Senior Analytics Engineer, 12 Month Contract

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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

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$120,000 - CA$160,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Amazon RedshiftPostgresSparkSQLTableau

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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