2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own and build January’s gold and semantic layers using dbt and Snowflake.
- Define and enforce data contracts, standardized metrics, ownership boundaries, and durable metric governance processes.
- Partner with Data Engineering on client reporting, metric definitions, client success criteria, and gold-layer data models.
- Advocate for expanded data capture across event granularity, structured conversational data, and client attributes.
- Manage costs for dbt, Snowflake compute, and analytics tooling such as Sigma.
- Build certified and well-documented self-service data products for analysts, product managers, operations teams, and future AI agents.
- Design and ship the initial Snowflake-native semantic layer for Sigma, internal tools, chatbots, and future LLM interfaces.
- Resolve cross-team metric-definition conflicts and eliminate duplicated logic and mismatched definitions across client reports.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related analytics role.
- Deep expertise with a modern cloud data warehouse, preferably Snowflake.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience modeling data for flexibility and trust.
- Experience designing, building, or governing a semantic layer such as dbt Semantic Layer, Cube, LookML, or a similar system.
- Demonstrated ability to define metrics and data contracts adopted by multiple teams.
- Experience partnering with data engineering or infrastructure teams on shared problems without owning the entire stack.
- Track record of building trust and adoption for self-service data products.
- Strong systems thinking, ownership, client orientation, communication, and documentation skills.
- Preferred experience includes building data products or context layers for LLM-based or agentic consumers, using Sigma or Looker, blending analytics engineering with client-facing or consulting work, and working at a startup or high-growth company.
Benefits
- The position is based in January’s New York office.
- January is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
Tech Stack
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Data Engineering
About January
January builds data-driven software for financial institutions to manage consumer debt servicing and collections. Its platform personalizes borrower interactions and optimizes credit decisions across the lifecycle to improve recoveries while offering clear, compliant resolution options. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company sells enterprise solutions to banks, lenders, and other creditors, supporting digital outreach, payment plans, and integrations with existing systems.