Principal Analytics Engineer, Bluecore
$200-240k
+ Stock option equity
AI powered customer insight technology
Open for applications
AI powered customer insight technology
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-240k
+ Stock option equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform casual shoppers into lifelong loyal customers.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years as tech lead for a high-performing data team
- 5+ years working in data pipeline orchestration & dwh design both as an architect and developer, with 3+ years using dbt. Extensive experience with complex orchestration, macros, and performance optimizations required
- 5+ years architecting & developing a cloud data warehouse supporting client-facing and internal-facing business use cases,
- Advanced knowledge of Python for analytics and data workflow/automation use cases
- Expert level knowledge of SQL
- Demonstrated success scaling the “modern data stack” while managing cost and performance
- Demonstrated success implementing coding standards, review processes, and other operational process
- Working knowledge of adjacent technologies, e.g., Terraform, NoSQL databases, Airflow
What the job involves
- Principal Analytics Engineer has impact across multiple teams in Bluecore. The role is critical to the technical success of Bluecore as we continue to scale, and has high visibility to VP & C-suite leaders. You will oversee continued development of critical infrastructure, revenue-touching products like Identification and Extensibility, and enable internal KPI development and measurement strategies
- This role sits on the DataOps team within Engineering. DataOps owns analytics data transformation, analytics products, and internal BI and is part of the broader data function
- The role of Principal Analytics Engineer role drives business outcomes by enhancing Bluecore’s ability to create sustainable value from data
- As a technical leader, you will design and develop business-critical data assets, set development standards, and advocate for tech investments that support Bluecore’s growth. You’ll lead complex, multi-team initiatives, ensuring reliable, scalable, and cost-effective data infrastructure. Additionally, you’ll mentor the data team and collaborate across engineering to elevate Bluecore’s data maturity and competency
- Define and execute Bluecore’s long-term data strategy, ensuring alignment with client impact, business goals, and scaling needs
- Lead development of technically complex transform projects to create business-critical data assets. These often are core roadmap products (e.g., identification analytics, data extensibility )
- Architect and develop complex data models and ETL/ELT, ensuring they support Bluecore’s needs for timely analytics and exports
- Lead the evaluation and integration of new technologies, such as those related to scaling data pipeline orchestration and data sharing with clients, e.g., Snowflake, use of LLMs to Bluecore analytics
- Lead performance and cost saving initiatives and manage slot spend & storage costs across analytics infrastructure
- Maintain thought leadership in the market through blog posts, speaking engagements, and/or social media
- Own commercial relationship with dbt, and support commercial relationship with GCP (BigQuery usage)
- Mentor a team of high-performing analytics engineers through regular code reviews, technical workshops, and personalized feedback
- Develop and implement a structured onboarding program on Analytics Engineering/our data warehouse for new team members, incorporating hands-on projects with dbt to accelerate their integration into the team
- Support the growth of product analysts & BI staff to become stronger technical contributors
- Act as liaison to other parts of Bluecore’s engineering functions, developing working knowledge of adjacent infrastructure e.g., Terraform
- Enhance collaboration with engineering teams to ensure that data quality, maturity, and extensibility are integral to the software development lifecycle
- Own the development standards, process, and documentation policy for our analytics data orchestration, dbt instance, and data warehouse, including creation and application of style guides
- Ensure data quality - maintain and improve data testing and pipeline observability investments that preserve data quality and enable quick issue discovery and resolution
- Implement a centralized data catalog with technical and business metadata, ensuring all stakeholders can easily discover and understand available data, its lineage, critical business logic and usage constraints
- Oversee the development of a disaster recovery plan, including regular backups and failover mechanisms, to guarantee business continuity in the event of data infrastructure failures
- Lead hardening efforts for dbt, ensuring availability, performance and cost containment over the critical periods (e.g., Thanksgiving holiday weekend)
- Maintain data privacy and security policies to all DataOps infrastructure
Our take
Bluecore uses data gained from direct marketing like email, social media, site activity and combines that with machine learning to make better predictions about who might want to buy what. In turn this helps turn casual consumers into lifetime customers for its clients, predominantly large retailers such as Sephora, CVS, Teleflora and Tommy Hilfiger.
Competitors include Wunderkind, dotdigital Engagement Cloud, Salesforce Email Studio and ActiveCampaign.
The business proposition of Bluecore is widely valued by both the investment and retail community thanks to its focus on predictable customer bases within an increasingly unpredictable market. After its unicorn-making Series E funding in 2021, Bluecore continues to reinvent how brands and retailers can engage with shoppers, helping drive the shift toward digital-first commerce. Over 2022, Bluecore has been expanding its leadership team and making forays into mobile technology.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2021
$125m
SERIES E
May 2020
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $244.3m
Company benefits
- Highly competitive compensation package including salary and equity as well as the opportunity to work for one of the fastest growing marketing technology companies
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Monthly discretionary reimbursement towards fitness, home office and/or Learning and Development opportunities
- Generous Parental Leave & flexible vacation policy
Company values
- As simple as possible, as powerful as necessary - We stay focused on driving progress for Bluecore and our customers today, with an approach to tailor and design for tomorrow, without carrying the heavy burden of unnecessary complexity.
- We win when our customers win - Bluecore wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the quantifiable success we drive for our customers through our people as well as the processes and technologies we offer.
- Seek lessons in success and failure - The lessons learned from failures can be almost as valuable as those learned from successes. They remind you of the unlikeliness of success and when to recognize it.
- #onebluecore - Whenever you see something great happen, it's rarely the result of the work of an individual, but the culmination of the work of a team's effort, both seen and unseen.
- The best solutions matter - Think in solutions, not just problems. The best ideas come from anywhere, sometimes even where you least expect them. Everyone has great ideas if you create opportunities to share them.
- Act with intention - As a team, we understand our goals, hold ourselves accountable and take ownership of the actions required to achieve incredible outcomes.
- Imagine the possibilities - When we build something, we limit ourselves if we only think about the current state of the problem we are solving for. We stretch our boundaries and embrace the possibilities that come with it.
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Leadership
Fayez Mohamood
(CEO)Having studied for an MA, at Georgia Institute of Technology, they worked as a Microprocessor Design Engineer at AMD, before working in Software Development at The MathWorks for 3 years. They left their position as Head of Product at BigDoor Media in January 2013 to co-found Bluecore the following month.
Max Bennett
(Advisor)They worked as a Derivatives Trader at Goldman Sachs for just under a year before working briefly as an Associate at Techstars. In 2013, they co-founded Bluecore, serving initially as CPO and since February 2021 as an Advisor.
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