Job Title
Data Analytics Engineer
Job Description Summary
As the Data & Analytics Engineer, you will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, and organized datasets that enable reliable analytics, reporting, and business decision-making across strategic client accounts. You will translate business and data requirements into durable technical solutions, with hands-on ownership of data ingestion, transformation, integration, quality, and preparation for downstream business intelligence and visualization.
As a member of Cushman & Wakefield's Portfolio Advisory Group, the Data & Analytics Engineer will be dedicated to one or more of Cushman & Wakefield's most dynamic client accounts. In this role, you will collaborate closely with peers and the account team to support a client's strategic real estate vision. The Data & Analytics Engineer will embody our team philosophy "Client First, Insight Always, Execution Excellence", ensuring every deliverable reflects the team's commitment to innovation, collaboration, and measurable impact.
This role will primarily:
- Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data structures that integrate information from multiple sources and make trusted data accessible for analytics and reporting.
- Transform, model, validate, and organize data so stakeholders can rely on consistent datasets for dashboards, visualization, reporting, and decision support.
- Translate client and business requirements into practical data engineering solutions using Databricks or Microsoft Fabric, SQL, and related technologies.
- Improve data accessibility, reliability, and delivery efficiency through automation, data quality controls, documentation, and technical process improvement.
Success in this role looks like:
- Data pipelines consistently deliver reliable, accurate, and accessible datasets for downstream analytics and stakeholder-facing solutions.
- Data models and transformations support scalable reporting and reduce dependence on manual data preparation.
- Data quality controls and documentation improve confidence, consistency, and usability across analytics outputs.
- Business requirements are translated into maintainable technical solutions that stakeholders and analytics teams can effectively use.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Pipeline Development
- Design, develop, maintain, and troubleshoot ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest, transform, validate, and deliver data from multiple sources into centralized data platforms.
- Build and optimize data processing workflows using Databricks or Microsoft Fabric to support scalable analytics and reporting requirements.
- Automate and improve recurring data processes to strengthen pipeline performance, reliability, and operational efficiency.
Data Modeling & Integration
- Develop and maintain structured data models, including dimensional models where appropriate, that support business intelligence, dashboards, reporting, and analytical use cases.
- Integrate and organize data from multiple source systems into accessible, consistent datasets designed for downstream consumption.
- Prepare and transform data to enable visualization, reporting, business analysis, and stakeholder decision-making.
Data Quality, Governance & Reliability
- Implement data validation, quality controls, governance practices, and documentation that improve the accuracy and reliability of analytical data.
- Identify and resolve data issues, inconsistencies, and pipeline failures that could affect reporting quality or stakeholder confidence.
- Document data structures, transformations, business rules, and technical processes to support transparency, maintainability, and consistent use.
Business Intelligence & Data Accessibility
- Develop datasets and data structures that enable dashboards, visualization, reporting, and other stakeholder-facing analytical solutions.
- Support dashboard and visualization development using Power BI or comparable business intelligence platforms.
- Improve how business users and analytics teams access and use trusted data for recurring reporting and decision support.
Stakeholder Partnership & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with client stakeholders, analytics teams, business leaders, and technical partners to gather requirements and translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Communicate technical concepts, data limitations, dependencies, and delivery progress clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate data workflows, reduce manual processes, improve maintainability, and support geospatial or location-intelligence requirements where applicable.
Qualifications
Must-Have Requirements
Approximately 3-4+ years of relevant experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, business intelligence, or a closely related field.
Hands-on experience with Databricks or Microsoft Fabric, including practical experience developing data solutions rather than solely consuming platf