Analytics Engineer - Data Ops

Job Description:
The Analytics Architecture team is an established team of data practitioners supporting decision makers across the entire company. We use our data platform to improve outcomes for our colleagues, our leadership, our customers, and everyone in the Pluralsight community. In addition, we are a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths.
In this role, you will need to use your knowledge of data engineering, database performance, data migration strategies, scripting, and data architecture to function collaboratively within a team environment. We are looking for someone who will apply software engineering standard methodologies to analytics code via the utilization of version control, testing and validation processes, and continuous integration.
Who you're committed to being:

• Eager to dive in to data sources to understand availability, utility, and integrity of our data
• Passionate about data, analytics and automation with experience cleaning and modeling large quantities of raw, diverse, and disorganized data
• Creator of reproducible and extensible work
• Appreciate being on a team that values and encourages diverse ideas, backgrounds, and strengths
• Carefully consider the ethical and security implications of choices you make when using data, as well as the impact of your work on customers and colleagues
• Respect and invite fair feedback while promoting the identification and open discussion of errors, risks, and unintended consequences
• Deeply understand existing and new technology trends, and you work with partners to review and recommend innovative and efficient solutions

What you'll do:

• Developing and supporting data delivery pipelines to customers
• Building and maintaining production data pipelines for analytics across the business
• Developing tooling and solutions for data practitioners across the company using a deep understanding of their objectives and problems
• Improving observability and maintainability in our data environment, including uptime, usage, data quality, and data freshness
• Committed to improving processes throughout the data environment via automation
• Creating, implementing, and improving standards for production-worthy data flows
• Create and maintain documentation on processes, policies, application configuration and help-related materials as applications are developed

Experience you'll bring:

• 3+ years of taking a multidisciplinary approach to data operations: we emphasize picking the right tool for the job.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud data technologies (Snowflake & AWS preferred).
• 2+ years of experience administering data visualization platform such as Tableau (preferred), PowerBI, Sigma, or Looker.
• 2+ years of experience developing, operating and maintaining data pipelines utilizing dbt.
• 2+ years of experience automating a data platform with scripting tools (e.g. Powershell or Python).
• 2+ years of experience with tools for ingesting data (e.g. Fivetran, Stitch, Python) and integrating data with other systems (e.g. Census, Hightouch).
• 1+ year of experience with advanced orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow, Prefect, Dagster).
• 1+ year of experience building CI\\CD pipelines that automate IaC and artifact deployment using tools such as Terraform and Github Actions.
• Effective communication skills with technical team members as well as business partners.
• Ability to tackle problems independently and prioritize work based on the anticipated business value.

Requirements:

• More than three years of implementing a multidisciplinary approach to data operations, we place a strong emphasis on selecting the appropriate instrument for the task.
• Three or more years of expertise with cloud data technologies, preferably with AWS and Snowflake.
• Two or more years of experience managing data visualisation platforms, such as Looker, Sigma, PowerBI, or Tableau (recommended).
• Two or more years of expertise creating, managing, and preserving data pipelines using DBT.
• Two or more years of expertise using scripting tools (like Python or PowerShell) to automate a data platform.
• Two or more years of experience with data ingestion technologies (such as Fivetran, Stitch, and Python) and data integration with other systems (such as Census and Hightouch).

Travel Requirements:
While Pluralsight operates under a remote and hybrid work model, we believe that in-person connection and collaboration are important. Recurring travel to our HQ in Utah may be required depending on the role and team member location.
Why you'll love working here:

• We're hybrid-friendly
• We're mission driven and guided by our culture pillars
• We have a strong commitment to diversity and belonging
• We cultivate a culture of trust, autonomy, and collaboration
• We're lifelong learners and champion team member growth and advancement
• We've got you covered - team member benefits include competitive compensation packages, medical coverage, unlimited PTO and Summer Fridays, wellness reimbursements, Pluralsight subscription, professional development funds and more.

About us:
We're Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company that helps teams build better by knowing more and working better together. Using our Skills, Flow, and Cloud products, teams can develop critical skills, improve processes and gain data-driven insights.
Learning and development are at the core of who we are. We're out to help every technologist build better, and we're looking for curious, talented people to help us inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals. Our culture of autonomy, continuous learning, and collaboration creates an environment for growth and empowers us to drive impact through innovation.
Physical and Mental Requirements:
Work is performed in an office (or home office) environment and requires the ability to operate office equipment and keyboards. Sedentary work. Repetitive work. Ability to perform tasks related to documentation, data analysis, transcription and extensive content analysis. Learn new tasks, remember processes, complete tasks independently, and make timely decisions in the context of a workflow.
EEOC Statement:
Bring yourself. Pluralsight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, age or protected veteran status. Pluralsight will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please visit the bottom of our website to learn how to request an accommodation.
For more information on Pluralsight's commitment to building a more diverse and inclusive workforce, please review our most recent Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here.
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