Velir is an established mid-sized agency with a top-tier portfolio of clients, ranging from the world’s largest non-profits to Fortune 500 brands. As of 2023, Velir acquired Brooklyn Data Company, a premier data and analytics consultancy focused on leadership, process improvement, implementation, and advanced analytics.
At Velir, we believe people are our greatest asset. Our culture is built on a foundation of trust, collaboration, and continued improvement. We strive for excellence in everything we do, embracing challenges as opportunities for growth. Our success is driven by a shared passion for making a positive impact on our customers, our communities and each other. We are a remote first company that offers competitive pay and excellent benefits.
As a Manager, Analytics Engineering, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of Analytics Engineers while actively contributing to the development and implementation of analytics engineering solutions. Your primary focus will be to address pain points related to analytics engineering culture, standardized development and modeling approaches, tools, and staying up-to-date with industry trends in a way that benefits the company. You will play a crucial role in driving employee retention, resourcing, learnings management, presales, feedback gathering, QA, and internal analytics engineering processes.
Key Responsibilities- Team Leadership: You are responsible for a diverse team of analytics engineers, at different levels in their careers. You will foster their growth, and wellbeing of the team, as well as pairing with the team to solve interesting analytical challenges. You will work closely with data solutions managers and your director to ensure adequate and sustainable analytics engineering coverage across engagements.
- Functional Leadership: You are responsible for working with clients to build guidelines for data modeling and transformation, measuring and tracking deliverables, and implementing analytics engineering tools to support data-driven decision-making, and develop strategies to ensure data quality and consistency with their data products.
- Project Delivery: You are responsible for improving core analytics engineering deliverables by supporting internal process reviews, building guidelines for data visualization and measuring and tracking reporting deliverables to ensure client satisfaction.
- Expert proficiency with data transformation tools (e.g., dbt)
- Expert proficiency in data modeling approaches and philosophies (e.g., Kimball, OBT)
- Intermediate / expert proficiency with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake)
- Knowledge of common data integration patterns (e.g., CDC, ELT, etc.)
- Knowledge of common data integration / orchestration platforms (e.g., Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, Apache Airflow)
- Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
- Experience with optimizing resource allocation by assessing team members' strengths and assigning tasks according to their expertise, while promoting skill growth.
- Intermediate / expert proficiency with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake)
- Intermediate / expert proficiency with data modeling approaches and philosophies, and the tools that are used (e.g., dbt)
- Experience mentoring and advising other engineers
- Experience with optimizing resource allocation by assessing team members' strengths and assigning tasks according to their expertise, while promoting skill growth.
- Frequent sitting at a desk performing work on a computer
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Please note that compensation packages are finalized after the interview process is concluded. We use a competency-based approach to base pay, which means it is based on the competencies and skills demonstrated for this role.
- Take the Long View - Ensure the company is built to last
- Be Courageous - Make the right decisions even when they aren't the easiest decisions
- Be Genuine - Bring honesty and authenticity to all that you do
- Work with Focus + Passion - Display purpose and pride in your work and never stop learning
As an equal opportunity employer, we are firmly committing to diversity, equity, and inclusion in our hiring efforts. We recognize that we need team members from all backgrounds and experiences to successfully shape a positive employee experience as well as deliver our product and service solutions. To that end, we actively seek candidates who can bring diverse experiences and backgrounds to our team. We know that complex factors and systemic bias can get in the way of us meeting strong candidates, so please don't hesitate to apply even if you're not 100% sure.
At this time, Velir does not sponsor candidates and unfortunately cannot accept those on OPT or CPT.
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