Senior BI Engineer

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

Cars Commerce is seeking a highly skilled, forward-thinking, and collaborative Senior BI Engineer to join the Enterprise Analytics team. This role is responsible for leading the design, development, and maintenance of the BI platform implementation, semantic data modeling, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities. The ideal candidate will be solution-oriented and passionate about data's potential to drive business success.

About Cars Commerce

At Cars Commerce, we are dedicated to simplifying every aspect of car buying and selling. We strive to connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure, and drive local automotive retail. Our portfolio includes the #1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, and the new Cars Commerce Media Network.

Cars Commerce fosters a collaborative environment built on shared values:

• Rise Together: Putting people at the center of everything we do.
• Open to All: Encouraging open-minded communication and valuing diverse thinking.
• Caring to Challenge & Taking Ownership: Fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment.
• Doing the Right Thing: Upholding integrity even when it's difficult.

We are proud to be recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a Best Company to Work For in 2024, reflecting our commitment to employee well-being, including quality of pay, benefits, and work-life balance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee the implementation of robust BI solutions across the platform, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.
• Architect and design advanced BI solutions, including data models, dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.
• Conduct in-depth audits of existing BI setups, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for optimization.
• Evaluate new BI tools and make strategic recommendations for tool selections and upgrades.
• Provide strategic recommendations for improving data accuracy, reducing latency in reporting, and enhancing BI capabilities through new technologies or methodologies.
• Troubleshoot complex data issues, leveraging SQL, scripting languages, and debugging techniques to resolve discrepancies.
• Build complex queries on large data sets and performance tune as needed.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, product, and data teams to define BI requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure seamless data integrations.
• Utilize relevant APIs (e.g., cloud platform APIs, BI tool APIs) to automate reporting, extract insights, and enhance BI implementations.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for BI implementations, ensuring transparency and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Act as a thought leader in Business Intelligence, staying up-to-date on emerging trends and technological advancements.
• Provide stewardship over enterprise reporting data and metrics and support ongoing efforts around data governance and data quality.
• Lead a BI community of practice across the enterprise, ensuring adoption of best practices, building awareness on availability of solutions, and BI tools capabilities.

Requirements

• Highly skilled and forward-thinking.
• Passionate about data and its potential to drive business success.
• Proficient in SQL, scripting languages, and debugging techniques.
• Experience with BI platform implementation, semantic data modeling, reporting, and dashboarding.
• Experience conducting audits of BI setups and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Experience evaluating BI tools and making strategic recommendations.
• Familiarity with relevant APIs (e.g., cloud platform APIs, BI tool APIs).
• Strong collaboration and cross-functional communication skills.
• Commitment to data governance and data quality.

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Company Information

Company: Cars Commerce Website: (Website not provided in the original text.) Industry: Automotive Technology, E-commerce Recognition: U.S. News & World Report Best Company to Work For in 2024