Staff Analytics Engineer, Databricks (R5493)

Shield AI

Remote regions

US

Salary range

$120,000–$180,000/yr

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What You'll Do:

  • Own Gold-layer design and delivery, including facts, dimensions, domain data marts, and governed KPI implementations on Databricks.
  • Build and maintain the enterprise semantic layer through curated views, governed semantic models, and metric definitions.
  • Partner directly with business stakeholders across domains to clarify KPI definitions and resolve ambiguity before implementation.

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data engineering with strong dimensional modeling expertise.
  • Hands-on Databricks experience including Delta Lake and Spark SQL and/or PySpark, with strong familiarity with semantic-layer concepts.
  • Demonstrated experience translating ambiguous business KPI requests into precise and auditable transformation logic.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with dbt or comparable transformation frameworks on Databricks.
  • Experience building or maintaining a KPI registry, metrics layer, semantic layer, or comparable governance artifact.
  • Experience in a multi-domain enterprise environment where metrics and definitions overlap across business areas.

Shield AI

Shield AI is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems to protect service members and civilians. The company has offices across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology supports operations worldwide.

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