Data Engineer II

Drips; Akron (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Drips is seeking a Data Engineer II to join the Data & Reporting team. You will translate business questions into clear reporting solutions, build data pipelines, and deliver trusted dashboards.

The role emphasizes strong SQL skills, clarifying complex reporting needs, and turning raw data into actionable insights. You will partner with business stakeholders and technical teammates to understand requirements, validate data, and support a scalable self-service data environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics, BI, or a closely related role.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to work independently on complex requests.
• Experience building dashboards and analyses that help stakeholders decide.
• Ability to clarify vague reporting needs into structured deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Understand reporting needs, clarify questions, and define analytical approach.
• Write and refine SQL queries to extract and analyze data from core systems.
• Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reports delivering clear insights.
• Work across backend data sources including Salesforce to support reporting.
• Validate data quality, investigate discrepancies, and troubleshoot outputs.
• Translate findings into clear, usable summaries for operational and leadership audiences.
• Support governed, scalable data products and self-service reporting.
• Contribute to documentation and repeatable reporting standards.

Skills

SQL

Dashboard creation

Data validation

Stakeholder communication

ETL pipelines

Tools

Tableau

Salesforce

Job description

About The Role

The Data Engineer II is a senior individual contributor on the Data & Reporting team responsible for translating business questions into clear reporting solutions, building data pipelines, conceptualizing and delivering trusted dashboards and analyses, and helping stakeholders move faster with better data. This role is best suited for someone with strong SQL skills, experience clarifying complex reporting needs, and the ability to turn raw backend data into actionable insights.

Job Description: Data Engineer II

The Data Engineer II is a senior individual contributor on the Data & Reporting team responsible for translating business questions into clear reporting solutions, building data pipelines, conceptualizing and delivering trusted dashboards and analyses, and helping stakeholders move faster with better data. This role is best suited for someone with strong SQL skills, experience clarifying complex reporting needs, and the ability to turn raw backend data into actionable insights.

This role partners closely with business stakeholders and technical teammates to understand reporting needs, validate data, improve reporting outputs, and support a more scalable self-service data environment over time.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with internal stakeholders to understand reporting needs, clarify business questions, and define the right analytical approach.
• Write and refine SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze data from core business systems.
• Build, maintain, and improve dashboards and recurring reporting assets that deliver clear, accurate insights to teams across the business.
• Work across backend data sources, including systems such as Salesforce and Manage, to support reporting and analysis needs.
• Validate data quality, investigate discrepancies, and troubleshoot reporting issues to improve trust in outputs.
• Translate complex findings into clear, usable summaries for both operational and leadership audiences.
• Support the broader shift toward governed, accessible data products and more scalable reporting practices.
• Contribute to documentation, repeatable reporting standards, and continuous improvement of team workflows.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, reporting, or a closely related role.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to work independently across complex reporting requests.
• Experience building dashboards and analytical outputs that help stakeholders make decisions.
• Ability to clarify vague or complex reporting requests and convert them into structured deliverables.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and data validation instincts.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort working across multiple systems and data sources in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Tableau or similar BI tools.
• Experience working with Salesforce, operational reporting, or client-facing reporting needs.
• Familiarity with data governance, standardized definitions, and self-service reporting models.
• Experience partnering with data engineers or working in an environment with evolving data platform capabilities.

What Success Looks Like

• Stakeholders receive faster, clearer, and more trusted answers to reporting questions.
• Dashboards and recurring reports are accurate, maintainable, and aligned to business definitions.
• Reporting requests are better scoped up front, reducing rework and confusion.
• Data issues and discrepancies are identified and resolved quickly.
• The team is better positioned to scale reporting through governed data sources and self-service access over time.