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Sr. Analytics Engineer

Vaco
$130,000.00 - $165,000.00 / yr
United States, Ohio, Cincinnati
Nov 22, 2025
Vaco is growing our BI and Analytics team and is seeking an experienced Senior Analytics Engineer to join our consulting practice focused on delivering modern, cloud-based analytics solutions for our clients.
This role combines hands-on data analytics creation with solution architecture, client advisory, and delivery leadership.

Candidates should be local to Cincinnati and comfortable with in-person meetings and on-site work.


Key Responsibilities
  • Solution Design & Delivery
  • Design, build, and deploy modern analytics and reporting solutions using contemporary tooling including Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Databricks AI/BI, etc.
  • Navigate modern data platform environments to query, extract, and build analytic products in a reproduceable manner.
  • Deep understanding in designing and deploying an enterprise-wide analytics/reporting architecture using contemporary tooling.
  • Deep understanding in deploying security models, working with catalog/governance tooling, and RLS.
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Knowledge of Python/pyspark a plus
  • Client Engagement & Consulting
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients, translating business goals into analytic solutions.
  • Lead data assessments, roadmap development, and modernization initiatives.
  • Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to enable analytics, AI, and reporting use cases.
  • Provide hands-on mentorship and guidance to junior engineers and client teams.
  • Engineering Excellence
  • Establish best practices for DataOps, CI/CD, and data quality assurance across environments.
  • Implement observability, lineage, and governance frameworks (e.g., Unity Catalog, Purview, Alation).
  • Understand data modeling principles (Kimball, Data Vault, or Lakehouse paradigms) to be able to build analytic solutions from these models.
Required
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI development, and data architecture.
  • Proven experience with report migrations and modernization initiatives.
  • Experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, BigQuery, etc.).
  • Advanced skills in Python, Power BI (Power Query, DAX, dataflows, semantic models) and SQL.
  • Experience designing and implementing semantic layers or data marts for analytics consumption.
  • Strong understanding of data modeling (star schema, dimensional modeling) and performance tuning for large datasets.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Preferred
  • Prior consulting experience
  • Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD for BI assets, and data governance tools.
  • Experience mentoring junior analysts or delivering Power BI user training.
  • Exposure to enterprise-scale reporting modernization programs or analytics center-of-excellence initiatives.
Certifications (Preferred)
  • Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer
  • Databricks Certified Data Analyst
  • Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Data Analyst
  • Tableau Certified Data Analyst/Consultant

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

  • the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
  • licensure and certification requirements;
  • office location and other geographic considerations;
  • other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

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