Analytics Engineer
LaSalle Network · Fort Worth, TX · 4 days ago
Information Technology$70/hrContract
About the role
Our client is seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to join its growing Data & Analytics team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving business problems through data, partnering directly with stakeholders and building scalable, trusted data products that power enterprise reporting and modern analytics.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and maintain enterprise dimensional data models that support reporting and analytics across the organization
- Build and optimize dbt models to create trusted, reusable datasets
- Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand reporting requirements and translate them into scalable analytical solutions
- Develop semantic models and business-friendly data structures within Snowflake
- Collaborate closely with Data Engineering to ensure data quality, governance and consistency across the analytics ecosystem
- Support executive dashboards, self-service reporting and enterprise analytics initiatives
- Help establish the semantic layer that supports AI-enabled analytics and future Snowflake Cortex capabilities
- Continuously improve data quality, performance and usability across the modern data platform
- Promote analytics engineering and data modeling best practices
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Engineering or a related field
- Expert-level SQL development skills
- Strong experience designing enterprise dimensional data models using Kimball methodology
- Experience building star schemas, fact tables, dimension tables and semantic models
- Hands-on experience developing dbt models
- Experience working within Snowflake
- Strong understanding of modern ELT architecture and analytics engineering best practices
- Ability to communicate effectively with business stakeholders, directors and executive leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Snowflake Cortex (Analyst, Agents or Semantic Views)
- Experience designing enterprise semantic layers
- Azure data platform experience
- Tableau or other enterprise BI platforms
- Experience supporting AI-enabled analytics initiatives
- Executive reporting and self-service analytics experience
Benefits
- Opportunity to build the trusted semantic foundation for a modern enterprise data platform
- High visibility across business and technology leadership
- Direct partnership with stakeholders to solve meaningful business challenges
- Exposure to emerging AI and modern analytics technologies
- Collaborative environment with opportunities to influence enterprise data strategy
- Modern cloud-based technology stack focused on innovation and scalability
Pay and Schedule
Compensation: $70 per hour, upon conversion $140,000 - $150,000 annually. This opportunity is expected to begin as a contract engagement, with the potential for long-term or permanent employment based on business needs and individual performance. The role is hybrid, based in Fort Worth, TX.