Senior Analytics Engineer

Soho House & Co; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Every House Membership

50% off Food & Drink

Staff Room Rates

Private Health and Dental Care

Weekly Pay

Life Assurance

Staff Discounts on Cowshed & Soho Home

In Office Dog Policy on Fridays

Season Ticket Loan

Christmas Office Closure

2 days paid to charity (Soho Impact)

Job summary

Soho House & Co is seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to join its data team in London to enhance the data platform. You will develop advanced analytics features in the transformations layer, optimise performance, and collaborate with data engineers to ensure scalable pipelines.

The role requires expert SQL, dbt Core/Cloud, Snowflake, and managing semantic layers for BI tools such as Omni or Looker. You will also steward data observability and GitHub-based workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL data modelling for analytics and reporting.
• Experience building scalable dbt transformations and materialisations.
• Familiarity with Snowflake performance tuning and AI functions.
• Experience administering dbt Cloud and scheduling workflows.
• Experience with semantic layers for BI tools (Omni/Looker).
• Knowledge of data observability tools and data quality practices.
• Experience collaborating with data engineering teams on pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop advanced SQL transformations in dbt to support complex analytics.
• Optimise dbt performance and materialisations to reduce build times.
• Set up dbt projects with stable, scalable codebases and best practices.
• Administer dbt Cloud (Fusion) including scheduling and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data engineers to integrate transformation with ingestion layers.
• Implement data observability to monitor data quality and reliability.
• Manage semantic layer in Omni to ensure governed metrics are available.
• Maintain GitHub repos with tests and CI workflows.
• Contribute to master data management docs and coding standards.

Skills

Advanced SQL

dbt Core/Cloud

Snowflake

Semantic layer concepts

Omni

Looker

GitHub workflows

Data pipelines

Tools

dbt Cloud

Snowflake

Omni

Looker

GitHub

Job description

The Role..

We are looking for an experienced Analytics Engineer to join our data team to enhance our data-platform. This role will develop advanced analytics features into our transformations layer, optimise performance, and work with data engineers to ensure scalability and robustness.

Candidates for the role will have proven expertise in developing complex and performant SQL data models, with a deep understanding of dbt Core or dbt Cloud and Snowflake. The ideal candidate will have experience managing semantic layer based BI tools, such as Omni or Looker.

Key Responsibilities..

• Develop advanced and performant SQL transformations in dbt to support complex analytics and reporting needs, ensuring optimised performance in handling large-scale data.
• Optimise sql codebase for Snowflake credit spend and dbt build times, tune materialisations and incremental models, and report against build KPIs.
• Set up and manage dbt projects to ensure that the codebase is stable, scalable, and maintainable, adhering to best practices for long-term success.
• Administer and manage dbt Cloud (Fusion), including scheduling and job monitoring.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure our transformation layer integrates seamlessly with our ingestion layer, enabling end-to-end analytics pipelines.
• Implement and manage data observability processes and tools to monitor and ensure data quality, accuracy, and reliability.
• Administer our semantic layer in Omni (Omni.co) to ensure transformed business data and governed metrics are available for end-users.
• Manage our GitHub repository, ensuring version control best practices, implementation of automated testing workflows, and seamless collaboration between teams.
• Contribute to the development of master data management documentation and coding standards.

Required Skills And Experience..

• Expertise in advanced SQL and data modelling techniques utilising dbt, with a strong emphasis on performant and optimised transformations for complex analytics and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, including familiarity with its SQL dialect, performance tuning features and AI functions.
• Experience administering dbt Cloud, setting up scalable and maintainable projects, and scheduling workflows.
• Experience working with semantic layers for BI tooling, including defining metrics and relationships, ensuring data availability, user access and performance. Omni or Looker strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of data observability tools and processes to monitor data quality and identify anomalies.
• Experience managing GitHub repositories, including version control, automated testing workflows, and fostering team collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with data engineering teams to build new data pipelines and integrate transformation layers seamlessly with ingestion layers.

Preferred Experience..

• Use of AI for coding workflows. Claude Code preferred.
• AI context for semantic layers, especially in Omni. Curate AI context, field descriptions and sample queries in the semantic layer so AI assistants answer questions accurately.
• Experience in the hospitality industry and familiarity with hospitality-specific data and KPIs.

Benefits

Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks. Whether you’re seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to grow your career.

• Annual Every House Membership
• 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
• Staff Room Rates
• Private Health and Dental Care
• Weekly Pay
• Life Assurance
• Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
• In Office Dog Policy on Fridays
• Season Ticket Loan
• Christmas Office Closure
• In conjunction with Soho Impact, take 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice.
• Free Counselling Sessions
• Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
• Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
• Exclusive access to our benefits platform with hundreds of discounts on shopping, gym memberships, holidays, insurance and much more
• Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to.