Senior Data Analytics Engineer

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you’re joining a mission-driven team that’s passionate about making a difference. You’ll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company’s success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone’s voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

Working@AIS

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Data Analytics Engineer.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Optimizes complex SQL; applies advanced data modeling; leads robust ETL/ELT; uses big data technologies (e.g., Spark); enforces governance; implements ML/predictive solutions; manages scalable pipelines.

• Work & Complexity: Solves high-complexity integration and performance challenges; runs multiple projects; delivers custom analytics solutions and automation for scale.

• Quality & Independence: Sets benchmarks for data quality; drives continuous improvement; makes significant technical decisions with minimal oversight.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross-functional work; mentors engineers; communicates complex insights to senior leaders; integrates multi-stakeholder feedback.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic consultation, leads client interactions, and advances consulting best practices.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Senior Data Analytics Engineer.

Project Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Analytics Engineer as part of our Data and Analytics Platform. In this role, you will apply data science principles with the technical and architectural expertise of a data engineer. This role will be focused on building robust and scalable data workflows and products, within the semantic layer, to help business stakeholders and analytic teams make data-driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams to define business goals, KPIs, metrics, and ensure data assets support analysis and decision-making.

• Work with data scientists, actuaries and other analytical colleagues to collect and clean data for analysis

• Design, develop, and maintain Gold-layer analytical datasets, data models, storage structures, and Power BI-ready semantic models.
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable, reusable, and governed data pipelines using Databricks and PySpark.

• Develop and maintain documentation for all data products

• Troubleshoot production data quality issues.

Required For This Opportunity

• Proficiency in a modern data technology stack (e.g. Databricks, Azure: Synapse, Fabric, etc.)
• Strong understanding in Apache Spark or other big data frameworks (e.g. Hadoop); distributed computing experience a plus
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases and database design
• Intermediate to Advanced level in Python; working knowledge within PySpark a plus
• Strong proficiency in data pipeline and workflow management tools (e.g. Airflow, ADF)
• Strong analytical skills and experience with data modeling

Nice to Have Skills

• Strong project management and organizational skills

• Proven ability to work independently, collaborate across teams, and manage multiple priorities.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions and maintain effective documentation and governance standards.

AIS Careers

A company with a commitment to building strong relationships with our clients and employees for almost 40 years.

Top-Tier Partner since 1994

AIS has a valued and long-term partnership with the Microsoft Corporation dating back to 1994 when Microsoft first launched its partner program. Since then, we have focused on growing our technical competencies to complement Microsoft’s product innovations and new feature releases. As one of the first 15 partners to attain all possible Microsoft Solution Partner Designations, we are continually aiming to progress the enterprise-level innovations of our clients.