Analytics Engineer

Analytics Engineer

Full-time; Exempt; Remote

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

Join our Analytics team as a founding member. Create our Analytics platform to bring standardization and engineering best practices to how we collect, process, and learn from data. Help us be a data driven organization in our day-to-day operations and our forward-looking strategy, as well as democratizing access to data.

What You’ll Do

As our Analytics Engineer you will: 

Big Picture

• Ensure that critical data is available to a range of audiences including senior leaders, internal teams, third party partners and government agencies.
• Build systems to import and manage data from a wide variety of internal and external sources
• Be a founding member of a new organization-wide analytics team.

Day-to-day

• Design and build data transmission lines (we don’t like pipelines here!)
• Integrate data from a variety of sources including, our website, our APIs, our CMS,  and external partners.
• Build dashboards, reports, charts, maps, and other visualizations tailored to each of its audiences’ needs.

Requirements

Who You Are

The incoming Analytics Engineer will be driven by a commitment to Rewiring America’s values, vision, and mission. Through your track record of building analytics products, democratizing data, and bringing clarity to your organization’s work, the successful candidate embraces the idea that we can do big things, and demonstrates humility, curiosity, and a learner’s mindset. They recognize that the stakes of what we are trying to accomplish depend on a passionate, high-functioning, and reliable team. 

The successful candidate demonstrates enthusiasm for making electrification easy, and models excellence and integrity in all they do. The selected candidate will also possess the following Core and Preferred qualifications and characteristics:

Core qualifications: 

• Ability to design and build systems that ingest data from a wide variety of sources and clean, index, and join it and make it available for a variety of analytics tasks from large scale reporting to ad-hoc queries.
• 3-5 years experience writing code to bring together data from a variety of sources using SQL, Python, and possibly additional languages.
• 3-5 years experience with one (or preferably more than one) widely used data system, such as dbt, Databricks, or Snowflake, and a willingness to explore, learn, and recommend others with an open mind.
• Ability to meet users where they are, giving them data access appropriate to their particular needs whether in the form of dashboards, excel files, CSV files, or APIs.
• Bachelor's degree in a data-focused scientific or engineering field or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and listening skills that work for both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Strong commitment to the mission, policies and goals of Rewiring America.
• Collaborative work style.

Preferred qualifications:

• Excellent references demonstrating a strong track record in analytics.
• Content knowledge in climate, renewable energy, and/or building electrification.
• Experience in a non-profit setting.

Benefits

Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.

Hiring Statement

Rewiring America, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Rewiring America is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working. 

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $160,000 USD, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Rewiring America is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). 
• 100% employer-paid short term and long term disability insurance and life insurance policies.
• Employees automatically receive a 6% safe-harbor employer contribution to their 401k retirement plan, regardless of their own contributions. 
• Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. 
• Full Time Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 24 hours of volunteer leave annually. 
• Employees will also receive 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (13 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). 
• We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. 
• Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. 
• We offer access to professional development resources including up to $2000 per calendar year to use towards your growth and development.

Application Procedure 

To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position -- apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.

E-Verify 

Rewiring America, Inc.  participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.