Lead Analytics Engineer — Remote Data & BI Strategy

Tiko; Portugal; Remote; EUR 53,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Personal development budget €500/year

Unlimited holidays

Culture of trust

Job summary

Tiko is seeking an Analytics Engineering Lead who bridges raw data engineering and business insights. You will mentor a team to design, build, and maintain clean, reliable data models that power analytics, dashboards and operational workflows.

You will set the technical vision for our analytics environment, collaborate with Engineering, Product, Finance and Operations, and champion data quality, CI/CD, and self-serve data across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Analytics Engineering.
• Leadership experience: able to mentor data teams.
• Strong experience with dbt, SQL, and analytics-focused data modelling.
• Deep understanding of dimensional modelling, ELT/ETL design, and data quality practices.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Git, and modern data stack tooling.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices: testing, PRs, code reviews, environments.
• Strong communication skills and excellent English.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and grow the analytics engineering team and foster a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to align data efforts with business goals.
• Data Modeling & Transformation; design, development, and maintenance of scalable DBT and Tableau data models.
• Create clean semantic layers with validated metrics and business logic.
• Optimise transformations for performance, cost, and maintainability.
• Translate business questions into well-structured data models with analytics engineers.
• Ensure upstream pipelines and schemas support downstream needs with Data Engineers.
• Build documentation, playbooks, and self-serve layers for stakeholders.
• Own development of reusable metrics and business definitions for reporting.
• Drive data modelling standards and contribute to the data quality framework.

Job description

Tiko is seeking an Analytics Engineering Lead who bridges raw data engineering and business insights. You will mentor a team to design, build, and maintain clean, reliable data models that power analytics, dashboards and operational workflows.

You will set the technical vision for our analytics environment, collaborate with Engineering, Product, Finance and Operations, and champion data quality, CI/CD, and self-serve data across the organization.