Senior Analytics Engineer

Kraken•New York, NY

3d•$150,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Kraken is a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. Our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world. Kraken Customer builds the most AI-driven, innovative, forward-thinking platform for energy management. Kraken Analytics is the team that leads on data and analytics products, workflows, and analyses within Kraken. They build and maintain core, curated datasets, forming a "Unified Data Layer" comprising tables, a semantic layer, and dashboards, used by Kraken's clients and internal teams for various analytical use cases. The role will focus on building data assets for clients to understand their business, particularly in North American energy markets, working with large utilities in the United States. The team utilizes a modern cloud data platform with technologies like Postgres, AWS, Databricks Delta Lake, dbt, Python, Airflow, and Kubernetes.

Requirements

Combines market industry knowledge and experience with a passion for working with data.
Strong level of data skills/analytics experience.
Comfortable with energy/utilities and other relevant subject areas.
Learns fast and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies & processes.
Highly proficient in dbt and SQL, capable of working on large complex datasets while seeing the big picture.
Experience building data pipelines and working with engineering teams.
Curious and self-driven - capable of seeking out an answer without lots of help and support when faced with a new problem.
Highly data literate and numerate - can make sense of lots of data and shape it into a coherent story.
Great communicator, can explain complex technical problems to non-technical teams.
Has experience with some of the below technologies: A scripting language (ideally Python), Writing accurate and performant queries in SQL, Working in a modern cloud data warehouse environment, Working collaboratively on codebases using git, Front-end/Dashboarding experience.

Responsibilities

Become a subject matter expert on the Kraken data model across North America and the application as a whole.
Lead on building models, data flows, and metrics specific to the North American markets.
Work with Data and Product leadership to prioritize projects across our North American clients.
Be exposed to new technologies and tools, and receive guidance on developing your skills.
Build and maintain dashboards and data apps for senior stakeholders.
Contribute to the development of the Kraken Analytics team and to our coding standards, continuous integration testing, and AI readiness.
Lead and own major strategic projects end to end.
Work closely with a broad range of teams at Kraken.
Continue to develop your analytics engineering skills.