Senior Analytics Engineer

Senior Analytics Engineer

Are you passionate about using data to uncover insights and drive decision-making? Do you enjoy collaborating with others and building scalable data products? If helping to evolve a data analytics organization and implementing impactful data strategies excites you, the Senior Data Analyst role with our team could be what you're looking for! We are seeking a self-motivated and dependable individual who is committed to delivering high-quality insights and understands the critical importance of accuracy, scalability, and maintainability in data systems.

Let us introduce ourselves...

We’re a team of driven, conscientious individuals with a clear mission: to make accounting and payroll fast, simple, and affordable for millions of American businesses and their accountants. 

It’s not enough to have a “good job”. It takes connection, culture, encouragement, growth opportunities, challenges, communication, and so much more to create an environment where people and ideas flourish. 

We are Patriot Software; a fully remote company with 175+ employees across the United States and a co-working space in Canton, Ohio. 

Our search for a new team member always starts by seeking a quality individual who desires to live by our core values:

1. Be Customer Obsessed - In everything we do, we start with the customer and work our way backwards. Our primary focus is how we deliver tremendous value for the American businesses we serve.
2. Lead With Speed - We believe in doing things quickly and not being afraid to take big chances. Moving fast and making bold moves is how we stay ahead.
3. Don’t Cut Corners - We don’t skimp on quality. We make sure to own our technologies, development, and operations so that the entire experience is the best it can be.
4. Create a Better Us - We’re always improving by keeping it simple, saying no to things that don’t help our customers, automating what we can, and spending our money wisely.
5. Follow The Golden Rule - We treat others how we would want to be treated, disagree and commit, and welcome feedback from anyone, anywhere in the company.
6. Grow, Be a Leader - We look for leaders at all levels and always put the customer and team above ourselves. We want to build a pro team of high-caliber players, with high accountability and trust across all individuals.

Interested in learning more? Great! Read on to see if your skills are a match, too.  

What You’ll Be Doing: 

Business Intelligence/Analytics:

• Collaborate and prototype with stakeholders to define business requirements for analysis and reporting.
• Design, develop, and maintain data models, balancing tradeoffs between possible schema design decisions, such as using a star schema, snowflake, or one big table.
• Build reports from data models using business intelligence tools (e.g. OAC/OAS, QuickSight, Power BI, Tableau) to provide meaningful insights.
• Develop and automate data visualizations, dashboards, and reports that effectively communicate complex data in a clear and concise manner.

ETL/ELT:

• Utilize Python to extract data from various sources, such as databases (internal, external, OLTP, OLAP), APIs, and flat files, and load it into appropriate data storage solutions.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows and scripts to transform and clean raw data, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Collaborate with the data engineering team to optimize data pipelines and automate data ingestion processes, apply data manipulation techniques, and perform data wrangling tasks to prepare data for analysis and reporting.

Support:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify data requirements, define metrics, and establish data collection methodologies.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover opportunities and insights that contribute to business growth and optimization.
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and dev teams to provide data-driven recommendations for improving business outcomes.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in web analytics, business intelligence, and data engineering.

Please note this is a sample of what you’ll be doing. This job requires you to be able to adapt to change quickly in order to deliver an exceptional customer experience. Your duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

What You’ll Need: 

• Experience working in Analytics (8+ years)
• Experience working in SaaS at a fintech company (3+ years)
• Experience getting an analytics organization started → running/established → thriving
• Ability to maintain existing solutions while driving toward new, innovative solutions
• Data Modeling for Data Warehouses (8+ years)
• dbt Experience (1+ years)
• Python for Data Engineering (4+ years)
• Common Off the Shelf (COTS) business intelligence tool experience (5+ years)
• Experience with Git
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and derive actionable insights.
• Working knowledge of statistical analysis techniques (including supervised and unsupervised ML/AI algorithms).
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex data findings clearly.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and effectively communicate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Consistent, Reliable High-Speed Internet Access

Nice to Have: 

• OAC/OAS administration
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, or a related discipline. A master's degree is a plus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Location & Commitments:

Full-time, Direct Hire and 100% Remote role

This position is open to all candidates who legally reside and are eligible to work in the United States. This position is currently not open to applicants in the following locations: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Washington D.C.

Working hours are established by each team and department based on business needs.  For this role, core working hours are typically between 9am - 4pm EST, Monday through Friday. Due to the nature of our businesses, we have busy seasons and “right-nows” that occasionally require working outside of core hours.

Patriot is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability or sex.

Benefits

More Reasons to Love Patriot:

We pride ourselves on our company culture and value our employees’ hard work. Aside from the freedom to introduce new ideas or technologies, here are some of the awesome benefits our full-time employees enjoy:

• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance 
• Section 125 HSA and FSA accounts
• Benefits starting 1st of the month after hire
• Company-paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Up-to-date hardware and equipment provided
• Flexible scheduling and opportunities for advancement
• Engaging and collaborative company culture
• Education reimbursement 

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

Note, respecting the privacy of our customers & employees is an essential part of our privacy program. Please do not submit the following Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as Social Security Number, Date of Birth, W-2's, etc. with your application.

Salary: $125K - $145K