Senior Analytics Engineer, Orion

Senior Analytics Engineer - Role Description

Location: Remote | Type: Full-Time | Reports to: VP, Finance & Accounting

About Orion

Orion Group is a holding company dedicated to building the highest-quality, highest-throughput investing business in the world, and analytics is a core part of how we get there.

This role sits at the center of how Orion leadership understands and operates the business. Today, too much of our most important reporting is manual, fragmented, and locked in Excel. This role exists to change that by building trusted, scalable analytics that give leadership clear visibility into financial performance, operations, and growth.

We are operators at heart. We care about what works in the real world, not what looks elegant on a whiteboard. We’re not interested in vanity dashboards or perfect architectures that never ship. We’re building practical analytics systems that drive better decisions and measurable ROI.

If you’re a hands-on builder who enjoys solving messy data problems, shipping real solutions, and seeing your work directly influence how a business is run, we want to talk to you.

What You’ll Do

As the Senior Analytics Engineer, you will build Orion’s first real analytics layer and take ownership of how leadership consumes data across the business.

This is a hands-on, execution-first role focused on shipping reporting that gets used. You will build and deliver reliable dashboards and analytics models.

In this role, you will:

· Build BI dashboards for Orion leadership

· Translate existing management reporting into scalable, validated analytics models

· Source and integrate data from platform warehouses, APIs, and managed systems

· Design data models that unify financial, operational, and workforce data across platforms

· Iterate quickly based on feedback and improve reporting continuously

· Document datasets and metric definitions that are clear and reusable

· Identify data quality issues, integration gaps, and architectural friction through real execution

What Success Looks Like (first 12 months)

· 50% of recurring reports previously delivered in Excel are delivered via BI dashboard

· 100% of Orion-level financial dashboards reconcile to source systems, within an agreed tolerance

· 40% reduction of recurring manual Excel-based reporting effort

· 25%+ reduction of Ad-hoc data pull requests

· BI dashboards adopted as a primary source of truth, based on accuracy and reliability

· Deliver a documented inventory of data gaps, integration challenges, and recurring data patterns

Who You Are

We’re looking for a hands-on analytics engineer who gets energy from turning data into reliable reporting and delivering work that gets used. You likely have:

· 5–8 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI engineering, or advanced analytics roles

· Deep hands-on experience building production-grade dashboards and data models

· Strong SQL skills and comfort sourcing data from APIs, connectors, and external systems

· Experience working with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake or similar)

· Experienced working with visualization tools (e.g., Power BI or similar)

· Experience working with financial and operational data from ERP and business systems (e.g., Sage Intacct, or similar)

· A disciplined approach to producing clear documentation (manually or using AI-assisted tools such as Claude Code or similar)

· Judgment to use lightweight automation or no-code tools (e.g., Power Automate) when appropriate instead of over-engineering pipelines

You are someone who:

· Prefers execution over theory and shipping over over-design

· Is comfortable working in ambiguity and uneven data environments

· Has a strong bias toward pragmatic MVPs and rapid iteration

· Cares deeply about accuracy, clarity, and trust in data

· Can operate independently without heavy processing or a large team

· Brings sound business judgment to prioritize what matters most

You thrive in environments where the roadmap is incomplete, the data isn’t perfect, and the work actually matters.

Our Values

· Growth: Growth creates opportunity for our people

· Partnership: Growth creates opportunity for our people

· Empowerment: Our people move fast and act as owners.

· All-In: We find fulfillment in the hard work excellence demands.

· Win the Right Way: We never shortcut integrity.

· Pursuit of Quality: We take pride in doing things well and pursuing excellence.

This Role is Not for You If:

· You need a large team, perfect data, or mature infrastructure to be effective

· You prefer designing ideal architectures over shipping practical reporting

· You are not comfortable working hands-on with messy data, SQL, and imperfect sources

· You need a tightly defined scope or complete requirements to make progress

· You are uncomfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just deliverables

· You struggle to explain technical work to non-technical stakeholders

· You are looking for pure data engineering, architecture, or reporting role