Affirm

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Analytics Lead, Full Stack

Data ScientistData ScientistFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2012H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

35 days ago

Salary

$160K - $230K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAirflowCloudETLNumpyPandasPythonSQL

Job Description

• Design and deliver relational and non-relational database models, data pipelines, reporting, and visualization solutions while supporting all phases of the analytics development life cycle (ADLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment. • Develop, maintain, and scale robust ETL/ELT pipelines across HR data sources (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse Recruiting, internal tools such as Arbor), ensuring reliability, performance, and extensibility. • Architect and implement scalable data models optimized for analytical querying and long-term maintainability. • Ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across all data assets, introducing automation and best practices for monitoring and validation. • Collaborate with People Analytics stakeholders to translate requirements into sound technical solutions and influence longer-term data architecture decisions. • Manage and optimize cloud data warehouse infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake), including performance tuning, cost management, and secure access patterns. • Leverage AI and LLMs to automate data quality checks, enhance metadata management, and extract insights from unstructured HR data. • Stay current on technology best practices and advocate for engineering excellence across the People Analytics team. • Own and manage data governance, security, privacy, and retention standards across all People Analytics systems.

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years and expertise with dbt (Data Build Tool), SQL and Python required; including:
  • Experience writing clean, computationally efficient code involving ETL processes and data manipulation via dbt, SQL, and Python.
  • Demonstrated ability to design and build efficient, analytics-ready data models in dbt, transforming raw or unstructured data into well-defined marts.
  • Comfort with production level IDEs (e.g., Cursor, Visual Studio) and Version Control (e.g., git, specifically GitHub).
  • Experience using standard Python analysis packages (e.g., Pandas, NumPy).
  • Experience with the following required:
  • Snowflake or other cloud data warehouse.
  • Sigma or other modern BI platform.
  • Fivetran or similar integration platform for integrating structured, unstructured, or unclear data formats.
  • Airflow or other orchestration platform.
  • Experience with the following preferred:
  • Leveraging LLMs for data transformation or analysis; MLOps.
  • Data lakes and/or Iceberg table format.
  • Custom data application development using Python or similar language (i.e. Streamlit dashboards, Slackbots).
  • Additional Qualifications:
  • Strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to think creatively and critically in a dynamic, fast-paced, and ambiguous environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, influence cross-functional partners, and mentor other team members.
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort translating technical topics for non-technical audiences.

Benefits

  • Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
  • Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
  • Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
  • ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount

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