Contract: Sr. Analytics Engineer - Internal Data

Newsela is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer (Contractor) to join our Internal Data Team. Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will apply data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data, delivering clean and organized datasets to end users.

Key Responsibilities

Data Modeling & 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.
• Build and maintain composable data models, optimizing SQL query performance.
• Expand the data warehouse with clean, analysis-ready data.
• Transform raw data into actionable business insights working closely with stakeholders.

Data Quality & Testing

• Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores align with expected business logic.
• Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality across ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space.
• Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
• Create data visualizations in Tableau and help stakeholders explore available visualization tools.
• Lead initiatives including problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure & Automation

• Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
• Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Experience: 8+ years working with data in a software engineering environment.
• Core Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling, and data integrity testing frameworks.
• dbt Expertise: Proven experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
• Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (e.g., Dagster or Airflow), dbt, and Tableau.
• Autonomous Workstyle: Track record of working autonomously and proactively with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
• Nice to Have: Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Note: Given the nature of this contract position, this role is not 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 across K–12 classrooms.