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What's cool about this job?
WP Engine is on a mission to help our customers win online! Whether that’s helping an aspiring entrepreneur to turn a hobby into an online business or a multinational corporation to launch a new campaign in weeks instead of months, our platform is there to help them win — whatever that means for them.We are searching for an Analytics Engineer to help construct a contextualized view of our data. These data assets will be used across business & data analytics teams and will become the core repository for their data needs.
As an Analytics Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of these groups and will be responsible for delivering trusted, robust and valuable data assets. In addition you will maintain and incorporate changes over time as the business needs change. We are looking for an individual who cares about organizing data into reusable and maintainable components and can bring their energy to helping us grow this function at WP Engine. Our culture is renowned; we believe it is meaningful to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you are great at solving problems, a hard worker with excellent interpersonal skills, and enjoy working across different time zones and cultures, you may be the person that we are looking for!
The day to day.
Work closely with business stakeholders in Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance & Customer Experience to design valuable data models
Develop, deliver and maintain dbt code to advance our Unified Analytics Model as the trusted source for valuable data
Create and maintain system, data and architectural documentation related to data assets (ERDs) maintained by Analytics Engineering
Be an advocate for maintaining high quality and highly maintainable data assets through best practices and standards
Review code contributions to the Unified Analytics Model, educating on best practices and hygiene that lead to healthy data models
Identify & develop process improvements that result in an improved Analytics Engineering practice
Write test cases that ensure continued high quality data is surfaced and protected from changes
Manage & improve our CI/CD practice to automate the delivery of high quality code
Your skills and expertise.
Genuine passion about technology and solving problems with new tools & techniques
Have an advanced understanding of how to organize & normalize data (data modeling) through data build tool (dbt)
Automation mindset through testing & tooling resulting in high confidence delivery
SQL skills - clean, readable, high quality code
SQL debugging skills and query performance optimisation
Experience working with git
Experience working with one of the major cloud data warehouses (GCloud, Azure, AWS, BigQuery preferable)
Experience working within an Agile team, delivering iterative value every sprint
Ability to work effectively with a remote team across multiple time zones
Driven and self motivated with excellent organizational skills
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Ability to understand, document and convert business requirements into data models
Previous experience in an engineering focused role preferably developing in Python
2+ years software engineering experience
2+ years working on delivering data assets
1+ year working with dbt and SQL
The perks and benefits.
Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
Matched pension plan
VHI Healthcare & Dental
Tax free annual wellness benefit through Clevercards
Employee Assistance Program
Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
One-time €450 Home Office Stipend
Employee Resource Groups
4 Company Wellness Days
Wellness Program
Calm App Subscription
At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.#LI-JK1At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique.
WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
