Senior Analytics Developer building analytical foundation from scratch for People Analytics at Wealthsimple. Designing data pipelines and ensuring data governance practices are in place.
About the role
- Senior Analytics Engineer building complex data models and insights at Coconut Software. Mentoring team members and supporting data-driven business strategies with advanced analytics.
Responsibilities
- Mentor and support data analysts, data engineers and developers, fostering a collaborative and psychologically safe environment.
- Set high standards for technical excellence in SQL, dbt modeling, and LookML architecture.
- Collaborate with other analytics engineers on the migration of legacy logic from Redshift/Postgres into performant Databricks silver and gold layers.
- Independently implement complex data models in dbt, demonstrating expertise in modularity, testing, and performance optimization on Spark.
- Own the LookML layer, ensuring our explores and dashboards are performant, intuitive, and accurate.
- Act as a "Hybrid Analyst," comfortably balancing long-term engineering projects with ad-hoc requests to support the business.
- Translate stakeholder questions into Looker-based reports and visualizations, ensuring the business has the right insights at the right time.
- Lead technical data planning through discovery, design, and release, ensuring clear documentation for data catalogs and version tracking.
- Identify opportunities for "data debt" reduction and architectural improvements in our Lakehouse and semantic layers.
- Proactively address system characteristics like latency and throughput, ensuring our data pipelines are optimized for cost and speed.
- Act as a subject matter expert in your data domain, contributing to business strategy to ensure we are measuring what matters.
- Provide engineering perspectives on the product roadmap, clearly communicating data feasibility and reporting limitations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of applied experience in an Analytics Engineering or Data role with a solid track record of technical leadership in B2B/SaaS environments.
- Extensive experience architecting dbt projects and managing complex Looker environments.
- Solid experience using Looker (or similar BI tools like Tableau or Power BI) to build dashboards and solve complex data requests.
- Strong architectural understanding of modern data stacks, with proven experience in Databricks.
- Expertise in writing, improving, and troubleshooting complex SQL queries.
- A passion for learning and exploring how AI/LLMs (like Google Gemini) can be integrated into the data lifecycle.
- The ability to successfully collaborate cross-functionally, gathering requirements and delivering results to different teams and departments.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; you can relay complex technical ideas to anyone in the building.
Benefits
- Health & Dental Benefits, Virtual Care, & Disability top up - all starting from day 1!
- Virtual mental health and EAP platform
- WealthSimple GRSP & Matching
- Annual Wellness Benefit ($1000 per year)
- Opportunity to work remote - anywhere in Canada!
- Employee Options - everyone shares in our success!
- Internet Subsidy on each paycheck
- Tiki Bucks Incentive Program - everyone is entitled to earn bonuses!
- A People First Company - 4.2 rating on Glassdoor
- Most Admired Corporate Cultures (2024) and ranked #22 in Best Workplaces in Canada (2025) in company size category
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