Remote Principal Analytics Engineer - Semantic Layer AI

Zillow; United States; On-site; USD 136,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal Analytics Engineer to scale BI and analytics across the company. You will shape semantic layer architecture and lead cross-organizational data initiatives to ensure trusted metrics and AI-ready data.

You will mentor senior analytics engineers, influence tooling decisions (dbt, Databricks, Snowflake) and partner with executives to evolve the data platform in support of company objectives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, visualization, or a related technical data role.
• Experience shipping customer facing, production grade reporting on time and accurately every day.
• Expert-level SQL and data modeling skills with experience designing data architectures that span multiple business domains.
• Excellent communication and partner management skills, with a consistent ability to gain alignment and influence across product development, engineering, analytics, finance, sales and operations.
• Deep experience with semantic layer design, metrics-as-code patterns, and data governance at organizational scale.
• Strong understanding of how AI systems, conversational analytics tools, and machine learning workflows consume structured data.
• Experience evaluating and adopting analytics engineering tooling at the organizational level (dbt, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar).
• Here at Zillow - we value the experience and perspective of candidates with non-traditional backgrounds. We encourage you to apply if you have transferable skills or related experiences.

Responsibilities

• Dive deep into Zillow's internal and third party data to model data that accurately reflect our customer journey and business processes.
• Design a reusable, modular semantic layer that makes metrics and dimensions consumable across BI tools, data science workflows, and AI systems, while promoting consistency across those surfaces.
• Lead cross-organizational data initiatives that align with company strategy and roadmap planning.
• Drive alignment on metric definitions and data governance standards across business lines.
• Influence build-versus-buy decisions for analytics tooling, semantic layer platforms, and data governance systems.
• Mentor senior analytics engineers as well as shape strategic direction and technical standards for analytics engineering across the organization.
• Partner with executive stakeholders to influence how the data infrastructure must evolve to support company objectives.
• Operate high availability data and reporting within SLA through quality alerting, detecting issues before customers and resolving with a sense of urgency.

Skills

Analytics engineering

SQL mastery

Data modeling

Semantic layer

Data governance

AI data workflows

Tooling evaluation

Tools

dbt

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Zillow Group is seeking a Principal Analytics Engineer to scale BI and analytics across the company. You will shape semantic layer architecture and lead cross-organizational data initiatives to ensure trusted metrics and AI-ready data.

You will mentor senior analytics engineers, influence tooling decisions (dbt, Databricks, Snowflake) and partner with executives to evolve the data platform in support of company objectives.