Analytics Engineer

2 weeks ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Simple Machines Full time
Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented SQL Data Engineer to join our amazing team.

This is a full-time role to be based in the Christchurch office with a hybrid model: 2 days in the office and 3 days at home.


About the role


You'll work closely with our engineering and analytics teams to understand client needs and design and successfully deliver compelling market leading solutions.

Sound good so far?

Here's a brief overview of the role's responsibilities:

  • Write maintainable and performant transformations in analytical warehouses.
  • Work with data modellers to understand transformation requirements.
  • Work with business users to produce reports or optimise reporting layers.
  • Orchestration of production transformations.

What we need from you as an individual.

  • Above all, be a great internal and external communicator. You'll possess a hospitality mindset in managing and engaging collaboratively with all stakeholders, inside and outside the business
  • Lead from the front and by example. You'll take true ownership of tasks, taking responsibility for goals and outcomes
  • Act as an excellent role model for your peers and the entire Simple Machines team
  • Bring a genuine fitforpurpose mindset to everything that you do
  • Strong architecture, engineering, client engagement and communication skills are an absolute must
  • Demonstrate a genuine passion for technology and continually learning a growth mindset that believes there is always, always more to know
  • Exhibit a humble, lowego attitude.

Requirements:

The technology experience we're looking for.

The required skills that we're after:

  • Deep experience with SQL
  • Effective communication skills with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
  • Understanding of benefits and tradeoffs between analytical and transactional databases
  • Experience with one or more data warehouses, e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Greenplum, Teradata
  • Experience with query performance optimisation
  • Understanding of benefits between modelling techniques, e.g. star schema, dimensional, denormalised

The skills that we would love for you to have but that aren't essential:

  • Experience with orchestration of production data transformations, e.g. with tooling like Airflow
  • Understanding of modern data formats, e.g. Parquet, Avro
  • Experience with data validation and data quality techniques
  • Experience with software development lifecycle tooling, e.g. git

Benefits

Working at Simple Machines


We're looking for someone who's as passionate as we are about building a world-class technology company specialising in engineering for data.


Just some of the benefits of working with Simple Machines include:

  • Learning and development: We all love continually learning and have a generous budget for you to upskill, join conferences, get certified and qualified.
  • Lunch is on us. Always We happily supply lunch at each of our office locations every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.


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