Analytics Architect — People Data Foundations (Remote UK)

Gofractional; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleo's is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer to own the architecture and modelling for our People data foundation. You will partner with People systems, data platform, security and privacy teams to turn source data into trusted datasets for leadership use.

This time-bound assignment requires independent decision-making, collaboration across Analytics, Security, Privacy and the People team, and deliverables that remain maintainable after handover. Remote from the UK.

Qualifications

• Significant production Analytics Engineering experience, including technical leadership for a critical data domain.
• Expert SQL and dbt, with strong judgement on source, staging, intermediate, mart and semantic-layer design.
• Experience making architectural decisions about grain, history, slowly changing dimensions, incremental strategies, legacy boundaries and model contracts.
• Experience leading a source-system migration or cutover while preserving history and reconciling outputs.
• Strong data security and governance experience, including named access, least privilege, restricted schemas, masking or column controls, and auditable use of sensitive data.
• Experience using warehouse access and query logs to create useful monitoring, investigation evidence or alerts.
• Strong Git, PR review, testing, documentation and production-support habits.
• The ability to explain technical choices and trade-offs clearly to Analytics, Security and non-technical business owners.
• Evidence of leaving a complex data domain maintainable after handover.
• Sound judgement and discretion when working with confidential employee, compensation and performance information.

Responsibilities

• Contract: Up to six months, with a formal review at the end of month four.
• Team: People Analytics, partnering across Data and People.
• Lead Analytics Engineer to own the architecture and modelling for this work, partnering with People systems, data platform, security and privacy teams.
• This is a time-bound assignment; work is ordered by priority and new requests replace an agreed deliverable rather than stacking.
• Designing and building trusted models for hiring and applicant-tracking data from Ashby, and talent and performance data from HiBob.
• Strengthening the core employee model to reliably represent employees, jobs, teams, managers and change over time.
• Bringing engagement and survey data into the People data foundation in a consistent and reusable way.
• Setting clear model boundaries, grain, naming, tests, documentation and data contracts across the People domain.
• Identifying and resolving duplicate, legacy or conflicting People models without breaking downstream use.
• Designing a secure architecture for compensation, workforce cost and other highly restricted fields.
• Designing and building a People data access-audit layer with identifiable queries and alerts.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Git

Redshift

Airflow

Data governance

Leadership

Architectural design

Job description

Cleo's is seeking a Lead Analytics Engineer to own the architecture and modelling for our People data foundation. You will partner with People systems, data platform, security and privacy teams to turn source data into trusted datasets for leadership use.

This time-bound assignment requires independent decision-making, collaboration across Analytics, Security, Privacy and the People team, and deliverables that remain maintainable after handover. Remote from the UK.