Lead Analytics Engineer

Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.

Does this position interest you? You should apply – even if you don’t match every single requirement! We're known as an auto glass company. That's the focus of what we do. But beyond the glass, we're so much more. We'll help you build a fulfilling career and encourage you to have a life. Let us be the best place you'll ever work.

A Brief Overview

The Lead Analytics Engineer at Safelite is instrumental in developing, building, maintaining, and evolving the company's data warehouse infrastructure to enhance data availability for the business. This role is responsible for implementing, managing, and scaling modern data warehouse pipelines using tools like git, dbt, and airflow in a dual-stack data environment actively transitioning to cloud-based infrastructure. Additionally, the Lead Analytics Engineer will guide the team in transforming raw data into clean, usable datasets, ensuring data quality and reliability through strong SQL skills and software engineering practices. The expected outcome is a robust and reliable data infrastructure that supports business decision-making and aligns with Safelite's best practices.

What you will do

• Drive the development and maintenance of our data warehouse to accelerate data availability for data and business analysts embedded throughout the organization

• Own and champion cross-functional, centralized “crown jewel” data assets that answer Safelite's most critical operational questions, reinforcing them as the Source of Truth across the organization

• Apply software engineering best practices to uplift analytics processes and develop scalable data models that enable performant analysis into Safelite's business

• Codify and democratize best practices for SQL query optimization/reusability and reporting, leveraging Safelite's data assets, and analytics development within Snowflake SQL, dbt, and git

• Define teamwide coding standards, documentation requirements, and development processes (code reviews, testing requirements, etc.)

• Collaborate closely with Safelite's BI and Data Engineering teams to improve the usability, quality, and reliability of data for the business

• Work with the data team and embedded analysts and business SMEs to develop and maintain data quality rules, documentation, and definitions

• Scope requirements with internal stakeholders and lead working groups to usher projects through their entire lifecycle while building clear roadmaps for cross-functional team members

• Support the buildout of executive facing collateral showcasing the evolving data strategy and practical business impacts

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, analytics, or related field Required

Experience Qualifications

• 7-9 years hands on experience in a data engineering or analytics related role Required

Skills and Abilities

• Deep knowledge and experience with advanced SQL concepts including window functions, CTEs, nested queries, and other similar techniques (High proficiency)

• 7+ years of hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) and relational databases (High proficiency)

• Deep understanding of multi-step ETL and ELT jobs/data pipelines and experience working with job scheduling systems, with an ability to reverse engineer and refactor existing technical projects (High proficiency)

• Extensive experience independently building and optimizing highly complex data pipelines, architectures, and data sets; experience diagramming architecture and entity relationships (High proficiency)

• Strong understanding of the analyst’s workflow as it relates to both structured and unstructured datasets (High proficiency)

• Exposure to data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster) (Medium proficiency)

• Experience with script-based analytics transformation tools (e.g., dbt, AWS Glue, Talend) (Medium proficiency)

• Experience with Python or similar programming language (Medium proficiency)

• Ability to collaborate through code-management/version control tools like GitHub Enterprise (for peer-reviews, feature branches, resolving conflicts, and commits) (Medium proficiency)

• Prior experience with large enterprise legacy tooling (e.g., mainframe, Informatica, Oracle Business Intelligence, Cognos) (Medium proficiency)

• Conceptual knowledge and expertise with Tableau or equivalent BI visualization tool (e.g., Qlik, Power BI) (Low proficiency)

Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work family that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.

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Diversity: Safelite welcomes everyone. We value our diverse workforce and suppliers, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Learn more at Safelite.com/Careers.

Benefit amounts are estimates only. Actual values will depend on benefit elections during enrollment.

This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodation will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job's essential duties because of an ADA disability. Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws and regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.

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