Senior Data Analytics Engineer - Contract at Discovery Education,Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina

Job Description:

Location: Virtual • United States
Req Number: Req# 230
Date Posted: Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2025 | Expires Wednesday, March 26, 2025

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Data Analytics Engineer – Contract to join our Research Analytics Decision Science team, driving business growth through data-driven decision making. As a critical part of our organization, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, finance, product, marketing, and customer support and operations, to deliver actionable insights that inform business strategy.

As a key member of our team, you'll leverage your technical expertise, business acumen, and strategic thinking to develop and maintain data models that extract insights from our data warehouse and cloud storage repositories.

You'll drive business value by transforming raw data into actionable intelligence, using modern data stack tools like Snowflake, dbt, Looker, and Hightouch.

In This Role You Will:

• Lead sales, finance, marketing, and growth attribution modeling efforts, utilizing data from multiple systems to support marketing performance analysis.
• Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to develop business-driven solutions, producing actionable insights for stakeholders.
• Provide clean, transformed data ready for analysis, machine learning, and AI.
• Apply engineering best practices to analytics code, maintaining high-quality standards.
• Maintain data documentation and definitions, ensuring consistency across the organization.
• Train and support business users on using data visualization tools.
• Work with team members to collect business requirements, define successful analytics outcomes, and design data models.
• Craft code that meets internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale database environment.

Core Competencies for Success:

• An innate curiosity for exploring new technologies, combined with the ability to quickly learn new systems and master data integrity across multiple systems.
• Strong track record of delivering data-driven solutions that inform business strategy
• Ability to work with large datasets (millions of daily events)
• Demonstrated capacity to communicate and simplify complex ideas
• Proven ability to evaluate multiple alternatives and devise optimal solutions.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset
• Experience with end-to-end customer data platforms
• Strong interpersonal skills – collaboration across multiple business and technology functions, relationship building, and consensus building are essential.

Credentials and Experience:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, information systems, research, business, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 4-5 years' experience as an analyst, data engineer, data scientist, or equivalent.
• Experience building reports and dashboards in a data visualization tool (2+ years).
• Experience managing data model systems over time (3+ years).
• Experience working with marketing and sales data (3+ years).
• Experience with modern data technologies, including Snowflake, dbt, and Looker
• Experience working with APIs to configure integrations for marketing and sales automations
• Segment experience a plus.
• Experience analyzing data with R, Python, and SQL.
• Experience with Hightouch
• Legal right to work in the United States

This role is designed to be remote. This contract will be for 12 months and 40 hours/week.

Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the communities we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, protected veteran status or disabled status, or genetic information.

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Pay Type Hourly



Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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