Analytics Engineer

Please review the job details below.

The Opportunity

This is a pivotal role for an experienced analytics professional who wants to shape the future of business intelligence at scale. You'll be instrumental in establishing our Power BI practice, creating frameworks that enable self-service analytics, and mentoring business stakeholders to become sophisticated BI practitioners. This isn't just about building dashboards—it's about architecting scalable solutions and driving organizational change.

Why This Role is Different

This isn't a traditional BI developer position focused solely on dashboard creation. You'll be:

• An architect designing scalable frameworks that enable enterprise-wide self-service analytics
• A consultant working across diverse business domains to solve complex analytical challenges
• A teacher mentoring others and elevating the organization's overall BI maturity
• A strategist identifying opportunities and driving continuous improvement initiatives
  
  

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership (25%)

• Define and implement BI best practices, standards, and governance frameworks across the organization
• Identify opportunities to improve our analytics capabilities and maturity
• Contribute to the strategic roadmap for our federated BI transformation
• Collaborate with senior leadership on enterprise-wide analytics initiatives
  
  

Stakeholder Partnership (40%)

• Work directly with early adopters across Finance, Security, Operations, IT, Platform Governance, Customer Service, Product, and other business domains
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, performant BI solutions
• Mentor business users to develop self-service analytics capabilities
• Guide teams through the migration from legacy tools (Superset, Tableau, Business Objects) to Power BI
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and build internal BI expertise across the organization
  
  

Technical Excellence (35%)

• Design and implement sophisticated data models optimized for performance and usability
• Design and architect robust semantic layers that serve as the foundation for enterprise reporting
• Create compelling dashboards and visualizations that drive business decisions
• Write high-performance SQL and optimize data pipelines for BI consumption
• Implement security frameworks including row-level security for sensitive data access
  
  

What You Bring

Required Experience:

• Active Secret (or higher) security clearance
• 5+ years of advanced SQL development and optimization
• 5+ years with modern BI tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.)
• 3+ years of hands-on Power BI development and administration
• 3+ years designing and implementing SQL-based data models
• Proven track record working directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver scalable solutions
• Experience translating business needs into technical specifications and actionable deliverables
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with dbt Cloud for data transformation and modeling
• Background in designing enterprise semantic layers and data marts
• Expertise implementing row-level security and data governance in BI environments
• Experience collaborating with data engineering teams and understanding data pipeline architectures
• Familiarity with data lakehouse architectures and modern data stack components
• Experience with Starburst (Trino) for high-performance analytics
• AWS cloud platform experience
• Apache Superset knowledge (helpful for our migration efforts)
• Airflow experience for understanding upstream data dependencies
  
  

What We Offer

• Impact at Scale: Lead an enterprise-wide BI transformation affecting 2,000+ employees
• Technical Growth: Work with modern data stack technologies and cutting-edge analytics platforms
• Leadership Opportunity: Shape BI strategy and establish best practices for the entire organization
• Diverse Challenges: Support analytics needs across multiple business domains and use cases
• Collaborative Environment: Join a 7-person Data Intelligence team with high autonomy and executive visibility
• Hybrid Flexibility: 3 days in office, 2 days remote for optimal collaboration and work-life balance
  
  

Team Structure

You'll report to the Sr. Manager of Data Intelligence and work as an individual contributor with significant autonomy. While you won't have direct reports, you'll have substantial influence through your mentoring and framework development work across the organization.

Ready to Transform How We Use Data?

If you're passionate about building scalable BI solutions, mentoring others, and driving organizational change, we'd love to hear from you. This role offers the rare opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with strategic thinking and stakeholder engagement in a high-impact environment.

In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate’s starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $98,000.00 - $164,000.00 annually.
  
  

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits

Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

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