Analytics Engineer in Edinburgh

Analytics EngineerDepartment: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Edinburgh

Reporting To: Dave Evans

Compensation: £37,000 – £65,000 / year

DescriptionOur Analytics Team The analytics engineering team\’s mission is to empower and enable the business to make rigorous and impactful use of data.

The role Analytics engineers develop and build on our data platform to ensure we collect and make available the data the business needs, while maintaining accuracy and security. They engage with our colleagues to ensure they have the knowledge and skills to work with data effectively, provide support with questions, and carry out detailed analysis applying specialist knowledge when required.

We believe in a learning culture and encourage self-development. Our regular company hack days and wiggle weeks provide a great opportunity for analysts to pursue their own ideas and learn new technologies.

Day to day your role will involve

Ownership of data pipelines, data warehouse and BI tooling

Sourcing, modelling and making available data required to underpin the company strategy and day to day activities

Maintaining the accuracy and security of our data sources

Managing stakeholder relationships and priorities in your area of focus

Promoting pragmatic and effective use of data to drive decision-making

Training stakeholders across the organisation to improve their use of data

Supporting stakeholders by carrying out analysis requiring specialist knowledge

Reducing ambiguity or reconciling disagreement between teams

Encouraging a culture of experimentation and scientific rigour in the organisation

Developing and mentoring other members of the team

YouOur data platform is AWS based and we use modern tooling based around Dagster, dbt, dlt, Redshift and Looker. Prior experience with these tools is beneficial. However if you have experience with equivalent tools we\’d still love to hear from you. Recruitment is a great chance for us to bring alternate perspectives into the team!

Ideally you\’ll have the following skills and experience:

Proficiency with a modern data platform stack

You have designed and implemented pipelines to process structured and unstructured data to enable stakeholders to solve business problems

You can demonstrate proficiency with modern data platform languages and tools such as Python, S3, Redshift, Lambda, Dagster, dbt and dlt

Business intelligence

You are proficient in SQL for data modelling and transformation

You have developed data models to enable stakeholders to self-serve business questions by using BI software such as Looker

Supporting Decision making

You have created appropriately designed reports and visualisations to support non-technical audiences

You have experience designing, running and analysing the results of A/B tests together with business stakeholders

Stakeholder management

You have a demonstrable ability to manage your own work backlog in collaboration with leadership and business stakeholders

You are comfortable working with the team to answer questions from stakeholders

Please also make sure you\’re familiar with the hiring process for this role so you can ensure your application contains all the information we need.

Our work lifeWe believe in a strong work-life balance, we don\’t work long hours (35 hour working week), and we have a fabulous Edinburgh HQ expertly designed for collaboration including high-quality A/V equipment to provide a great experience for distributed teams.

At FreeAgent, we support each other and operate a no-blame culture. Our mindset is: work hard, be nice to people, and the rest will sort itself out!

Work pattern for this role

This is a permanent, full time role (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)

This role will be based in our Edinburgh office, however there will be an opportunity to adopt hybrid working, under an agreed pattern of 2 days from the office and 3 days at home each week.

PerksMid level: Annual starting salary of £37000 – £45000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress to £53000 within the band.

Senior level: Annual starting salary of £53000 – £65000 per annum depending on experience, with room to progress to £72000 within the band.

Our starting salaries typically leave some opportunity for growth within the band as salaries are linked to performance expectations to nurture our culture of fairness, learning and development.

We pride ourselves on creating a fantastic place to work, with benefits and perks including (but not limited to!) the following:

33 days holiday (and an extra day for each year you\’re with us)

Flexible/hybrid working

Private health care

Life assurance

5% matched pension contributions

Summer 4 day weeks (giving you 8 additional days off!)

Buy-as-you-earn share schemes

Sabbatical leave (unpaid)

Cycle to work scheme

Wellness webinars

Focused learning time and learning budgets

Volunteering day

Find out more about our benefits package here! Tempted to apply? Read about the hiring process for this role so you know what to expect.

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