Onsite Senior Analytics Engineer—AI-Driven BI Leader

01 FirstDay Foundation; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstDay Foundation seeks an experienced Senior Analytics Engineer to modernize our analytics ecosystem, delivering scalable BI, AI-assisted development, and executive dashboards. The role emphasizes data engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, and rapid, measurable business impact.

You will partner with senior leaders to translate complex requirements into practical analytics solutions, design end‑to‑end data pipelines, and own secure access to enterprise data across systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise analytics, reporting, or business intelligence solutions.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL with complex query development, performance tuning, and data transformation.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale dashboards and executive visualizations.
• Experience with modern cloud-based data platforms and enterprise data ecosystems.
• Experience integrating data from multiple systems using APIs, REST, ETL/ELT or similar.
• Strong understanding of dimensional data modeling, data warehousing principles, and analytics architecture.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable analytics solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, able to present to executives.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to define analytics strategy.

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive leadership to translate business needs into scalable analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with security, IT, and other teams to secure data access across systems.
• Design, develop, and maintain end‑to‑end analytics, reporting, and executive dashboards.
• Build secure data integrations and automated data movement across platforms.
• Model semantic layers and reusable datasets for enterprise-wide use.
• Develop automated pipelines and orchestration for reliable delivery of insights.
• Deliver self-service analytics and train users on standards and best practices.
• Evaluate and adopt AI-assisted analytics capabilities where appropriate.
• Monitor performance, data quality, and governance across the analytics ecosystem.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Dashboarding

Cloud platforms

API integration

Communication

AI familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Business, or Information Systems

Tools

Tableau

Snowflake

Databricks

Power BI

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Python

dbt

Job description

FirstDay Foundation seeks an experienced Senior Analytics Engineer to modernize our analytics ecosystem, delivering scalable BI, AI-assisted development, and executive dashboards. The role emphasizes data engineering, cross‑functional collaboration, and rapid, measurable business impact.

You will partner with senior leaders to translate complex requirements into practical analytics solutions, design end‑to‑end data pipelines, and own secure access to enterprise data across systems.