Founding Analytics Engineer — Semantic Layer & Metrics

Bauhinia Search Partners; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Bauhinia Search Partners is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in New York City with 5+ years in analytics engineering. You will own data definitions, the gold layer, and semantic modeling to ensure consistent metrics across dashboards, reports, and AI tools.

Join a fast-growing tech-enabled environment focusing on scalable data products, governance, and cost-aware analytics infrastructure, including Snowflake and dbt usage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics engineering, data analytics, or closely related field.
• Experience owning a semantic layer, metrics layer, or equivalent modeling framework.
• Experience defining metrics or data contracts adopted by multiple teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the gold layer and ensure core business metrics are modeled consistently.
• Design and maintain the semantic layer / metrics layer.
• Define metrics and data contracts adopted across teams.
• Partner with stakeholders to resolve disagreements around metric definitions.
• Establish trusted data products for dashboards, reporting, and AI consumers.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering to supervise analytics-layer modeling and governance.

Skills

Advanced SQL

dbt

Snowflake

Semantic layer ownership

Data contracts

Cross-functional communication

Education

Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (plus)

Tools

LookML

Looker

Cube

Sigma

Airbyte

Fivetran

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Bauhinia Search Partners is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in New York City with 5+ years in analytics engineering. You will own data definitions, the gold layer, and semantic modeling to ensure consistent metrics across dashboards, reports, and AI tools.

Join a fast-growing tech-enabled environment focusing on scalable data products, governance, and cost-aware analytics infrastructure, including Snowflake and dbt usage.