Senior Business Intelligence Architect

NY, Seattle, Remote

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

You’re hands-on, strategic, proactive, and truthful. Your passion for learning drives you. You have a knack for picking up the use cases from business stakeholders that inform great data models and can develop a deep understanding of source data to create the right dimensions to allow flexible and insightful analytics, measurement and reporting in a domain. You naturally build partnerships within your team and with stakeholders as a BI subject matter expert. You create momentum within your team, and see things through to completion.

KEY DUTIES

The Data, Analytics & Machine Learning team at BARK is at the heart of enabling our strategy to build highly personalized services that make dogs and their people happy! You will work with leadership across the company to understand and develop methodologies to data-enable decision making for people and algorithms across the company; informing our internal and public financial metrics, customer experience, marketing insight and optimization, supply chain, product development, and much more. We’ll be depending on you to design the right connectivity through our source systems, data warehouse and analytics repositories to design the semantic data layers that serve every major function of our business.  We’ll count on you to share best practices / industry standards in analytics and business intelligence within the Data, Analytics & Machine Learning team, and across the analytics community at BARK.  Day to day responsibilities will include:

• Designing, implementing and documenting the data models for our semantic layer of domain-specific data marts, partnering with subject matter expert analytics and business stakeholders across BARK’s major business functions
• Helping evaluate and select next generation data lakehouse and analytics technologies to support the businesses growing data needs
• Applying best practices to improve performance and frequency of data flows and key metrics informing dynamic business and algorithmic decision-making
• Acting as a technical mentor for Analytics/BI Engineers and Analysts
• Clearly communicating solution designs and results to stakeholders
• Interpreting data, tracking data lineage, identifying issues & complexities, translating nuances to reusable data flow software, and reporting key findings to inform the direction of projects

EXPERIENCE 

• 6+ years of experience architecting business data repositories supporting measurement, reporting and self-service analytics, using a variety of SQL and no-SQL technologies
• 6+ years’ experience engaging with SQL and no-SQL big data technologies; Redshift, Aurora, Postgres, SnowFlake or BigQuery preferred
• 3+ Experience with OLAP-based and Semantics-based Multi-Dimensional Analytics technologies
• Experience delivering mission critical enterprise reporting and dashboarding using Tableau and/or Looker
• Experience in data governance, privacy and regulatory compliance

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree (Master of Science or Engineering, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Analytics  *OR* 6+ years experience as a full-time BI/Data Engineer/Architect
• Excellent grasp of SQL, and familiarity with Python, AirFlow
• Excellent knowledge of Business Intelligence concepts, applications, libraries, and data warehousing
• Exceptional data manipulation skills with multiple data sources and high dimensionality
• Strong written and verbal communication skills 
• Proven ability to deliver high customer- and business-impact business intelligence projects

This position is a full-time, salaried position. BARK currently has offices in NYC, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, but for the right candidates working remotely is also an option. We offer health insurance for both you and your pup, 401k, wonderful team lunches, cold brew on tap, and a dog to pet anytime you wish. 

ABOUT BARK

Here at BARK, we love dogs and their people. We’re looking to make all dogs happy throughout the entire world (we’re not kidding). Think Disney for dogs -- we make magic for dogs and their people through our products, events, and experiences.

Our ambition level is high, the opportunity is huge, and our love for dogs is through the roof! We launched in 2011 with BarkBox, a monthly-themed subscription of all-natural treats and clever toys. Since then, we've shipped more than 70 million toys and treats to the dogs across the world and use all of that direct customer feedback to inform new initiatives and ways to make magic between dogs and their people. We’ve since expanded into other offerings as well, as we aim to become THE Dog Company for every family with a four-legged, belly-scratch-loving, interspecies family member.