Principal Analytics Engineer: Data Layer & Metrics

DataJobs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Paid time off

Commuter benefits

401k matching

Summer Fridays

Catered lunches

Well-stocked kitchen

Team events

Job summary

AMP, based in New York, is assembling a founding analytics team to create an analytics data foundation trustworthy to product and business teams. The principal role will define canonical metrics, build a data layer, and scale self-service analytics supporting experimentation, diagnostics, and reproducible workflows.

This onsite position is in New York, NY with a salary range of USD 220,000 - 260,000 per year.

Qualifications

• Exceptional SQL and dimensional or data modeling skills.
• Experience building production analytical datasets across database systems such as Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, or equivalent modern data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with BI or self-service analytics tools including Sigma and Tableau, plus data app solutions like R Shiny, Streamlit, and ChatGPT Sites.
• Strong, opinionated views on analytics engineering working models, focused on durable measurement with immediacy and reproducibility, and choosing the right tools for the project (dashboards, data apps, or reusable Python notebooks).
• Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into durable analytical data models.
• A tendency to write clear narratives that explain both solution architecture and the insights the designs uncover.

Responsibilities

• Build the Analytics Data Layer: create analytics-ready datasets and reusable models for core marketplace concepts, partnering with Data Engineering to convert raw data into tested, production-quality analytical entities.
• Establish trusted metrics: define and encode canonical metrics with Product, Finance, Measurement, and other stakeholders, and maintain governance.
• Enable product analytics: build datasets for funnels, cohorts, product adoption, diagnostics, experimentation, and causal analysis; support teams in understanding changes.

Skills

SQL

Dimensional modeling

Data analytics engineering

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

Tableau

Sigma

Python

R Shiny

Streamlit

ChatGPT Sites

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

AWS

R Shiny

Streamlit

ChatGPT Sites

Tableau

Job description

AMP, based in New York, is assembling a founding analytics team to create an analytics data foundation trustworthy to product and business teams. The principal role will define canonical metrics, build a data layer, and scale self-service analytics supporting experimentation, diagnostics, and reproducible workflows.

This onsite position is in New York, NY with a salary range of USD 220,000 - 260,000 per year.