Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Who Are We?

The Motley Fool is a purpose-driven financial services company on a mission to make the world smarter, happier, and richer. For 30 years, we’ve been helping people make better investment decisions through transparency, education, and a healthy dose of Foolish fun. We’re a fast-moving, collaborative team that values high-quality work, curiosity, and initiative. We care deeply about what we do, and we’re driven by the impact our work has on real people’s financial futures.

What Does This Team Do?

Our Business Intelligence (BI) team plays a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining the data infrastructure that powers strategic decision-making across the entire organization. We architect scalable data pipelines, optimize analytical workflows, and deliver reliable, high-performance data products. The team acts as a bridge between technical backend infrastructure and business needs, ensuring our data platform is robust, maintainable, and built so the business can move faster with total confidence.

What Will You Do in This Role?

The Business Intelligence Engineer plays a vital role in driving our data and analytics infrastructure forward. You will partner closely with data engineers, analysts, product managers, and business stakeholders to architect robust data models, streamline transformation layers, and deliver high-impact insights. This role is ideal for a builder who is fluent in both data architecture and analytics, and who thrives in a fast-paced environment where they can guide data strategy.

Okay, but what will you actually do in this role?

• Serve as a senior BI partner for the Product team, owning data architecture, guiding data strategy, pipeline reliability, and the analytics engineering roadmap in support of business unit goals.
• Collaborate and consult directly with business teams to understand their strategy, economics, and goals, translating business questions into analytical frameworks.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and transformation layers (such as dbt models and ELT workflows) that power dashboards, reports, and ML features.
• Develop and maintain data marts, semantic layers, and self-serve tooling that empowers internal stakeholders to make smarter, faster decisions.
• Partner with analysts and product managers to instrument, design, and support A/B testing frameworks and experimentation infrastructure.
• Monitor data pipeline health by proactively identifying data quality issues and implementing robust observability and alerting frameworks.
• Work closely with data governance and data engineering to ensure data quality, lineage, and strict compliance with organizational standards.
• Apply ML engineering practices to productionize predictive models, support feature engineering pipelines, and facilitate audience segmentation and targeting workflows.
• Champion engineering best practices including peer code reviews, CI/CD for data pipelines, version control, and documentation standards.
• Stay informed about emerging trends in data science, analytics engineering, and the modern data stack.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You:

• Are deeply curious and love to learn. You enjoy digging into systems to understand how they work and thrive when solving a hard infrastructure or data modeling problem.
• Value high-performance, cross-functional collaboration and approach stakeholders with a consultative mindset to communicate timelines, trade-offs, and technical constraints clearly.
• Consider yourself both a builder a