Manager, Analytics Engineering

About the role

The Manager of Analytics Engineering role is a player-coach position responsible for leading a team of analytics engineers, designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and robust data models. This role is part of the Data & Analytics department at Justworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of analytics engineers, fostering their professional growth through goal-setting, coaching, feedback, and recognition.
• Guide your team in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable data models and ELT pipelines, a star schema architecture, and reporting solutions that power business intelligence, reduce time to insights, and elevate our company-wide data literacy.
• Manage project priorities and timelines for your team, ensuring the timely delivery of rigorous, impactful solutions while upholding high standards for data quality and integrity.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics leadership and cross-functional teams (including Engineering, Operations, and business teams) to understand requirements and translate them into executable analytics engineering projects and data products.
• Contribute to the data strategy and roadmap by identifying opportunities and executing projects leveraging data modeling, data warehouse architecture, and other analytics engineering best practices.
• Build relationships with cross-functional leads to promote the adoption of new methods, technologies, and self-service data tools that help the organization scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a data role such as analytics engineering, data engineering, or data warehousing, with hands-on experience designing and building scalable data models and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• 2+ years in people management, with a proven track record of developing and managing high-performing teams.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python.
• Deep expertise in data warehouse architecture and dimensional modeling (e.g., Kimball).
• Demonstrated experience with a modern data stack, preferably Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with complex datasets to transform and model them for analytical use.
• Excellent oral & written communication skills and a strong ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.

Pay

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City office is targeted at $166,000.00 - $214,000.00 per year. Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location.