Senior Analytics Engineer — Build Trusted Data Models

TrulyHired; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ownership program for employees

Flexible work culture (remote, hybrid,

In-office options

Generous time off

Wellness programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Instructure is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to build data models used across the company. You will work daily with dbt and Snowflake, translating business questions into robust data solutions and owning models from source to dashboard.

You will collaborate with Finance, Operations, Product Management, Sales, and other teams, ensuring clean, well-documented data and enforcing modeling standards. Strong SQL, data architecture instincts, and the ability to discuss metrics with executives are

Qualifications

• 5+ years of analytics/engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Information Systems, Finance, or a quantitative field.
• Deep hands-on dbt experience (macros, packages, incremental models, snapshots, testing).
• Strong Snowflake SQL skills with focus on performance and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain dimensional models in dbt and Snowflake for cross-functional reporting.
• Translate business questions into data requirements by collaborating with senior leaders.
• Own the full model lifecycle from source to deployment and documentation.
• Set modeling standards, naming conventions, granularity, and testing practices.
• Tune Snowflake performance and cost via materialization, clustering, and warehouse sizing.
• Collaborate with data engineers and business systems teams to ensure clean upstream data.
• Review PRs, mentor analysts/engineers, and raise data quality across the team.
• Explain data definitions and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Communication skills

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or quantitative field

Tools

dbt

Snowflake

Git

CI/CD

Airflow

Job description

Instructure is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to build data models used across the company. You will work daily with dbt and Snowflake, translating business questions into robust data solutions and owning models from source to dashboard.

You will collaborate with Finance, Operations, Product Management, Sales, and other teams, ensuring clean, well-documented data and enforcing modeling standards. Strong SQL, data architecture instincts, and the ability to discuss metrics with executives are