Analytics Engineer - Christchurch
Simple Machines, New Zealand

Simple Machines’ mission is to ensure our clients get the most out of their data by designing and building modern data platforms, engineering data powered software applications and products, and enabling engineering and data driven business focussed use-cases.

We need you to help us design and deliver a fantastic program of data focussed engineering projects for our globally distributed client base.

Simple Machines is looking to hire a talented Analytics Engineers to join our amazing team.

This is a full-time hybrid role to be based in our incredible Christchurch offices.

You’ll work closely with our engineering and analytics teams to understand client needs and design and successfully deliver business critical solutions.

Sound good so far?

Requirements

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
• Bring a genuine fit-for-purpose mindset to everything that you do
• Strong SQL 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, low-ego attitude

The required skills that we’re after:

• Deep experience with SQL
• Effective communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understanding of benefits and trade-offs 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.
• Programming experience.

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
• Experience with building data projects in DBT
• Development experience with languages such as python, spark

Benefits

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.
• NQA Day - No questions asked day off.

Simple Machines isn’t your typical consultancy. Rather, we’re a firm of passionate and talented expert consultants that are as much a community as a company.

When we set out to make a difference nearly 10 years ago, we did so because we weren’t happy with the status quo of technology consultancies. We wanted to build a company we would want to hire ourselves. And we’ve done just that.

At the core of our company is a team of talented individuals, many of whom are at the top of their field. We regularly present atlocal andinternational conferences, committing to many of the open-source projects we utilise in our day-to-day engagements andrelease many other projects back to the broader technology community.

It would be great if you could join us.

Apply now and let’s see where the connection takes us.

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