Senior Analytics Engineer

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary:

Position Overview

Forward Financing is a financial technology company dedicated to unlocking capital for small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is committed to investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience.

The Analytics Engineering team is central to our Data ecosystem, transforming raw data into actionable insights. We build and optimize data infrastructure, transform complex data sets, and develop data pipelines supporting business intelligence, advanced analytics, and predictive modeling.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will design, construct, and maintain data models, collaborating with Data Engineering, Data Science, DevOps, and Business Intelligence teams. You will manage our modern analytics platform using tools like dbt, Fivetran, Snowflake, Census, and Tableau, ensuring the delivery of high-quality data products that drive innovation and informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data models and marts using dbt, adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) coding principle.
• Partner with the Data Science team to create variables used in training predictive models.
• Collaborate with the Data Engineering team on the deployment of variables that feed production predictive models.
• Work closely with the Technology team on schema changes and data migrations within internal applications, ensuring data accuracy and minimal impact on downstream data models.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to monitor, maintain, and contribute to our independent streaming dbt project for real-time use cases.
• Ensure code quality by reviewing analyst’s pull requests and ensuring adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
• Assist in evaluating and integrating third-party data sources to enhance the data ecosystem.
• Ensure data governance standards are adhered to, including implementing data quality checks, data cataloging, and managing data security and compliance.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with dbt or equivalent experience using Python for data transformations.
• 2+ years of experience with a cloud-based data warehouse such as Snowflake or Redshift.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling.
• Strong ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar.
• Preferred: Experience with Python.

(Even if you don’t check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply.)

Company Information

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Whether facing challenges accessing traditional financing or simply needing a convenient, flexible solution, Forward is committed to funding more of the millions of small businesses nationwide.

Forward Financing Core Values:

• Drive the Mission: We believe in financial opportunity for underserved small businesses. We say “yes” when others say “no.”
• Keep It Real: We value direct communication, candid feedback, and authenticity. We are an open book.
• Act with Kindness: We create an environment where caring is cool and helping is the norm. We do the right thing.
• Shoot for Extraordinary: We are inspired by innovative thinking and continuous improvement. We never settle for yesterday’s best.