Senior Analytics Engineer, AI-Native Self-Service

Scribd, Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 149,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scribd Flex (flexible work model)

Health, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off & sabbaticals

Parental leave & family support

Job summary

Scribd, Inc. is seeking Principal & Lead Analytics Engineers to scale data for an AI-native organization.

You will shape foundations, modeling standards, and development practices, while serving as a senior individual contributor, guiding decisions and improving data quality across teams. Your role focuses on aligning data investments with company priorities, advancing governance, and delivering reliable, scalable data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence engineering or a related discipline.
• Deep understanding of governed, canonical data models and semantic layers for authoritative business concepts.
• Experience designing data quality, observability, documentation, governance, access control, privacy, lineage, and evaluation systems.
• Experience designing canonical data models and semantic layers to support self-serve analytics at scale for multiple business teams.
• Advanced SQL skills and production experience with modern data stack (AWS, Databricks, Airbyte, Fivetran, Looker).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional data initiatives from strategy through production adoption.
• Strong judgment balancing immediate needs with long-term reusable data products and governance.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical foundations, modeling standards, and development practices for Analytics Engineering.
• Lead as a senior individual contributor with high quality of decisions across teams.
• Connect Analytics Engineering investments to company priorities and communicate tradeoffs to leaders.
• Drive data modeling, architecture, governance, quality, tooling, and developer experience.
• Move projects forward with a pragmatic plan and clear short-term next steps.

Skills

Analytics engineering

Data governance

Data modeling

SQL

Data quality

Data architecture

Communication

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Airbyte

Fivetran

Looker

Job description

Scribd, Inc. is seeking Principal & Lead Analytics Engineers to scale data for an AI-native organization.

You will shape foundations, modeling standards, and development practices, while serving as a senior individual contributor, guiding decisions and improving data quality across teams. Your role focuses on aligning data investments with company priorities, advancing governance, and delivering reliable, scalable data platforms.