Analytics Engineer
New York, NY
Type: Contract
Category: Data
Industry: Communications
Reference ID: JN -052026-106918
Date Posted: 05/11/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/zLBn2N
Description
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Description:
Hybrid 4 days on site in New York, NY
The mission of the Analytics Engineering team at our client is to enable, facilitate, and develop their ability to make data-driven strategic decisions. We are looking for Analytics Engineers to build and own domain datasets that will power insights, executive reporting, and strategic initiatives. This individual contributor role will focus on developing AE's nascent partnerships with stakeholders across the org, aligning and collaborating closely with the Strategy and Business Intelligence team to ensure business objectives are measured and insights developed. You will spend most of your time collaborating with stakeholders to translate business needs into analytical datasets, owning the end-to-end data lifecycle and enabling self-serve analytics across the organisation. If you enjoy going deep into data, getting creative to uncover insights and solve problems, and seeing the real-world downstream impact of your data in strategic decisions, this role is a great opportunity to dive in and shape the future of data here.
Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $55.00 to $65.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Liaise and partner with Data/Business Analysts, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable analytics datasets.
Design and implement scaled data architecture that enables analysis and data-driven decision making across one or more data domains.
Design, implement, and maintain scaled data pipelines to ensure high-quality, reliable, and sustainable data delivery processes.
Design and implement data quality checks and anomaly detection for dataset certification and KPI computation accuracy.
Establish and refine the data catalogue and semantic layer to ensure proper usage by non-technical stakeholders and AI systems.
Collaborate with Strategy and Business Intelligence partners on dashboard and reporting designs and implementations that support key strategic decisions.
Monitor and optimize workflows for performance and cost efficiency.
Apply data governance, security, privacy, and hygiene best practices across the data lake to ensure purpose-appropriate usage and PII compliance.
[Senior] Drive alignment and make key technical decisions around data architecture and presentation layers for cross-functional use.
[Senior] Provide feedback and technical coaching, and run design and code reviews.
[Senior] Mentor and support junior and contingent talent.
Experience Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information/Data Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
[Junior] 2+ or [Mid-level] 5+ or [Senior] 8+ years in roles focused on data modeling, building data artifacts and pipelines, and scaling self-serve analytical capabilities.
[Junior] 2+ or [Mid-level] 5+ or [Senior] 8+ years with SQL, ETL/ELT, data modeling, and at least one programming language, with Python preferred.
Strong understanding of data lakehouse principles and modern data architecture.
Strong communication skills to build stakeholder relationships and drive alignment.
Preferred: Advanced degree in a STEM field.
Preferred: Experience designing and implementing reports and dashboards using technologies such as Microsoft Power BI, Looker, or Tableau.
Preferred: Strong experience in AWS services such as Athena, S3, Glue, Lake Formation, and Lambda.
Preferred: Experience with or contributions to Apache projects including Airflow, Arrow, Hudi, Iceberg, Parquet, and Spark.
Preferred: Expertise in performance tuning and capacity management for big data systems.
Preferred: Experience in Marketing or Sports data domains.
Preferred [Senior]: Experience evaluating big data technologies and systems to define strategic technical and architectural direction.
Education Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information/Data Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.
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