Forward Deployed Engineer

Datavations•New York, NY

54d•$130,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Datavations is a leading New York-based data and AI software company specializing in the $2.3 trillion dollar building materials industry. Our platform, powered by advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, provides manufacturers with a data-driven approach to better service customers and grow their relationships with key accounts. By simplifying massive datasets into actionable business insight, we help businesses make data-driven decisions to optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment. Our values Customer Obsession: We are integrated in the industry with a customer-first obsession. Proactive Ownership: We have agency for our actions and embody an entrepreneurial mindset. Bias for Action: We maintain momentum with a can-do attitude; we value progress over perfection. Eager to Grow: We stay curious and hungry to learn, viewing every failure with humility as an opportunity to grow. Foster Collaboration: We work across boundaries with quiet competence, welcoming diverse perspectives and offering help unselfishly.

Requirements

Analytics and/or financial reporting knowledge
Deep knowledge in Excel and Power Point, storytelling with data
Outstanding expertise and hands on experience in SQL or Python
Project management tools (e.g. Jira)
Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Retool)
Understanding of time-series statistical methods for outlier detection (Prophet, ARIMA, Tukeys Fences)

Nice To Haves

Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining dimensional data models using dbt
familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse)
Building end-to-end data products
Driving actionable insights from alternative data sources
Retail/e-commerce, market research, startup, or analytical experience
Working with retail or consumer data
Scaling BI infrastructure to 10Tb+ data ingestion
Hacker mentality

Responsibilities

Manage client relationships and provide technical support to maintain excellence and drive new product development
Support end-to-end implementations to ensure data quality, adoption and customizations needed for customer satisfaction
Quarterback account teams and engineering resources to drive success for our customers
Execute on customer needs leveraging technical skillsets in a timely manner
Attain a holistic understanding of the entire technology from data aggregation to product delivery
Develop and scale the technology from ‘data pipelining’ to ‘innovation’, to ensure accuracy of our data, as measured against client feedback
Develop new product lines such as local pricing, ecommerce intelligence, and supply chain analysis to drive ROI for clients
Leverage Data Visualization and UI/UX knowledge to increase customer adoption and ease of use
Collaborate with our data science, engineering, and sales teams
Adopt a self-starter mentality, and inspire customers to drive value out of our data products
Commit to rigorous documentation of coding efforts and train incoming employees and contribute to platform engineering efforts