Senior Analytics Engineer: dbt & Data Modeling Expert

NextPath Workforce Solutions; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NextPath Workforce Solutions is seeking an Analytics Engineer to join our client's team in Raleigh, NC. This onsite, direct hire role offers a salary of $90,000–$130,000 depending on experience and a chance to work with a modern analytics stack including dbt and cloud data warehouses.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of analytics engineering or data engineering experience, deep SQL skills, and strong ability to translate business concepts into analytics-ready data models.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI, or data engineering.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL with complex transformations.
• Hands-on dbt experience including models, tests, and docs.
• Strong data modeling skills and analytics-ready data design.
• Ability to translate business concepts into data models.
• Excellent communication to explain data logic to business stakeholders.
• Experience with modern analytics stacks (cloud data warehouse, dbt, BI tools).
• Familiarity with data governance concepts like definitions and lineage.

Responsibilities

• Own and steward the dbt analytics project, including organization, naming, testing, and documentation
• Manage the analytics transformation layer to ensure reliable, scalable data models
• Collaborate with Data Engineering on upstream pipelines and data shaping to support analytics needs
• Define and implement trusted business logic, including dimensions, facts, and shared metrics
• Build and maintain performance-driven analytics models in dbt based on business requirements
• Embed data quality rules and validation logic into dbt models
• Apply dimensional modeling best practices to support reporting consistency
• Document models thoroughly, including descriptions, lineage, and assumptions
• Support the development of shared metrics and ensure consistency across analytics
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and deployment workflows to ensure quality

Skills

SQL proficiency

dbt experience

Data modeling

Analytics stack knowledge

Data governance

Communication skills

Cloud data warehouse

BI tools

Tools

dbt

Cloud data warehouse

BI tools

Job description

NextPath Workforce Solutions is seeking an Analytics Engineer to join our client's team in Raleigh, NC. This onsite, direct hire role offers a salary of $90,000–$130,000 depending on experience and a chance to work with a modern analytics stack including dbt and cloud data warehouses.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of analytics engineering or data engineering experience, deep SQL skills, and strong ability to translate business concepts into analytics-ready data models.