Senior Analytics Engineer (12 Month Contract)

Data @ Coconut:

• We are currently in an exciting phase of growth, migrating our entire data estate from legacy Postgres and Redshift environments to a modern Databricks Lakehouse.
• Our stack is built for scale: Databricks for storage and compute, dbt for our transformation and semantic layer, and Looker (LookML) for business intelligence.
• We don't follow rigid Scrum, but we do work in an agile, iterative way, and try to continuously improve and implement what works for us.
• We work in a blameless culture and have a continuous improvement mindset.

YOU’RE FIRED UP ABOUT:

Team Elevation

• Mentor and support data analysts, data engineers and developers, fostering a collaborative and psychologically safe environment.
• Set high standards for technical excellence in SQL, dbt modeling, and LookML architecture.

Technical Delivery & Ownership

• Collaborate with other analytics engineers on the migration of legacy logic from Redshift/Postgres into performant Databricks silver and gold layers.
• Independently implement complex data models in dbt, demonstrating expertise in modularity, testing, and performance optimization on Spark.
• Own the LookML layer, ensuring our explores and dashboards are performant, intuitive, and accurate.
• Act as a 'Hybrid Analyst,' comfortably balancing long-term engineering projects with ad-hoc requests to support the business.
• Translate stakeholder questions into Looker-based reports and visualizations, ensuring the business has the right insights at the right time.

Data Architecture & System Design

• Lead technical data planning through discovery, design, and release, ensuring clear documentation for data catalogs and version tracking.
• Identify opportunities for 'data debt' reduction and architectural improvements in our Lakehouse and semantic layers.
• Proactively address system characteristics like latency and throughput, ensuring our data pipelines are optimized for cost and speed.

Product and Business Partnership

• Act as a subject matter expert in your data domain, contributing to business strategy to ensure we are measuring what matters.
• Provide engineering perspectives on the product roadmap, clearly communicating data feasibility and reporting limitations.

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM:

• 5+ years of applied experience in an Analytics Engineering or Data role