Contract: Sr. Analytics Engineer - Internal Data

Seeking to hire a Senior Analytical Engineer - Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Newsela 's Internal Data Team.

- We are looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our data team.

- Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.

- You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.

- You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space

- You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.

- You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.

- You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:
Data Modeling and Transformation

- Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.

- Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.

- Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

- Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.

- Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

- Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.

- Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.

- Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

- Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.

- Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why you're a great fit:

- 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment.

- Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.

- You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.

- Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.

- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits
About Newsela :

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela ’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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