Senior Analytics Engineer: Data Foundations & Subscriptions

The Wirecutter; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The New York Times is seeking an experienced analytics engineer to join the Data and Insights Group and Data Platforms, supporting enterprise partners project-wide. You will report to the Executive Director of Analytics Engineering and help shape data foundations used by executives daily.

You will own subscription data analytics, design reusable data pipelines, and mentor teammates, while delivering semantic layers and data contracts for AI-enabled insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, product analytics or similar data-intensive roles.
• Proficiency in SQL, DBT, and data transformation workflows
• Proficiency in Python for ETL and analytics use cases
• Experience communicating updates and resolutions to customers and other partners; you will work with both business-focused partners and platform-focused engineers
• Hands-on familiarity with GCP/BigQuery, Databricks/Spark, AWS, Snowflake, or other cloud data environments

Responsibilities

• You will independently lead work streams in a high leverage, high visibility role building the next generation of data foundations for our core enterprise reporting datasets that executives depend on daily
• You will be our subject matter expert on our subscription data, translating our needs into technical implementations and mentoring teammates on the domain
• You will design reusable business logic and data pipelines allowing other analysts and partners to answer questions quickly.
• You will develop data models, data contracts, alerting, context, and metrics/semantic layers supporting both traditional and AI-assisted analytical use cases.
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Skills

SQL

DBT

Python

GCP/BigQuery

Databricks/Spark

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

The New York Times is seeking an experienced analytics engineer to join the Data and Insights Group and Data Platforms, supporting enterprise partners project-wide. You will report to the Executive Director of Analytics Engineering and help shape data foundations used by executives daily.

You will own subscription data analytics, design reusable data pipelines, and mentor teammates, while delivering semantic layers and data contracts for AI-enabled insights.