performant reliable and scalable data pipelines and the transformation layer.

• Act as the dbt subject matter expert defining and championing data modeling standards and best practices across the organization while managing the full lifecycle of complex dimensional models and metrics from prototyping to production.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product Owners Data Analysts and business leaders (Sales Marketing Finance) to scope and deliver high-impact analytics initiatives ensuring analytics requirements are clearly understood and effectively implemented.

• Operate as a highly independent individual contributor solving complex ambiguous problems and delivering high-quality architecturally sound solutions with minimal oversight and a high degree of ownership over critical data domains.

• Mentor guide and coach junior and mid-level engineers to deliver complex and next-generation features actively instilling a culture of software engineering rigor code quality best practice standards and technical excellence within the team.

• Master the dynamics of high-stakes projects expertly navigating stakeholder and internal complexities to align business needs with technical feasibility and secure consensus on enterprise-wide metric definitions.

• Design and build database architectures to handle massive and complex data volumes skillfully balancing computational load query latency and data warehouse cost efficiency integrating strong data quality audits and testing frameworks at scale to ensure resilience.

• Boost overall data team productivity by proactively identifying technical debt improving tooling automating complex workflows and streamlining processes for transformation and deployment.

• Bring a customer-centric product-oriented mindset to the table collaborating with external and internal stakeholders to resolve ambiguities and ensure shipped data features are impactful reliable and align with business outcomes.

• Build and maintain user friendly documentation for data models data processes workflows and systems for transparency and knowledge sharing.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 7 years of professional experience in an Analytics Engineering or Data Engineering role preferably within a SaaS or high-tech environment.

• 7 years of professional experience in SQL and strong production experience with a major cloud data warehouse (Snowflake BigQuery Redshift).

• Extensive experience with DBT including advanced features (macros packages source freshness custom tests).

• Strong familiarity with version control (GitHub) CI/CD and modern development workflows.

• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling

Other Qualifications:

• Experience in a technical coaching or mentoring role with demonstrable impact on junior engineers development.

• Demonstrated ability to manage requirements and expectations across multiple competing business units.

• Strong communicator who can build trusted partnerships across GTM Finance and Exec stakeholders.

• Experience with a major orchestration tool and defining complex data dependencies.

• Deep functional knowledge of core SaaS business domains (e.g. Salesforce/CRM data Product telemetry Financial modeling).

• Proficiency in Python for scripting data manipulation and pipeline orchestration.

• Bias for action - you prefer launching usable iterative data models that deliver immediate value over waiting for perfect solutions.

• Comfortable working through ambiguity in fast-moving cross-functional environments.

• Familiarity with data governance tools data catalogs and data observability solutions.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or quantitative field. Masters or Ph.D. degree preferred.

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The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. Workday pay ranges vary based on work location. As a part of the total compensation package this role may be eligible for the Workday Bonus Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus as well as annual refresh stock grants. Recruiters can share more detail during the hiring process. Each candidates compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including but not limited to geography experience skills job duties and business need among other things. For more information regarding Workdays comprehensive benefits please click here.

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