Senior Finance Analytics Engineer: AI-Driven Insights

Speedrun Talent Network; San Diego, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead trusted data products for Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Strategic Finance on our Databricks platform. This role blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional influence to expand Finance's impact.

You will shape analytical solutions, set standards, and mentor engineers and partners, delivering AI-enabled decision support with rigor and practicality.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or financial data modeling, with advanced SQL and a record of delivering production data products.
• Demonstrated ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional work from problem definition through adoption.
• Proficiency with AI coding assistants and sound judgment when reviewing generated work.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted analytics, ideally Databricks Genie; adjacent Snowflake Cortex or comparable experience is welcome.
• Sound architectural judgment, disciplined development practices, and experience mentoring others and influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Shape the analytics roadmap with Finance and GTM leaders, prioritizing high-impact products and resolving competing requirements.
• Build governed datasets and semantic models that support reporting, planning, scenario analysis, and strategic decisions.
• Set modeling and metric standards across domains, exercising judgment on architecture, quality, and maintainability.
• Develop conversational analytics and AI-enabled workflows, including Databricks Genie, grounded in trusted business context.
• Use AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery and explore new capabilities while maintaining rigorous validation and quality.
• Own business-facing reconciliation and acceptance, partnering with data engineering on reliable delivery.
• Mentor engineers and Finance partners, strengthening technical practices and self-service capabilities.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Data modeling

BI engineering

AI coding assistants

Databricks Genie

Python

Mentoring

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Python

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead trusted data products for Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Strategic Finance on our Databricks platform. This role blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional influence to expand Finance's impact.

You will shape analytical solutions, set standards, and mentor engineers and partners, delivering AI-enabled decision support with rigor and practicality.