Analytics Engineer

Contract Role: Analytics Engineer – Telecom | Central London (Hybrid)

📍 Location: Central London — 2 days per week onsite

⏳ Contract: 6 months initially

💷 Day Rate: £450–£540 (Inside IR35)

🚀 Start: ASAP

We’re hiring an Analytics Engineer to support a major telecom client. This role sits between data engineering and analytics, building clean, scalable data models that fuel reliable insights across commercial, finance, and planning teams.

What You’ll Do

• Build scalable data models (marts, business layers, OBTs) that act as a single source of truth.
• Lead end‐to‐end model development: requirements → build → testing → documentation → CI/CD deployment.
• Uphold high coding standards in SQL and dbt; review and maintain clean, well‐structured analytics code.
• Ensure data quality & PII protection using tests, validation, and secure handling practices.
• Troubleshoot data issues across source → transformation → BI layers, owning fixes end‐to‐end.
• Optimise & refactor existing models for performance and cost (BigQuery).
• Manage orchestration & environments, including dev/prod troubleshooting.
• Analyse new data sources and design models accordingly.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders, explaining technical concepts in plain language.
• Own technical debt, documenting issues and advocating for resolution.

What You Bring

Essential

• Expert SQL and advanced query writing
• Strong data modelling (dimensional, marts)
• Hands‐on experience with GCP BigQuery
• Strong dbt Cloud/Core experience
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem‐solving skills
• Ability to trace lineage and diagnose issues independently
• Experience with CI/CD, branching, merging, conflict resolution
• Understanding of data quality frameworks & PII standards
• Clear communication with technical and non‐technical stakeholders

Desirable

• Broader knowledge of modelling best practices
• Agile delivery experience
• Exposure to BI tools (Tableau etc.)
• Query performance tuning & cloud cost optimisation
• Strong ownership and independent working
• Mentoring or community contribution experience

If you have the required skills & experience, please apply promptly to be considered.