Analytics Engineer - Contract

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About the Role:

Reporting to the Senior Manager of Data Platform and Operations, as an Analytics Engineer you will be building tools and infrastructure to support efforts of the analytics and data team as a whole.

We’re looking for a talented, curious self-starter who is driven to solve complex problems and can juggle multiple domains and stakeholders. This highly technical individual will collaborate with all levels of the Data team as well as the various operations teams (e.g. Risk, Finance, Compliance) to provide data solutions, improve our data models as the business scales, and advance Wave to the next stage in our transformation as a data-centric organization.

This role is for someone with proven experience in complicated product environments. Strong communication skills are a must to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical audiences across a spectrum of data maturity.

Here's how you'll make a difference:

• You’ll drive process and tool improvements to enable data-driven decisions across Wave. Your work will mean something and have an impact for the company - our team relies on insights being delivered reliably to make smarter business decisions
• We love our customers at Wave. Your customers are internal, and external too. You can take a look at existing structures and systems and know how to help our internal customers surface the data they need to excel in serving our external customers
• You’re a builder. You’ll be contributing to the design, build and deployment of a modern Data Vault 2.0 data warehouse automated using dbt on Amazon Redshift

These will help you succeed:

• Must be proficient in dbt. dbt is our transformation tool for SQL models
• Comfortable coding in Python. You’re able to read, update, and maintain code that powers our data pipelines
• At least 2 years of experience working with cloud infrastructure, including container development with Kubernetes, GitOps or other infrastructure automation. We work on AWS
• Experience using dbt to implement an automated data transformation layer in a modern data warehouse, (ideally using the Data Vault 2.0 methodology) running on Redshift
• At least 3 years of experience in Analytics Engineering (or Business Intelligence), particularly data modeling, transformation and data engineering. This is important because this is what you’ll be doing most of the time, and we need someone experienced to do it

You'll thrive here if:

• You are a stellar communicator. This means you know how to translate technical terms into non-technical language which your grandma could understand
• You’re self-motivated and have the ability to work autonomously. We count on you to get your work done, in ambiguous conditions, with tight deadlines, while still producing high-quality work. It’s fun, promise!
• You are all about collaboration. You’ll be working with different teams across Wave and prioritizing competing requests with your manager and colleagues using Scrum-based Agile sprints
• You value personal and team development. You enjoy helping your team to identify the most important aspects of engineering and best practices

At Wave, you’re treated like the incredible human being you are.

Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours.

We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more.

We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously.

We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!

We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture creates the best workplace. We embrace our differences, value individuality, and the broad spectrum of every Waver's skills and abilities. We challenge each other from a place of respect and pursuit of continuous growth. We trust each other and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, everyday. As Wavers, our voices matter, our opinions are met with an open mind. The best ideas win, no matter whose they are. Contributing to an inclusive culture is a part of all of our job descriptions.

We’ve been continuously recognized as one of Canada's Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada’s Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion and Women.

Are you ready to be a Waver? Join us!