Analytics Engineer, Growth & Placement

Acrisure; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation policy

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vested 401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and sick time

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and

Calm App subscription

Commuter benefits

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Acrisure is seeking an Analytics Engineer for its Growth & Placement team across Austin, TX or Grand Rapids, MI. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and models to enable strategic insights for senior leadership.

You will extend dbt models on BigQuery, and build Palantir Foundry ontologies and workflows. This is a growth-stage, high-visibility position on a small team with opportunities to influence the data layer and stakeholder reporting, including C-suite

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in analytics engineering or a closely related data infrastructure role.
• Strong SQL skills across a modern cloud data warehouse.
• Hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent transformation framework.
• Demonstrated ability to build data pipelines from scratch, including sourcing and delivery.
• Genuine interest in Palantir Foundry and willingness to develop expertise.
• Comfort operating in a small, fast-moving team with ambiguity.
• Business-focused mindset: care about why a pipeline exists, not just if it runs.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Stats or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines from ingestion to delivery with reliability and performance.
• Develop and extend dbt models on top of the data warehouse, focusing on operational and SSOT layers.
• Build Palantir Foundry applications, Ontology objects, and workflows for analysts and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with analysts and BI teammates to meet downstream needs and shape upstream assets.
• Uphold data modeling best practices: documentation, Git version control, incremental builds, data quality tests.
• Leverage AI tools carefully to accelerate development while validating outputs.

Skills

SQL

dbt

Palantir Foundry

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Git

AI tooling skepticism

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Math/Stats

Tools

BigQuery

dbt

Palantir Foundry

Job description

AUSTIN, Texas

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan

Job ID: JR113875

Full time

Hybrid

Regular

Description

Analytics Engineer, Growth & Placement

Austin, TX | Grand Rapids, MI (Onsite 4 days per week)

Note: This is a full-time role. We do not offer C2C or C2H employment and are not able to sponsor visas for this position.

About Acrisure

Acrisure is a global fintech leader empowering millions of ambitious businesses and individuals with the right solutions to grow boldly forward. Bringing cutting-edge technology and top-tier human expertise together, we connect clients with customized solutions across insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage services, and more. In the last twelve years, Acrisure has grown in revenue from $38 million to almost $5 billion and employs over 19,000 colleagues in more than 20 countries.

The Role

Acrisure is investing significantly in its data infrastructure, most visibly through the adoption of Palantir Foundry as our enterprise analytics and application platform. The Growth & Placement Analytics team supporting the executive leadership of our North America Insurance business sits at the forefront of that buildout, producing the data assets that drive strategic decisions across the organization.

As an Analytics Engineer on the Growth & Placement team, you will design, build, and maintain the pipelines and data models that make the team's analytical work possible. You will work closely with senior engineers and analysts on the team to translate strategic and operational questions into reliable, well-modeled data assets — extending dbt models on BigQuery, building Palantir Foundry Ontology objects and workflows, and standing up new pipelines end-to-end.

Palantir Foundry experience is a differentiator but is not required. We are pragmatic about where we set the bar. What matters most is that you have a strong foundation in data modeling and a genuine willingness to become expert in Palantir's ecosystem as part of your growth at Acrisure. If you know dbt and BigQuery or another data warehouse well, we can teach you the rest.

This is a growth-stage role on a small, high-visibility team that is still defining how it operates. You will have meaningful influence over how the data layer takes shape, and your work will directly enable insights that reach senior executive stakeholders, including members of the C-suite.

How You'll Drive Impact

• Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines — from raw source ingestion through transformation, modeling, and delivery — with reliability and performance in mind.


• Develop and extend dbt models on top of Acrisure's data warehouse, with particular focus on the operational and SSOT data layers that underpin enterprise reporting.


• Build Palantir Foundry applications, Ontology objects, and workflows that surface data to analysts and business stakeholders in forms they can act on moving the team beyond ad hoc querying toward scalable, reusable tooling.


• Partner closely with analysts and business intelligence teammates to understand downstream needs and engineer upstream data assets accordingly.


• Uphold data modeling best practices in the work you touch: clear documentation, version control via Git, incremental build strategies, and data quality testing.


• Leverage AI tools (Claude, Palantir AI FDE, Gemini, and others) to accelerate development, while applying rigorous critical evaluation to any AI-generated code or logic before it ships.


• Contribute to the pod's overall data strategy, surface infrastructure gaps, raise architectural improvements, and help shape how the Growth & Placement pod's data layer evolves.

You May Be a Fit If You Have

• 4–6 years of professional experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or a closely related data infrastructure role.


• Strong SQL skills across a modern cloud data warehouse.


• Hands-on experience with dbt or an equivalent transformation framework — you understand the mechanics of models, tests, documentation, and incremental materialization strategies.


• Demonstrated ability to build data pipelines from scratch, including sourcing, transformation logic, and delivery layer.


• A genuine interest in learning Palantir Foundry and the intellectual openness to develop deep expertise as part of your growth on the team.


• Comfort operating in ambiguity within a small, fast-moving team — you can manage your own priorities and communicate when support is needed.


• A business-aligned mindset: you care about why a pipeline exists, not just whether it runs.


• A skeptic's relationship with AI tools — you use them to move faster, but you validate outputs and take responsibility for the code you ship.


• A bachelor's degree in computer science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with Palantir Foundry — even tangential exposure is valued.


• Python proficiency, particularly for data transformation, pipeline orchestration, or scripting.


• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or other BI platforms used for delivery to business stakeholders.


• Experience in insurance, financial services, or other data-intensive B2B industries.


• Exposure to agile development practices, Git-based workflows, and project tracking tools like Jira.

Candidates should be comfortable with an on-site presence to support collaboration, team leadership, and cross-functional partnership.

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive compensation


• Generous vacation policy, paid holidays, and paid sick time


• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (employee-paid)


• Company-paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance


• Company-paid Group Life insurance


• Company-paid Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Calm App subscription


• Employee-paid Pet Insurance and optional supplemental insurance coverage


• Vested 401(k) with company match and financial wellness programs


• FSA, HSA, and commuter benefits options


• Paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, and fertility benefits


• Career growth and learning opportunities

Please note: This list is not reflective of all benefits. Enrollment waiting periods or eligibility criteria may apply to certain benefits. Offerings may vary based on subsidiary entity or geographic location.

Please note: This list is not reflective of all benefits. Enrollment waiting periods or eligibility criteria may apply to certain benefits. Offerings may vary based on subsidiary entity or geographic location.

Making a lasting impact on the communities it serves, Acrisure has pledged more than $22 million through its partnerships with Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, New York.

Acrisure is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

At Acrisure, we firmly believe that an inclusive workforce drives innovation, creativity, and ultimately, our collective success.

We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. Acrisure also has a longstanding policy of providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of employment discrimination.

Acrisure also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief, in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about an accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [e-mail].

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