Forward Financing · 2 hours ago
Senior Analytics Engineer
Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will design, construct, and maintain data models, collaborating with various teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality data products that drive innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.
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Responsibilities
Design, develop, and optimize scalable dimensional data models and marts using dbt, proactively enforcing the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle to minimize redundant logic and maximize efficiency
Act as the primary liaison with the Data Science team to translate features into production-ready data variables required for training and validating predictive models
Collaborate closely with the Data Engineering team to ensure the robust, reliable deployment and orchestration of data variables that feed production machine learning models
Partner with the Core Technology teams on internal application schema changes and data migrations, ensuring rigorous data accuracy validation and maintaining minimal disruption to downstream analytical models
Collaborate with the DevOps team to monitor, maintain, and contribute to our independent, high-performance streaming pipelines tailored for real-time analytics use cases
Elevate team code quality by serving as a technical reviewer for Analytics team pull requests, coaching junior members, and ensuring strict adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, performance, and modern best practices
Evaluate, integrate, and operationalize high-value third-party data sources to strategically enrich and expand the overall data ecosystem
Champion data governance and quality across the data platform, including the implementation of automated data quality checks (using dbt tests), thorough data cataloging, and ensuring compliance with data security and regulatory standards
Qualification
Required
4+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence
2+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining production-level data transformation pipelines using dbt or equivalent scripting experience in Python
2+ years of experience with a cloud-based data warehouse such as Snowflake or Redshift
Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling
Demonstrated strong ability to quickly translate complex business needs and ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable technical data solutions
Experience with business intelligence tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar
Preferred
Hands-on experience with Python for data scripting, automation, or predictive modeling support
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Commuter benefits
Flexible time-off policy
Paid parental leave
401k match for US employees
Wellness reimbursement
Volunteering days
Annual professional development budget
Charitable donation match
Company
Forward Financing
Forward Financing is a fintech company that provides fast, flexible working capital to small businesses nationwide.
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$540M2024-09-19Debt Financing· $200M
2021-06-07Debt Financing· $250M
2019-04-08Debt Financing· $90M
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