Analytics Engineer

Contract Role: Analytics Engineer – Telecom | Central London (Hybrid) 📍 Location: Central London — 2 days per week onsite ⏳ Contract: 6 months initially 💷 Day Rate: £450–£550 (Inside IR35) 🚀 Start: ASAP We’re hiring an Analytics Engineer to support a major telecom client. This role sits between data engineering and analytics, building clean, scalable data models that fuel reliable insights across commercial, finance, and planning teams. What You’ll Do • Build scalable data models (marts, business layers, OBTs) that act as a single source of truth. • Lead end‑to‑end model development: requirements → build → testing → documentation → CI/CD deployment. • Uphold high coding standards in SQL and dbt; review and maintain clean, well‑structured analytics code. • Ensure data quality & PII protection using tests, validation, and secure handling practices. • Troubleshoot data issues across source → transformation → BI layers, owning fixes end‑to‑end. • Optimise & refactor existing models for performance and cost (BigQuery). • Manage orchestration & environments, including dev/prod troubleshooting. • Analyse new data sources and design models accordingly. • Communicate clearly with stakeholders, explaining technical concepts in plain language. • Own technical debt, documenting issues and advocating for resolution. What You Bring Essential • Expert SQL and advanced query writing • Strong data modelling (dimensional, marts) • Hands‑on experience with GCP BigQuery • Strong dbt Cloud/Core experience • Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem‑solving skills • Ability to trace lineage and diagnose issues independently • Experience with CI/CD, branching, merging, conflict resolution • Understanding of data quality frameworks & PII standards • Clear communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders Desirable • Broader knowledge of modelling best practices • Agile delivery experience • Exposure to BI tools (Tableau etc.) • Query performance tuning & cloud cost optimisation • Strong ownership and independent working • Mentoring or community contribution experience If you have the required skills & experience, please apply promptly to be considered.