Analytics Engineer

Greystar Worldwide, LLC; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Greystar Worldwide, LLC is seeking an Analytics Engineer within the Decision Intelligence team to turn data foundations into usable products like dashboards, predictive models, and lightweight web apps. You will work closely with engineers, designers, and product leaders to turn business questions into data insights and actionable recommendations.

You’ll use SQL, Python, Databricks, and AI tools daily to build, test, and deploy data products that inform decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a high-performing analytics/analytics engineering or data team
• Academic background in Analytics, CS, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or equivalent
• Advanced SQL and data modeling experience with grain, keys, referential integrity
• Strong Python skills for data analysis, automation, and tooling
• Experience building data models/pipelines on modern lakehouse/warehouse platforms

Responsibilities

• Own initiatives end to end from question to data product deployment
• Build data products (dashboards, models, web apps) and iterate with users
• Work with AI tooling daily to design faster and smarter solutions
• Ensure data quality, governance, testing, and monitoring across products

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Data modeling

Lakehouse/Warehouse

Education

Quantitative field degree

Tools

Databricks

Lakehouse/Warehouse platforms

Job description

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $350 billion of real estate in more than 260 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing over one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms, Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management, including over $34 billion of development assets and over $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more, visit www.greystar.com.

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Greystar's D²AI organization (Data, Digital, and AI) is responsible for the platforms, processes, and practices that power analytics and AI across the company. This role sits on Decision Intelligence, the team within D²AI that turns that capability into better business decisions. The name is the mandate: we exist to make the company's decisions faster, sharper, and better informed, not simply to produce reports. We require AI fluency because this role sits at the intersection of data, technology, and business outcomes. That means understanding how AI systems are designed and operationalized, using AI-enabled tools in your day-to-day work, and partnering effectively with engineering, analytics, and business teams so the solutions we ship are reliable, responsible, and impactful.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Greystar is building the data foundation that will power the most AI-advanced operator in global multifamily real estate. As an Analytics Engineer on one of Decision Intelligence's forward-deployed pods, you'll turn that foundation into working data products that a business team uses to make decisions every day, whether those are traditional dashboards, predictive models, or lightweight web apps. Our team includes engineers, designers, and product leaders with experience from Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Strava, and Amazon.

You'll spend most of your time devoted to one critical area of the business rather than behind a ticket queue. You'll learn its data, workflows, and real pain points firsthand, then use SQL, Python, Databricks, and AI tooling to build the product that solves the actual problem. AI is core to how this team works, not an afterthought: you're expected to use it daily to build faster, and we'll actively support you in doing that well. In practice, that means pods regularly ship predictive models and working web applications, the kind of work that would have required a dedicated engineering team not long ago.

Once you pick up an initiative, we expect you to own your piece from question through delivery, hand it off cleanly, and move to the next. Some initiatives will play to a deep specialty; others will ask you to learn a new part of the business fast. Comfort with that kind of movement is part of the job. As your understanding of the business deepens, you'll grow from answering its questions to bringing it recommendations of your own, and you'll be a confident, trusted voice in the room, from working sessions with on-site operators to briefings with senior leaders and executives.

What You'll Do

Own Initiatives End to End

• Take assigned initiatives from the original business question through a data product people actually use to decide, staying with the work through deployment and handoff.
• Embed inside your assigned area of the business, learning its goals, data, and workflows well enough to spot the highest-value opportunities yourself.
• As your understanding deepens, bring the business proactive recommendations, not just answers to the questions it already knows to ask.
• Default to doing it right; when speed is genuinely required, ship a usable solution with a documented path back to the governed, certified standard.

Build Data Products That Drive Decisions

• Ship a working data product quickly, ranging from a dashboard to a statistical model to a lightweight web app, then iterate live with the people who will use it.
• Build and maintain the data models behind those products in Databricks and SQL, with real rigor around grain, keys, and referential integrity so results hold up under scrutiny.
• Design sound experiments and measurement plans to establish baselines and prove out program impact, keeping correlation and causation distinct.
• Present findings, trade-offs, and recommendations to stakeholders ranging from on-site operators to senior leaders and executives, tailoring the message to the audience.
• Identify which products are worth graduating to shared platforms such as the Greystar Performance System (GPS), our platform for enterprise reporting, and Podium, our internally built platform for enabling and governing AI use. Partner with platform teams to scale them enterprise-wide.
• Contribute reusable patterns, tooling, and documentation that raise the speed and quality of every pod. We treat documentation as part of delivery, not an afterthought.

Work AI-First

• Use AI tools and techniques, including LLMs, AI coding assistants, and automation, to build faster yourself and to design smarter, more efficient solutions for the business.
• Build data models and products that AI tools can consume reliably, including work that surfaces through MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations and other LLM-powered interfaces.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-powered analytics tooling, from AI-assisted cataloging to intelligent data quality monitoring.
• Collaborate with other engineers and analysts on AI integration patterns, prompt engineering, and modern development practices. We are an AI-forward team and it's moving fast, so we test, iterate, share, and repeat.

Drive Data Quality and Trust

• Treat data quality as a core part of the job, not someone else's problem. Our solutions are only as good as the data underneath them.
• Validate the data behind every product you ship, and build in testing, monitoring, and anomaly detection so problems surface before business users find them.
• When data is wrong, incomplete, or untrustworthy, raise it clearly and navigate the organization to get it resolved, working across data engineering, source system owners, and business partners until the root cause is fixed.
• Follow data governance practices including access controls, PII handling, and appropriate use of data in AI systems.
• Document known limitations and caveats alongside every product, so the people using it understand what the data can and cannot tell them.

What You'll Bring

Analytics Engineering Excellence

• 3+ years in a high-performing analytics, analytics engineering, or data team, with a track record of owning work end to end rather than executing assigned tasks.
• Academic background in a quantitative field (Analytics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Statistics) or equivalent practical experience.
• Advanced SQL and hands‑on data modeling experience, with a firm grasp of grain, keys, referential integrity, and what it takes to trust a data asset.
• Strong, hands‑on Python skills for data analysis, automation, and building tools, not just one‑off scripting.
• Experience building or maintaining data models and pipelines on a modern lakehouse or warehouse platform,