2 months ago
Remote, Chile +4 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction, architecture, conventions, and engineering approach for the analytics team.
- Lead code reviews, design reviews, pairing, documentation, technical presentations, and mentoring for junior engineers.
- Own the architecture and long-term maintainability of data models, the semantic layer, metric definitions, and governed self-service analytics.
- Partner with Product, Finance, Marketing, and Engineering to translate stakeholder needs into an executable roadmap and negotiate scope.
- Drive proactive analysis that surfaces business questions and insights.
- Define data testing strategy and govern validation of business logic across the analytics layer.
- Own monitoring, alerting, incident response, and release readiness for the analytics layer.
- Lead large-scale migrations and performance initiatives by setting the approach and enabling the team to execute.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience working with data in a software environment.
- Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python.
- Advanced experience with business semantic-layer tooling, data catalog tooling, and data-integrity testing frameworks.
- Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
- Deep domain knowledge of data systems and a track record of working autonomously and proactively.
- Experience with relational datastores, DAG tooling such as Dagster or Airflow, dbt, and Tableau.
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure including AWS, GCP, and Terraform.
- Experience with document, graph, or schema-less datastores.
Benefits
- The work supports education and aims to improve outcomes for students and teachers.
- Employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
- Remote role, indicated by #LI-Remote.
- Contractor position.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Newsela
Newsela builds a K–12 instructional content platform that delivers leveled nonfiction articles, lessons, and assessments for reading, social studies, and science. Schools and districts buy annual subscriptions for teachers and students; content is sourced from news and licensed publishers and aligned to state standards, with integrations for common classroom tools. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company reports classroom use across all 50 U.S. states.