Senior Analytics Engineer - Data & AI Analytics Platform

Education First; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Medical/dental/vision

Paid time off

Job summary

Education First is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to define and deliver trusted data products that power decisions across products and marketing. You will build semantic layers, model GA4 data, and lead dbt development for scalable analytics across brands.

You will collaborate with analysts and stakeholders, mentor engineers, and drive data quality with automated tests and monitoring. The role emphasizes self-serve analytics, AI-enabled workflows, and data activation across tools.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience building analytical data products used for decision making.
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling in a cloud warehouse.
• Hands-on dbt experience with models, tests, and documentation.
• Ability to define shared metrics and a semantic layer for reporting, self-serve, or AI tools.
• Track record partnering with analysts and business stakeholders to frame requests around decisions.
• Experience mentoring other engineers or analysts.
• Proficiency in Python for data tooling and automation.
• Bonus: experience with reverse ETL (Hightouch) or product data powering marketing/ads.
• Bonus: semantic/metric layers for LLM-driven analytics or self-serve tools.
• Bonus: GA4 events and models connecting web behavior to outcomes.
• Bonus: measurement for experimentation and attribution.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business questions into trusted data products and datasets.
• Design and evolve the semantic layer powering dashboards and AI analytics.
• Build and maintain dbt models turning raw data into analytical datasets.
• Model GA4 and other analytics into trusted datasets linked to discovery and bookings.
• Collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to shape questions and scope.
• Enable data activation via reverse ETL and product catalogs for marketing and ads.
• Create reusable datasets and define clear metrics and ownership.
• Embed data quality with automated tests and monitoring.
• Set the modeling bar for the domain and mentor others.
• Influence the direction of the analytical layer for self-serve and shared models.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Snowflake

dbt Core/Cloud

semantic layer

analyst collaboration

mentoring

Python for data tooling

Hightouch / reverse ETL

LLM analytics readiness

GA4 data modeling

measurement & attribution

Tools

Snowflake

dbt Core/Cloud

Hightouch

GA4

Job description

Education First is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to define and deliver trusted data products that power decisions across products and marketing. You will build semantic layers, model GA4 data, and lead dbt development for scalable analytics across brands.

You will collaborate with analysts and stakeholders, mentor engineers, and drive data quality with automated tests and monitoring. The role emphasizes self-serve analytics, AI-enabled workflows, and data activation across tools.