Role Summary

Rivian is seeking a passionate and data-driven Senior Analytics Engineer to join our People Systems Team. In this pivotal role, you'll be instrumental in delivering impactful insights that drive strategic decision-making across the organization. You'll bridge the gap between complex business challenges and data-driven solutions through comprehensive stakeholder management, meticulous requirements gathering, and thorough data collection and research.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you'll leverage your expertise to build robust data pipelines, create intuitive and powerful dashboards, and ensure data quality and accessibility. You'll also play a key role in user education and training, empowering our teams to effectively utilize analytical tools and insights. This position requires a deep understanding of data warehousing principles, advanced SQL, and proficient Python for data transformation and automation. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous environments, possesses exceptional problem-solving skills, and is adept at collaborating with diverse stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions. A significant focus of this role will be to spearhead the strategic migration towards a next-generation analytical toolset, identifying and implementing modern solutions that enhance efficiency, accessibility, and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Data Model Design & Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable data models within our data warehouse, ensuring data integrity and optimal performance for analytical consumption.
• ETL/ELT Pipeline Engineering: Build, optimize, and manage complex data pipelines (ETL/ELT) to ingest, transform, and integrate data from various disparate sources, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and timeliness.
• Data Quality & Governance: Implement and enforce data quality standards, monitor data pipelines, and troubleshoot data issues to ensure the reliability and accuracy of our analytical datasets.
• Performance Optimization: Identify and implement performance optimizations across data models and queries to enhance the speed and efficiency of data access for analysts and business users.
• Tooling & Infrastructure Development: Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern data tooling and infrastructure improvements to enhance our analytical capabilities and data platform.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into well-engineered data solutions.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Create comprehensive documentation for data models, pipelines, and processes, and promote best practices for data engineering and analytics within the team.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a similar discipline).
• Experience: Over 5+ years of proven experience in senior or staff positions focused on data engineering, analytics engineering, or similar roles with a strong emphasis on data infrastructure and modeling.
• Advanced SQL Expertise: Deep proficiency in writing complex, optimized SQL queries, data manipulation, performance tuning, and understanding various SQL dialects.
• Python for Data Engineering: Strong ability to write clean, efficient, and scalable Python code for data extraction, transformation, loading, and automation of data workflows.
• Data Warehousing Principles: Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and schema design (e.g., star schema, snowflake schema).
• Collaborative Software Development: Proficiency with industry best practices and tools for collaborative software development, including version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab), testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Problem-Solving & System Design: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for designing and building efficient, maintainable, and scalable data systems.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential, as you'll partner with and support colleagues across the business with varying levels of technical expertise.

Preferred:

• DBT Experience: Hands-on experience with dbt (data build tool) for data transformation and modeling.
• Cloud Data Platforms: Experience with cloud-based data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift) and related cloud services.
• Data Quality & Governance: Experience with data quality, data security, and monitoring initiatives.
• Data Ingestion Tools: Experience with modern data ingestion tools like Fivetran, Airbyte, or similar.
• BI Tooling Experience: Familiarity with at least one major BI tool (Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Hex) with the ability to understand how data models support visualization needs.

Pay Disclosure

The salary range for this role is $111,000 - $138,700 for Atlanta based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.

The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.