Senior Staff Analytics Engineer

We engage the most inspired minds to do their best work wherever they work best—powering the freedom to create worldwide.WP Engine is the most trusted WordPress technology company, powering over 1.5M digital experiences in 150+ countries for businesses of all sizes. WP Engine’s all-in-one platform enables customers to design, build, power, and manage extraordinary WordPress, eCommerce, and headless sites—all thanks to a nonstop commitment to innovation, award-winning WordPress expertise, and a set of core values that guides us every day.  Since launching in 2010, WP Engine has become the world’s leading WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), now with over 100,000 customers in 140 countries. We’re proud of the technology and service we offer our customers that move their businesses forward faster. At WP Engine, we strive to do the best work of our careers, and feel empowered to do what is right for our customers. We love investing in employee success and uncovering opportunities for you, the best, to get better. 99 percent of employees believe you’re made to feel welcome at WP Engine. Be you. Be here.What's cool about this job?We are searching for an experienced Senior Staff Analytics Engineer to help construct a contextualized view of our data. These data assets will be used across business & data analytics teams and will become the core repository for their data needs. As a Senior Staff Analytics Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of these groups and will be responsible for delivering trusted, robust and valuable data assets. In addition you will maintain and incorporate changes over time as the business needs change. We are looking for an individual who cares about organizing data into reusable and maintainable components and can bring their energy to helping us grow this function at WP Engine. Our culture is renowned; we believe it is meaningful to hire the best and ensure that we provide an environment where the best get better. If you are great at solving problems, a hard worker with excellent interpersonal skills, and enjoy working across different time zones and cultures, you may be the person that we are looking for!The day to day.Work closely with business stakeholders in Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance & Customer Experience to design valuable data modelsDevelop, deliver and maintain dbt code to advance our Unified Analytics Model as the trusted source for valuable dataCreate and maintain system, data and architectural documentation related to data assets (ERDs) maintained by Analytics EngineeringBe an advocate for maintaining high quality and highly maintainable data assets through best practices and standardsLead and challenge other team members to be better at their craft.Drive improvements in code quality and development across the teamReview code contributions to the Unified Analytics Model, educating on best practices and hygiene that lead to healthy data modelsIdentify & develop process improvements that result in an improved Analytics Engineering practiceWrite test cases that ensure continued high quality data is surfaced and protected from changesManage & improve our CI/CD practice to automate the delivery of high quality codeBe the outward face of the team to drive best practice and collaboration with other data teamsYour skills and expertise.Genuine passion about technology and solving problems with new tools & techniquesCan challenge the status quo and be forward thinking towards building for the future Have an advanced understanding of how to organize & normalize data (data modeling) through data build tool (dbt)Automation mindset through testing & tooling resulting in high confidence delivery Advanced SQL skills - clean, readable, high quality codeAdvanced SQL debugging skills and query performance optimisationAdvanced experience working with gitExperience working with one of the major cloud data warehouses (GCloud, Azure, AWS) vBigQuery preferrableExperience working within an Agile team, delivering iterative value every sprintAbility to work effectively with a remote team across multiple time zonesDriven and self motivated with excellent organizational skillsExcellent communication skills, both written and verbalAbility to understand, document and convert business requirements into data modelsPrevious experience in an engineering focused roleMentorship of junior developers in all areas to develop a stronger team8+ years software engineering experience2+ years working on delivering data assets1+ year working with dbt is beneficial The perks and benefits.Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)Matched pension planVHI Healthcare & DentalThrive Pass - €100 to expense every month on anything that makes you happy!Employee Assistance ProgramGenerous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)One-time €450 Home Office StipendEmployee Resource Groups4 Company Wellness DaysWellness ProgramCalm App SubscriptionAt WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.#LI-DO1#BeYouBeHere