Sr. Analytics Engineer

fairlife LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales fairlifes portfolio of delicious lactose-free real dairy products includes: fairlife ultra-filtered milk; Core Power High Protein Shakes a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife nutrition plan a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company fairlife LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products please visit .

job purpose: The Senior Analytics Engineer will be a foundational developer and force multiplier for fairlifes ambition to create a bestinclass Decision Intelligence (DI) ecosystem. This role will own the development of productiongrade data products (domain models governed metrics semantic layers and selfserve insights) while also helping the organization adopt and scale AI-enabled decision workflows (agents/copilots) through guardrails training enablement and measurable adoption.

This role is accountable not only for delivering decision intelligence but also for increasing decision velocity and trust across Finance HR Demand and Site Operations by building durable assets and by coaching others in modern analytics engineering and AI practices.

responsibilities:

• Build and own production-grade domain-oriented data products in Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Delta) with documented logic monitoring and clear SLAs/ownership.
• Develop governed semantic models and a scalable KPI/metric system that enables consistent trusted self-serve decision intelligence across Finance HR Demand and Site Operations.
• Implement CI/CD automated testing and performance optimization for pipelines models and DAX/SQL to ensure reliability and speed at scale.
• Deliver decision-ready insights (so what / now what) through dashboards alerts and embedded workflows that accelerate decision velocity and improve operational outcomes.
• Support design and development of agentic AI solutions that automate multi-step decision workflows with governed data guardrails auditability human-in-the-loop controls and evaluation metrics.
• Lead AI and decision intelligence enablement: training playbooks office hours and adoption programs; continuously measure engagement value realization and iterate based on feedback.
• Serve as a DI force multiplier by coaching teammates on analytics engineering semantic modeling and AI delivery best practices; create reusable templates and standards (build once use often)
• Partner cross-functionally to align on priorities definitions and tradeoffs; operate with strong ownership speed and accountability

skills/qualifications required:

• 6 years delivering analytics engineering or equivalent experience building production-grade data products (pipelines semantic models governed metrics).
• Bachelors in a technical field masters preferred.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled analytics solutions (agents/copilots/workflow automation) with evaluation/monitoring and safe deployment patterns (human-in-the-loop auditability).
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD and DevOps for analytics (Git Azure DevOps pipelines automated testing release processes).
• Expert SQL (TSQL SparkSQL) and strong semantic modeling skills (Power BI / Tabular) including performance tuning star schema and metric governance.
• (Preferred) Python for orchestration automation testing or ML/AI evaluation harnesses.
• Proven ability to build stakeholder trust and drive adoption through clear communication documentation and enablement (not just delivery).
• Ability to build training enablement programs and measure adoption/value.
• Experience with manufacturing/operations analytics (OEE downtime classification yield throughput scrap quality maintenance) or adjacent industries.
• Demonstrated ability to use modern development accelerators (e.g. coding assistants/agents) responsibly to increase throughput while maintaining quality and governance.
  
  

how fairlife nourishes you:

At fairlife we believe in better and that includes how we support our people. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits and wellbeing resources designed to support you physically emotionally socially and financially both in and out of work.

• Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage effective day one!
• Supplemental health plans (hospital indemnity accident and critical illness insurance)
• Paid Time Off to recharge and support work-life balance
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance (up to $10000)
• Parental support & family care benefits including childcare resources and lactation support
• 401(k) to support retirement planning with up to 9% in employer match
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $500 for qualified wellbeing expenses)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for emotional wellbeing and work-life support
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability
• Employer HSA funding (for HDHP participants)
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $10000) and student loan repayment ($200/month)
• Learning & development programs to unlock your full potential
• Rewards & recognition matching gifts free product and Business Resource Groups

fairlifes nour!sh program is designed to meet you where you are supporting your individual wellbeing journey while enabling you to do your best work every day.

position location:Chicago IL

reports to: Senior Manager Decision Intelligence

travel requirements: 10-15%

exempt/nonexempt: Exempt

fairlife LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis ofrace color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us please email.

For Recruitment Agencies

At fairlife we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team.