Lead Analytics Engineer

The role

The Principal Analytics Engineer will architect data and analytics infrastructure to provide shared, trusted foundations for various business units. You will own the business-context layer and the semantic layer to serve as a single source of truth.

What you will do

• Design the shared data model and semantic layer.
• Define the authoritative source of truth for core business metrics.
• Set and enforce standards for dataset structure, naming, documentation, and testing.
• Architect the self-serve layer for stakeholders in BI tools.
• Partner with Data Engineering on shared roadmap, data contracts, and warehouse performance.
• Own data and BI issues from root cause to resolution.
• Coach Data Science and Analytics practitioners on dimensional modeling and self-serve analytics.

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building analytics infrastructure, data platforms, or data engineering at scale.
• Expert-level data modeling (dimensional modeling, star schema, fact and dimension tables).
• Expert-level SQL.
• Experience in a cloud warehouse such as Snowflake.
• Expert-level experience with dbt and data pipeline orchestration (Airflow or equivalent).
• Expert-level experience with semantic layers and BI tools (Cube, Semantic Views, Preset, Looker, or equivalent).
• Track record of building reusable datasets and standards that multiple teams adopt.
• Track record of enabling AI tools for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication to explain complex data architecture to non-technical stakeholders.
• Systems thinking to optimize for organizational impact.

Nice to have

• experience with experimentation infrastructure and test result analysis
• open source or published writing on analytics architecture
• coaching analytics engineers and data analysts

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• retirement
• generous leave policies

About the company

The Knot Worldwide champions the power of celebration through a global family of brands. Their business includes a global online wedding Vendor Marketplace connecting couples with wedding professionals.