Director, Data Analyst/BI Engineer

USA (Remote)

$138K/yr – $175K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

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Job Summary

Own the multi-quarter data technology roadmap across BI and MarTech, act as the senior technical voice for clients, and drive end-to-end data architecture, governance, and delivery at scale.

  • Own the data tech roadmap and end-to-end BI/MarTech platform governance
  • Translate business questions into measurable data problems and guide clients
  • Lead architecture decisions, data quality, and platform activation across Snowflake, BigQuery, and Looker

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Data Vision: Own the multi-quarter data technology roadmap across both BI and MarTech, aligned to the client's business goals.
  • Trusted Advisor: Act as the senior technical voice in the relationship, translating business questions into measurable data problems and technical realities into language executives can act on.
  • Architecture Authority: Serve as the final word on architecture decisions, measurement methodology, and data-quality calls across the practice.
  • Pragmatic Delivery: Balance near-term delivery with the long-term discipline of a maintainable, well-governed ecosystem.
  • Warehouse Ownership: Architect the BI stack end to end, covering ingestion, transformation, modeling, and activation, across Snowflake and BigQuery.
  • Hands-On Engineering: Write the Python, design the models, stand up the AWS/GCP/ETL plumbing, and review the team's code.
  • Governed Self-Serve: Own Looker / LookML as the governed semantic layer and primary visualization surface, driving toward trusted self-serve analytics.
  • Healthy at Scale: Set the practices that keep a warehouse sound: modeling conventions, access governance, cost management, and pipeline observability.
  • Senior Subject-Matter Expert: Be the technical authority on the marketing data stack, able to diagnose a consent, tagging, or measurement issue live and direct the web and mobile specialists.
  • Platform Command: Command the major media platforms and their supporting technology: Google Ads, Meta, SA360, DV360, CM360, alongside tag management (GTM, Tealium), CDPs, and server-side tracking.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years in data engineering, analytics, or marketing technology, including senior leadership of technical work and teams.
  • A track record as both strategist and practitioner who stays hands-on.
  • Deep, hands-on experience across Snowflake and BigQuery- modeling, performance, governance, and cost, and strong SQL.
  • Demonstrated Looker / LookML expertise as a primary visualization and semantic layer.
  • Strong Python skills, with proven ETL/ELT design and hands-on experience across AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
  • Subject-matter-level command of the marketing data stack, tag management, CDPs, server-side tracking, CAPI / Enhanced Conversions / Offline Conversion Import, Consent Mode, with the depth to set strategy, direct specialists, and speak with authority in front of clients.
  • Working command of privacy and consent regulation (CCPA/CPRA, GDPR) and its practical impact on tracking and measurement.
  • Strong communication skills across executive, client, and engineering audiences.

Preferred

  • Agency experience supporting a major global brand is a plus.
  • Hands-on familiarity with tools like Matillion, dbt, Fivetran, or Airflow is a plus.
  • Experience with server-side GTM, identity/clean-room work (e.g., LiveRamp), or mobile measurement (AppsFlyer / Adjust / Branch) is a plus.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, Dental, and Vision coverage
  • 401k plan, plus matching
  • PTO
  • Paid Company Holidays
  • Parental Leave
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