Senior Analytics Engineer

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November 25

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Axios

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Axios is a media company that delivers news and insights through various platforms, including newsletters, local news outlets, and exclusive content for professionals. It covers a broad range of topics such as politics, policy, business, technology, health, and energy, providing in-depth reporting and analysis. By focusing on quick, concise, and powerful stories, Axios aims to make news more accessible and engaging for its audience. Its offerings include free daily newsletters like Axios AM and Axios Pro, as well as events and live discussions.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

📱 Media

📋 Description

• Own the gold and silver layers of the medallion architecture: define, version, and maintain business metrics and semantic models and data glossaries. • Partner with data engineering to shape the silver layer, ensuring upstream data is complete, performant, and aligned with business needs. • Build and maintain executive dashboards and visualizations that communicate key insights effectively. • Define and enforce best practices for analytics modeling, data documentation, and visualization standards. • Design and maintain data marts, metric stores, and semantic layers that enable consistent reporting across teams. • Ensure dashboards and data models are accurate, documented, and certified for stakeholder trust. • Partner with data scientists and ML Ops to document and integrate model outputs into analytical workflows. • Lead initiatives to improve data quality, observability, governance, and glossary management across analytics workflows, ensuring strong, business-aligned definitions that prevent metric drift and maintain consistency over time. • Mentor mid-level analytics engineers, helping them strengthen technical, communication, and stakeholder management skills. • Act as a trusted advisor to product, business, and editorial leaders, ensuring analytics aligns with company priorities and drives impact. • Ensure that analytics modeling and data structures are designed to power a self-service platform, enabling teams across Axios to explore reliable data, access well-defined metrics, and derive insights independently.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-8+ years in analytics engineering, BI development, or data visualization roles. • Expert-level SQL and proficiency in transformation frameworks like dbt. • Deep experience with BI and visualization tools (Looker, Sigma, or similar). • Skilled at architecting curated datasets, semantic layers, and metric stores for consistency and scalability. • Familiar with modern data stack technologies (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or equivalent). • Strong understanding of medallion architecture, data modeling, and data governance best practices. • Familiarity with version control, testing, and CI/CD practices for analytics pipelines. • Excellent communication and data storytelling skills—able to translate technical work into clear, strategic insights. • Proven ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders and drive adoption of analytics frameworks.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match • Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network • Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option • Dental and vision coverage • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave • Generous vacation policy, plus holidays • One mental health day per quarter • Annual learning and development stipend • $100 monthly work-from-home stipend • Tele-mental health services through Headspace • OneMedical membership, including tele-health services • Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate • Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility • Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies • Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers • Virtual company-sponsored social events • A strong and positive work environment • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture