Analytics Engineer

ABOUT THE JOB

The ACLU is hiring a full-time Analytics Engineer in the Analytics division of the Technology Department of the ACLU’s National office in New York or Washington, DC. This is a hybrid role that has in-office requirements of two (2) days per week or eight (8) days per month.  

The ACLU Technology Department is a broad umbrella covering both the ACLU’s Analytics and its Product & Engineering teams, two robust and innovative divisions that power the work of the ACLU. The department provides trusted, dependable, and impactful analytics, engineering, as well as product design and management expertise for the ACLU. In partnership with experts across the ACLU, the technology team delivers best-in-class solutions, services, and innovation that advance the ACLU mission and organizational priorities. The tech team strives to ensure the ACLU leads by example in the ethical use of technology by ensuring privacy and security standards are maintained, directional insights are used to inform programming and business strategy, best-in-class products are designed to get the ACLU message out into the world and grow the ACLU supporter base, as well as to help steward high standards for algorithmic fairness, accountability, and transparency. 

The Analytics division includes analysts, data scientists, survey experts, social scientists, and analytics engineers that support evidence-based decision making and bring quantitative insights on our issues to the courtroom and the public.

This position is part of a collective bargaining unit. It is represented by ACLU Staff United (ASU). 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Reporting to the Director of Analytics Engineering, the Analytics Engineer will be part of a team focused on reliably transforming data in the ACLU’s internal systems into analysis-ready forms, scraping data from public sources, and working to improve our overall data and analysis pipeline. In partnership with other analytics engineers and analysts, you will use your strong technical, modeling, and analytical knowledge to assists with the data model rebuild as the ACLU migrates to a new CRM.

The analytics engineer will work alongside data scientists, data engineers, data analysts, and business users, to enable the use of innovative data-driven methods and advanced analytics to transform the way the ACLU approaches fundraising, digital communications, and supporter engagement, as well as program work in litigation and advocacy.  

YOUR DAY TO DAY

You will be part of the Analytics Engineering team and work with team members across Analytics as well as stakeholders across the ACLU. You will work primarily with membership/donation data, voter files, web, and other data. Below is a sampling of projects you can expect to dive into: 

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data models to support reporting, business intelligence, and analytics needs using dbt. 
• Collaborate with third-party vendors and our Analytics Engagement team as we prepare to migrate CRMs and re-build dbt models used for business essential reporting   
• Build and orchestrate Python ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines in Dagster, to ensure the efficient flow of data from various sources into data warehouses or data lakes. 
• Scrape data from public websites to support legal, organizing, and advocacy projects. 
• Ensure high-quality, accurate, and timely data is available for stakeholders across departments.  
• Use and help others use data warehousing and SQL best practices to keep our analytics swift and reliable 
• Work with parts of the organization to define and document consistent business data practices 
• Collaborate with our Legal and Advocacy Analytics teams to provide data support for fast developing legal crises & issue-based campaigns 

 

FUTURE ACLU'ERS WILL

• Be committed to advancing the mission of the ACLU
• Center and embed the principles of equity, inclusion and belonging in their work by demonstrating commitment to diversity with an approach that respects and values multiple perspectives
• Be committed to work collaboratively and respectfully toward resolving obstacles and conflicts

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Extensive experience with data warehouses and database query languages (e.g., Redshift, SQL) 
• Experience building data models and writing ETL in a business setting 
• Undergraduate degree in an analytical field (e.g., Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Business) or equivalent experience 
• Experience with using a modern scripting language (e.g. Python) 
• Experience translating business metrics into well-scoped tasks and requirements 
• Familiarity with BI tools such as Hex, Tableau, or Looker 
• Familiarity with customer relationship management and/or volunteer management data such as data from Salesforce, Blackbaud, or VAN 

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with a modern data stack, especially dbt for SQL data modeling 
• Experience with an orchestration tool (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect) 
• Knowledge of latest trends and technologies in data warehousing/data engineering 
• Familiarity with common Unix command line operations (e.g. file system operations, Docker, Git) 
• Familiarity with AWS services such as S3 and Redshift 
• Familiarity with voter file data 

COMPENSATION

The ACLU is committed to equity, transparency, and clarity in pay. Consistent with our compensation philosophy, there is a set salary for each role based on geographic work location. The annual salary for this position is $123,360 (Level G), reflecting the salary of a position based in New York, NY or or Washington, D.C..  Salaries are subject to a regional pay adjustment if authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.     For details on our pay structure, please visit: https://www.aclu.org/careers/ACLU_Geographic_Pay_Structure-July_2024.pdf

WHY THE ACLU

For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it’s ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.

We know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and know that what we offer is essential not just their work, but to their overall well-being. 

At the ACLU, we offer a broad range of benefits, which include:

• Time away to focus on the things that matter with a generous paid time-off policy
• Focus on your well-being with comprehensive healthcare benefits (including medical, dental and vision coverage, parental leave, gender affirming care & fertility treatment)
• Plan for your retirement with 401k plan and employer match
• We support employee growth and development through annual professional development funds, internal professional development programs and workshops

OUR COMMITMENT TO ACCESSIBILITY, EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion are core values of the ACLU and central to our work to advance liberty, equality, and justice for all. For us diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion are not just check-the-box activities, but a chance for us to make long-term meaningful change.  We are a community committed to learning and growth, humility and grace, transparency and accountability. We believe in a collective responsibility to create a culture of belonging for all people within our organization – one that respects and embraces difference; treats everyone equitably; and empowers our colleagues to do the best work possible. We are as committed to anti-oppression, anti-ableism, and anti-racism internally as we are externally. Because whether we’re in the courts or in the office, we believe ‘We the People’ means all of us.

With this commitment in mind, we strongly encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, veteran status and record of arrest or conviction, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.    

The ACLU is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability and need assistance applying online, please email benefits.hrdept@aclu.org. If you are selected for an interview, you will receive additional information regarding how to request an accommodation for the interview process.

The Department of Education has determined that employment in this position at the ACLU does not qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.