Sr Analytics Engineer

Avant • Chicago, IL

6d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Avant is a high-growth fintech company dedicated to creating rewarding financial products for the everyday consumer. As a profitable, scale-up organization, we are focused on accelerating our market share growth and expanding our suite of product offerings. We’re looking for builders and problem-solvers to join our Chicago-based team and help us define the next chapter of our growth.
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will be at the heart of Avant’s technical evolution. This isn’t a maintenance role; you’ll be a key player in designing and building the foundational data and analytics solutions that power our products and decision-making. Alongside that build work, you’ll partner directly with Business Operations and Product teams – understanding their needs, shaping those needs into a solution concept, and planning the work before implementing it on our stack.
You will tackle the dual challenge of scaling our core systems for the future while pioneering the practical application of Generative AI to create real business differentiation.
You will join a focused, agile team with significant autonomy and a mandate to build and optimize. If you are a curious, hands-on engineer who thrives on variety and wants to shape how a successful fintech scales its most critical capabilities, this is the opportunity for you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in data or platform engineering.
• Strong data engineering and software development skills, experience building and deploying data solutions on modern data platforms like Databricks, and a solid understanding of data modeling and process automation. While our stack is SQL and Python heavy, we value engineering principles over specific tool expertise.
• Comfortable in a business-facing environment – you can work with non-technical stakeholders to understand their processes and challenges, and turn that understanding into a solution concept and technical specification.
• You can operate at multiple levels of abstraction, from high-level system design to hands-on coding. You approach unfamiliar tools and patterns with excitement and a desire to learn.
• You are a practical thinker who can critically evaluate tools and ideas. You’re comfortable building rapid prototypes and iterating on proofs-of-concept to find the best path forward.
• You can articulate complex technical ideas and proposals, fostering open and productive design discussions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with our core stack: Databricks, dbt, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow.
• Familiarity with specific business domains (Accounting/Finance, Credit Risk Modeling, Marketing, etc.)
• Personal projects or a demonstrated interest in exploring GenAI or other emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement solutions to automate the end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Seamlessly integrate our complex ecosystem of systems, tools, and partner organizations.
• Develop data solutions that empower teams with self-service access to data and insights, while ensuring rigorous adherence to data and process governance.
• Evolve and expand our core data and analytics stack – working with technologies like Databricks, dbt, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow – to make advanced capabilities accessible to everyone, with a growing emphasis on agentic development.
• Partner closely with Business Operations and Product teams: understand their needs and challenges, shape a clear solution concept, and build the tools that will accelerate their work.
• Move beyond the hype and contribute to the practical adoption of GenAI, focusing on solutions that deliver real business value.
• Help define patterns and practices for enabling reliable, observable, and cost-effective GenAI tooling for broad use across the organization.
• Empower analysts with agentic tooling that will help streamline and automate their daily operations.

Benefits

• Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
• 401(k) match
• Flexible Time Off
• Flexible Work Environment - (i.e. Mon/Tues/Thurs in-person)
• Generous Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance and Post-parental leave ramp-up program
• Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
• Summer Fridays
• Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
• Swag

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed