Analytics Engineer – People Data

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We are looking for an Analytics Engineer with experience working with HR People data to manage and maintain our semantic layer and data pipelines while ensuring data quality integrity and accuracy. You will work cross-functionally with engineering data governance and business stakeholder teams to advance our data and reporting solutions. You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions. Your work will directly influence workforce planning talent strategy and executive decision-making. 

To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical with a strong intellectual curiosity and be comfortable solving ambiguous challenges. You must be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your stakeholders will not always know what is possible so it is important that you ask effective questions to get clarity in addition to managing expectations on what you can deliver. Exceptional attention to detail strong analytical and development skills proactive communication skills and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role. 

Responsibilities:  

• Contribute to the design of the ETL process driving clean and actionable requirements and translate business logic into reusable and governed data assets while working with our Talent Engineering teams. 
• Support maintain and enhance our existing HR Data Warehouse ensuring it scales with evolving business needs and systems changes 
• Proven track record of developing enterprise-level data programs heavily focused on self-service and multi-persona management. 
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and data dictionaries for warehouse structures transformations and integrations. 
• Use SQL to extract clean and organize data from multiple HR systems ensuring structured accurate and governed reporting dashboards and analytics products. 
• Influence and collaborate on the global strategy for People Reporting at the enterprise level and establish scalable solutions to support end users.  
• Bring critical thinking & problem-solving skills to a range of challenging problems.  
• Stay relevant in technology trends that might be used to resolve complex business problems. 
• Advocate for and implement best practices in data engineering testing and documentation. 

We are looking for an Analytics Engineer with experience working with HR People data to manage and maintain our semantic layer and data pipelines while ensuring data quality integrity and accuracy. You will work cross-functionally with engineering data governance and business stakeholder teams to advance our data and reporting solutions. You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions. Your work will directly influence workforce planning talent strategy and executive decision-making. 

To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical with a strong intellectual curiosity and be comfortable solving ambiguous challenges. You must be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your stakeholders will not always know what is possible so it is important that you ask effective questions to get clarity in addition to managing expectations on what you can deliver. Exceptional attention to detail strong analytical and development skills proactive communication skills and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role. 

Responsibilities:  

• Contribute to the design of the ETL process driving clean and actionable requirements and translate business logic into reusable and governed data assets while working with our Talent Engineering teams. 
• Support maintain and enhance our existing HR Data Warehouse ensuring it scales with evolving business needs and systems changes 
• Proven track record of developing enterprise-level data programs heavily focused on self-service and multi-persona management. 
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and data dictionaries for warehouse structures transformations and integrations. 
• Use SQL to extract clean and organize data from multiple HR systems ensuring structured accurate and governed reporting dashboards and analytics products. 
• Influence and collaborate on the global strategy for People Reporting at the enterprise level and establish scalable solutions to support end users.  
• Bring critical thinking & problem-solving skills to a range of challenging problems.  
• Stay relevant in technology trends that might be used to resolve complex business problems. 
• Advocate for and implement best practices in data engineering testing and documentation. 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:  

• BA/BS degree or equivalent degree in Computer Science Information Technology Information Systems or a related field. 
• 5 years of experience as an Analytics Engineer Data Engineer or Analyst / Consultant with an engineering background. 
• 5 years of database design and semantic layer development. 
• 5 years of experience and advanced proficiency in SQL including data modeling transformation and query optimization. 
• 5 years of experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI Tableau etc.). 
• 1 years of experience with Python or scripting languages. 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 6 years of work experience managing stakeholders and engineering teams. 
• Familiarity with tools including ALM Toolkit Tabular Editor SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) etc. 
• Experience in enterprise integration primarily focused on HR systems and People Analytics tools (Visier Workday SmartRecruiters etc.) Visier preferred. 
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and data warehousing solutions (Databricks).   
• Experience and understanding of ETL/ELT frameworks data validation and reconciliation techniques. 
• Experience building and supporting data warehouses specifically for HR and People Analytics domains. 

Suggested Skills: 

• Design and Systems Thinking 
• Problem Solving 
• Autonomy Creativity and Discretion 

The pay range for this role is $121900 - $164450 CAD OTE. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.   

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