Senior Analytics Engineer: Semantic Layer & Self-Serve BI

Explore Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Explore Group, a leading European tech scale-up, is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to bridge data engineering and commercial insights, taking full ownership of transformation and semantic layers in our analytics stack.

You will build scalable models with dbt on BigQuery, own the semantic layer and Looker dashboards for self-serve analytics, define core metrics, and optimise queries to control costs.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in Analytics Engineering or BI roles.
• Expert SQL and dimensional data modelling.
• Hands-on dbt and modern cloud data warehouses (BigQuery or Snowflake).
• Dashboard and semantic development in Looker (LookML preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management across product, commercial, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Bridge data engineering and commercial insights across teams.
• Build and maintain scalable data models using dbt and BigQuery (star schema/dimensional modelling).
• Own the semantic layer, Looker dashboards, and self-serve analytics.
• Define, govern, and standardise core business and operational metrics.
• Set up automated testing, CI/CD checks, and documentation in dbt.

Skills

Analytics Engineer

BI Developer

BI/Data Analyst

SQL scripting

Dimensional modelling

dbt

Looker LookML

BigQuery

Snowflake

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

Looker LookML

Job description

Explore Group, a leading European tech scale-up, is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to bridge data engineering and commercial insights, taking full ownership of transformation and semantic layers in our analytics stack.

You will build scalable models with dbt on BigQuery, own the semantic layer and Looker dashboards for self-serve analytics, define core metrics, and optimise queries to control costs.