Advisory Analytics Engineer
SolarWinds2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain multi-layer dbt data models following organizational modeling standards.
- Deliver governed, performant Tableau dashboards and self-service analytics assets from requirements through stakeholder sign-off.
- Manage the Tableau-to-dbt integration using MetricFlow semantic layer definitions in Tableau Cloud.
- Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into model specifications and analytics deliverables.
- Champion data quality through dbt tests, delivery SLAs, and lineage documentation.
- Lead CI/CD processes for dbt models, including branch-based development, pull request reviews, and automated test gates.
- Support and mentor junior and mid-level analysts in SQL, dbt modeling, and Tableau development.
- Contribute to self-service analytics enablement programs that reduce dependency on direct analyst requests.
- Serve as a point person for data solutions supporting the private equity sponsor’s office.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in analytics engineering, business intelligence, or a related data role.
- Production-grade dbt Core or dbt Cloud experience, including multi-layer models, macros, and shared packages.
- Expert Tableau skills with experience building governed, performant dashboards from scratch.
- Python proficiency for data wrangling, scripting, dbt macros, or exploratory analysis.
- Strong SQL skills, including analytical queries, window functions, common table expressions, aggregations, and query performance awareness.
- Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift and understanding of materialization and performance trade-offs.
- Experience with Git and branch-based development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD in a data context, such as dbt test gates or pull-request-triggered runs.
- Understanding of data modeling concepts including star schemas, slowly changing dimensions, and metric normalization.
- Strong communication skills for presenting findings to non-technical audiences and translating business questions into model briefs.
- Comfort using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools in analytics workflows.
- Preferred qualifications include MetricFlow or dbt Semantic Layer experience, demand or marketing funnel data experience, Salesforce or NetSuite familiarity, SaaS or recurring-revenue experience, and exposure to Dataplex, Fivetran, or next-generation self-service BI platforms.
Benefits
- Periodic onsite visits to the private equity sponsor’s office in San Francisco are required.
- The role offers collaboration with analytics engineering teams across Austin, Ireland, the Philippines, and San Francisco.
About SolarWinds
SolarWinds builds IT operations and observability software used by IT departments and MSPs to monitor networks, servers, databases, applications, logs, and help desks. It sells subscriptions and licenses for on-premises and SaaS products such as SolarWinds Observability and the Orion Platform; founded in 1999 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker SWI.