Analytics Engineer (gn)

About LichtBlick:

Grade: 16,17
Working model: Remote within Germany, with planned presence at our Hamburg office, particularly for team events and key alignment meetings
Part-time or full-timeContract type: Permanent

For more than 25 years, LichtBlick has been driving the energy transition. What started as a pioneer in green electricity has grown into an integrated energy provider with its own generation assets as well as solar, mobility, and heating solutions. Every day, we continue to develop future-oriented energy solutions that combine economic success with social responsibility.

For good energy in Technology.

About the Team

In a decentralized setup, who provides technical support, tools, and training to the domains? Who makes sure transactions are compliant and efficient? Who monitors and reports on the overall health of data operations?

Central Data does. Our work focuses on 4 areas:

Data Platform - enable data nerds by providing a modern, easy to use and robust data stack
Data Governance - ensure secure and efficient data operations
Data Literacy - improve intelligent decision-making
Machine Learning & AI Program - promote AI usage and contribute to LichtBlick’s Strategic AI Program as one of its workstreams

Your Roll:

In our decentralized data setup, a Central Data team enables business-aligned data experts through our self-serve platform, governance, and literacy. Simply put, Central Data builds and owns the data flywheel and the data owning domains make it turn.As an Analytics specialist in our team, you make that flywheel spin faster on the analytics side. You own how analytics works at LichtBlick, you connect the central team with the domains, and you keep our whole data ecosystem moving forward.

Own and evolve our analytics platform

• Take ownership of our mature analytics setup: architecture, tools, standards, and governance, from workspace concepts to transformation logic to semantic models. You keep it reliable and make it better
• Own the analytics tools and infrastructure of our self-serve platform, and embed our governance principles together with your Central Data teammates (we strive for automated governance)
• Keep our analytics engineering DNA strong: build end-to-end analytics pipelines for datasets owned by Central Data, with modern, version-controlled transformation practices.
  Take ownership of our data marketplace tool, the management cockpit for our data, metadata, and data contracts
• Co-develop, measure, and publish governance KPIs as part of our monitoring and reporting

Push automation and AI-driven analytics

• Bring automation to another level, for instance by fully utilizing machine-readable data products and contracts
• Explore, prototype, and ship agentic analytics use cases, for example natural-language access to data or agentified CI pipelines
• Test new tools and trends early, decide what is worth scaling, and bring the domains along

Be the glue of our data community

• Stay in close contact with analysts and engineers in the data-owning domains. Understand their needs and blockers, and translate them into what Central Data needs to deliver
• Drive our Data Literacy program and upskill colleagues across the company
• Be the voice of our analytics story: present new trends and our learnings at internal and external events, and make people excited about data

Your Skills:

What’s essential for this role:

• You have a degree or equivalent practical experience in Analytics Engineering or other Analytics-centric fields
• You have 5+ years of experience in the Analytics field and high professional maturity
• You feel equally comfortable with and have hands-on expert knowledge of modern BI and data transformation tools
• You use AI tools in your daily work and have ideas or first experience with agentic analytics
• You have practical experience with, and a genuine interest in, data governance, ideally in a decentralized or data mesh-like environment
• You enjoy working and communicating with teammates, colleagues, and stakeholders alike
• You speak up for your beliefs in professional discussions, stay open to better arguments, and keep the bigger picture in mind
• You follow new trends because you can't help it, and you're always up for learning something new
• You communicate clearly and confidently in English, and you can explain complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences alike

We’d be even more energized if you also bring:

• German is a plus

Our Benefits:

• A modern loft office right next to Hamburg Central Station
• Mobility allowance, choose between bike leasing or the Germany Ticket
• Childcare subsidy
• Discounted employee electricity tariff for your home
• Recurring sabbatical opportunities and the option to work remotely from another location through our Workation program
• Free access to our in-house gym
• Pluxee Benefits Pass and Corporate Benefits program
• And much more to discover

Our Recruiting Process:

Our recruiting process is transparent, respectful and designed to keep you informed every step of the way. Once we receive your application, we'll get back to you promptly and keep you updated on the next steps throughout the process. Recruiter*in - [Nora Böckermann] *Diversity & Accessibility:We welcome applications from people of all genders, ages, identities, backgrounds and life experiences, with and without disabilities. Applications from individuals with severe disabilities and those with equal status are expressly encouraged.We strive to make our recruitment process as accessible as possible and continuously work to improve the accessibility of our systems and digital applications. If you require support or any accessibility accommodations during the application process, please don't hesitate to get in touch.As a signatory of the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) and a patron of WELCOMING OUT, we are committed to fostering a respectful and inclusive workplace free from prejudice, where everyone can be themselves. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion on our website.

**AI in the Application Process: In certain stages of our recruitment process, we may use AI-supported tools to assist with the structuring, pre-screening or processing of incoming applications. These tools are used solely to support our Talent Team and do not replace human review.No decisions regarding your application are made solely by automated means. In particular, invitations, rejections and any other decisions about the outcome of your application are always reviewed and made by responsible team members.We are committed to using AI responsibly by critically assessing AI-generated outputs, ensuring transparency and minimizing the risk of bias or discrimination. Whenever AI is used as part of the process, we will inform you accordingly and provide information about your rights.