Senior Analytics Engineer: AI-Ready Data Architect

Kelly Services; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly Services seeks a Senior Analytics Engineer in Boston to own analytics data architecture, semantic models, and scalable pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, Dagster, and AWS. You will shape data strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data, AI, and business teams in a hybrid work setting.

You will drive enterprise metrics, data quality, and governance while enabling AI-enabled analytics and ML workflows for reporting and AI-powered applications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in analytics engineering or a related technical field.
• Proven experience leading complex technical projects and making data architecture decisions.
• Expert-level SQL and Python skills.
• Extensive experience building data models and transformations using dbt or similar tools.
• Deep understanding of data architecture, dimensional modeling, lakehouse architecture, and semantic layer design.

Responsibilities

• 30% Data Architecture & Modeling: Architect scalable data models and lakehouse layers, establish modeling standards, and resolve complex data design and performance challenges.
• 25% Semantic Modeling & AI Context: Define enterprise metrics, business logic, semantic layers, metadata, and AI-ready interfaces that enable reliable analytics and AI applications.
• 20% Data & ML Pipeline Engineering: Design and optimize production pipelines supporting analytics, feature engineering, model training, scoring, and embedding generation.
• 10% Engineering Standards & Governance: Establish best practices for testing, CI/CD, code reviews, data quality, observability, and data governance.
• 15% Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, collaborate across data and AI teams, and contribute to the organization's analytics and AI strategy.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Data architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science

Tools

dbt

Dagster

AWS

Trino

Job description

Kelly Services seeks a Senior Analytics Engineer in Boston to own analytics data architecture, semantic models, and scalable pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, Dagster, and AWS. You will shape data strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data, AI, and business teams in a hybrid work setting.

You will drive enterprise metrics, data quality, and governance while enabling AI-enabled analytics and ML workflows for reporting and AI-powered applications.