Head of Data & Analytics Engineering

Apartment List; United States; On-site; USD 177,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Apartment List is seeking a senior leader to unify data engineering and analytics engineering under one function. You will own the end-to-end technical roadmap, review architecture decisions, and drive platform investments that enable trusted data and scalable analytics across the business.

You will directly manage Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, set hiring and performance standards, and partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and other stakeholders to align on priorities and

Qualifications

• Own the end-to-end technical roadmap for Data & Analytics Engineering.
• Directly manage Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, setting hiring, growth, and performance expectations.

Responsibilities

• Make and defend the case for platform and architecture investments.
• Set standards for testing, monitoring, documentation, and code quality.
• Translate ambiguous data needs into a scoped, sequenced roadmap and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
• Represent the team's priorities, risks, and investment needs in cross-functional planning.

Skills

Data engineering leadership

End-to-end data production

Data architecture reviews

SQL modeling

Technical roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Looker

Tableau

dbt

Data warehousing

Job description

Apartment List is seeking a senior leader to unify data engineering and analytics engineering under one function. You will own the end-to-end technical roadmap, review architecture decisions, and drive platform investments that enable trusted data and scalable analytics across the business.

You will directly manage Analytics Engineers and Data Engineers, set hiring and performance standards, and partner with Product, Data Science, Marketing, and other stakeholders to align on priorities and