Senior Analytics Engineer

Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Analytics Engineering team and provide hands-on engineering direction to support all data-related analytics activities at Somatus. This exciting role will rely on your technical skills to create analytics-ready data sets and institute proper data governance, provenance, cataloguing, and lineage tracking in test-driven, version-controlled environment to accelerate analytics and data initiatives at Somatus.  This person will work cross-functionally with stakeholders across analytics, data science & engineering, product, and business functions, and will be thought leader in partnering with stakeholders across the Somtus Technology organization to help execute this vision.   

This role would involve a strong understanding of: 

• How to create self-service tools for non-technical users to work with data 
• How to extract and present business insights for non-technical users
• How to pay attention to the details and understand the causes instead of just the effects

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ship software to deliver clean, versioned, and easy to use data sets and tools for analysts and business users
• Develop high-impact data layers, user interfaces, and other tools to enable self-service analytics
• Gather feedback and input on self-service implementations from end-users and peers and create a cycle of continuous improvement
• Keep a close eye on usage of self-service products and engage in activities (documentation, socialization, etc) designed to increase usage
• Work with other leaders in technology to set and execute on long-running initiatives in data governance, cataloguing, & centralization of metrics definitions
• Understand where various opportunities fit within the broader set of Somatus strategies and prioritize competing demands to deliver the most impactful work items

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Required Education and Experience:

• Software development experience in Java, Python, C#, C++, or other language
• Familiarity with distributed data stores (S3, Presto, Hive, Spark)
• Strong ability to write complex SQL, and create ad-hoc data pipelines and ETLs 
• Experience with software development delivery (agile, JIRA, Github)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• A strong engineer with a track record of implementing self-service products for non-technical end-users
• Self-driven independent leader comfortable with ambiguity
• Authorization to work in the US

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong experience with building and maintaining semantic layers and self-service technologies (dbt, Looker, Power BI, Tableau) for business end-users 
• Experience streaming data frameworks (Kafka, Flink)
• Deep familiarity with dimensional modeling/data warehousing concepts
• Experience with Cloud (e.g., Google Cloud, Azure)
• Healthcare experience is a plus

Physical Requirements

• This job operates in a professional setting. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Normal manual dexterity is required.
• Normal speaking and hearing abilities to interact with others in an office environment, over telephone or other video conferencing platform.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; and reach with hands and arms and continuously repeat the same hand, arm finger motion many times as in typing.

Our priority is the health and safety of our members, colleagues, partners, and community. Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination is required for employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodations consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the company pursuant to applicable law. 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Somatus, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.  Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics.  Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.