Data Analytics Engineer

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About the role

  • Data Analytics Engineer building trusted SQL data systems for Toptal, a global talent network. Owning transformation, governance, warehousing, and AI-enabled analytics foundations.

Responsibilities

  • Drive business impact and better decision making by laying the data foundation for a world-class analytics function
  • Own and maintain the data transformation layer
  • Design, write, review, and ship SQL models that transform raw data into usable data products
  • Work with Data Engineers to add, model, and publish new data sources in the data warehouse
  • Monitor the data warehouse and identify opportunities to improve operations, accuracy, quality, coverage, integrity, structure, and usability
  • Translate ambiguous business requests into modeled data and establish business rules and edge cases
  • Implement measures to improve data quality, lineage, access, and retention across source production databases
  • Own the data dictionary and document tables, columns, data flows, definitions, and calculation methodologies
  • Diagnose and resolve data incidents
  • Review teammates’ code and provide feedback
  • Collaborate with Business Analysts, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and business process owners
  • Enable end users to understand and use data effectively
  • Improve agent playbooks, documentation, and data warehouse tooling
  • Contribute architectural ideas for the data environment and pipelines
  • Help establish the Business Analytics Center of Excellence and improve warehouse usability for analysts and AI agents

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Engineering or a related technical field
  • 4+ years of experience in an Analytics Engineer, Data Engineer, or Data Analyst role where you personally shipped production data models
  • Expert-level SQL skills and working knowledge of Python
  • Fluency with LLMs and agentic coding tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent
  • Experience with cloud data warehousing, such as BigQuery or Snowflake
  • Good understanding of a modern transformation framework, such as dbt, Dataform, SQLMesh, or similar
  • Git fluency, including branching, pull requests, code review, and conflict resolution
  • Strong familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow, Cloud Composer, Dagster, or Prefect
  • Understanding of Jira, ticket hygiene, code review etiquette, and avoiding unverified LLM-generated code
  • Experience with exploratory/raw data analysis, data modeling, and data governance
  • Experience translating business logic and objectives into SQL code and linking data and analytics to business strategy and operations
  • Familiarity with BI tools such as Tableau or Power BI
  • Detail oriented, methodical, and thorough
  • Strong relationship-building and collaboration abilities
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex issues simply
  • Ability to work collaboratively and independently and take ownership of quality, accuracy, and timeliness
  • World-class individual contributor mindset

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment
  • Support structure encouraging innovation, social interaction, and fun

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AirflowBigQueryCloudPythonSQLTableau

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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