Senior Associate - Senior Associate, Analytics Engineer

New York Life; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 177,000; Full time

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Job summary

New York Life is seeking a Senior Associate, Analytics Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable analytics solutions within the Enterprise Intelligence Platform. You will work with data engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers to deliver trusted datasets and pipelines across cloud platforms.

Role combines SQL, Python, dbt, and cloud data expertise with governance and engineering excellence. Expect mentorship, platform standardization, and cross-team collaboration in a hybrid work

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of progressive experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
• Deep SQL expertise with complex joins, windows, CTEs, and large-scale transformations; Python proficiency.
• Hands-on dbt experience including modeling, testing, macros, and multi-environment deployment.
• Experience with cloud data platforms like Databricks and BigQuery; ELT, dimensional modeling, and analytics product design.
• Git-based development workflows, CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable dbt transformation pipelines and analytical data products across cloud data platforms.
• Own data products throughout their lifecycle from source alignment to deployment, monitoring, and governance.
• Implement data quality, observability, and metadata management with automated testing and lineage documentation.
• Develop reusable dbt macros and semantic layer definitions to improve consistency and delivery efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, data stewards, engineers, and data scientists to translate requirements and mentor peers.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Cloud platforms

Git/CI-CD

Agile

Data modeling

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Looker LookML

DataHub

Job description

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week

Role Overview

The Senior Associate, Analytics Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable analytics engineering solutions that transform enterprise data into trusted, consumable data products that support business intelligence, advanced analytics, and AI-driven decision making. Embedded within the Enterprise Intelligence Platform team, this role partners with business stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers to deliver high‑quality analytical datasets and transformation pipelines across modern cloud platforms.

Working with a high degree of independence, this individual leads the delivery of analytics engineering workstreams from source alignment and data modeling through deployment, testing, and operational monitoring. The role combines strong technical expertise in dbt, SQL, Python, and cloud data platforms with a commitment to data quality, governance, and engineering excellence. The successful candidate will contribute to platform standards, mentor peers, and help advance modern analytics engineering practices that enable enterprise‑scale AI and intelligence products.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimize scalable dbt transformation pipelines and analytical data products across cloud data platforms, delivering trusted datasets, dimensional models, feature tables, and business‑ready data assets that support reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Own data products throughout their lifecycle, including source alignment, modeling, testing, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement, ensuring performance, reliability, governance, and downstream usability.
• Implement and enhance data quality, observability, and governance practices through automated testing, source freshness validation, lineage documentation, metadata management, and compliance with enterprise data standards.
• Contribute to analytics engineering platform capabilities by developing reusable dbt macros, modeling patterns, semantic layer definitions, and automation accelerators that improve consistency, scalability, and delivery efficiency across teams.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data stewards, engineers, and data scientists to translate requirements into well‑defined solutions, resolve data challenges, support Agile delivery processes, and promote analytics engineering best practices through mentorship and code reviews.

What You’ll Bring

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related discipline, with a strong focus on production‑scale data transformation and analytics platforms.
• Deep expertise in SQL, including complex joins, window functions, common table expressions, query optimization, and large‑scale data transformation patterns, along with proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks.
• Hands‑on experience with dbt, including layered modeling, incremental processing, source definitions, testing frameworks, reusable macros, documentation, and multi‑environment deployment strategies.
• Experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks and/or BigQuery, with a strong understanding of ELT architectures, dimensional modeling, and analytical data product design.
• Knowledge of software engineering best practices, including Git‑based development workflows, code reviews, CI/CD integration, automated testing, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Strong communication, problem‑solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions and effectively collaborate across technical and non‑technical teams.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with semantic layer technologies such as dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, Looker LookML, or comparable platforms used to standardize and govern business metrics.
• Familiarity with AI‑enabled analytics engineering practices, including LLM‑assisted development, agentic workflows, automated anomaly detection, and intelligent data quality remediation.
• Experience with data observability, lineage, and governance platforms such as Monte Carlo, Dataplex, DataHub, Alation, or similar technologies.
• Exposure to graph‑based data models, knowledge graphs, context graph architectures, or AI‑enabled data platforms supporting advanced analytics and machine learning use cases.
• Insurance, financial services, or highly regulated industry experience with knowledge of data privacy, governance, and enterprise compliance requirements.

Pay Transparency

Salary Range: $124,000-$177,000

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Company Overview

At New York Life, our 180‑year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology‑, data‑, and AI‑enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.

Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem‑solving, and purpose‑driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long‑standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.

As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners.

Job Requisition ID: 94236