Newfront

Senior Analytics Engineer

Newfront

Remote job description

From the Lloyd's of London coffee shop to the moon landing, every venture relies on insurance. The $1 trillion insurance industry is fundamental to our economy and society, but remains stuck in the stone age. Incumbents rely on antiquated pen-and-paper process and there's a huge opportunity to transform it through technology. At Newfront, we're building software to supercharge insurance brokers and help them deliver a delightful experience to clients.

While we're a technology-driven company, we believe that people and trusted relationships matter. Newfront believes in empowering people rather than "disrupting" them. Our singular mission is to create the future of work for this massive industry.

We believe breakout growth creates breakout opportunities and diversity drives innovation.

As a senior analytics engineer, your goal is to turn Newfront into a data-first company by building a seamless analytics experience for data consumers. You will have widespread purview, with a responsibility for understanding, aggregating, and exposing data across the entire business to support timely and efficient decision-making and data exploration. You will help implement Newfront's data warehouse, data transformation, and business intelligence reporting environments, and democratize access to data. The role reports to the Head of Data.

This position is open to remote candidates with Pacific Time Zone preferred. #LI-Remote

Job Responsibilities

  • Work with analytics, operations, finance and other business partners to evolve the development of reporting and analytics platforms.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to craft data requirements.
  • Design how we leverage dbt to make a seamless analytics experience.
  • Build data warehouse models that serve as the source-of-truth for Newfront's data.
  • Investigate and propose the use of new technologies to supplement our data stack.
  • Own large parts of our data warehouse and infrastructure.
  • Establish engineering and analytics best practices that ensure data integrity, reliability and discoverability.
  • Work directly with and mentor a growing data team of data engineers, analytics engineers, analysts and data scientists.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of relevant work experience in a role requiring application of data modeling and analytic skills.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
  • Background in successfully designing, building and maintaining a data warehouse and transformation layers.
  • A clear passion for staying up-to-date with and learning new data engineering and analytics skills independently and continuously.
  • Experience with modern ELT and reporting tools.
  • Fundamental understanding of software engineering practices, such as version control, testing, and CI/CD.
  • Advanced data analysis knowledge and experience, with strong SQL and Python skills.
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for digging deep into messy data and extracting the useful parts.

Current Tech Stack

  • BigQuery
  • Dbt
  • Airflow
  • Fivetran
  • Tableau
  • Newfront is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Newfront provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@newfront.com.

NOTE: The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.




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Company name: Newfront
Remote job title: Senior Analytics Engineer

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