Junior Analytics Engineer (Financial Services)

Join Lightspeed's fast-growing Financial Services division as a talented and passionate Analytics Engineer on our FS Data team. In this key role, you'll be instrumental in overseeing all analytic and reporting needs, contributing directly to the success of every domain within Financial Services. If you have worked on data pipelines, have great communication skills, are familiar with data modelling, and have helped teams to gather both predictive and historical insights, you might be a great fit for this role! This role also involves collaborating with multiple functions across Lightspeed, including Application Engineering, Product, Operations, Risk and Finance, among others. What you’ll be responsible for: - Cleanse and transform raw data into business logic to help stakeholders build reports and data models - Analyze raw data and suggest data sources that best meet expressed business needs - Ensure the right data gets to the right people at the right time - Collaborate with the Central Data Team to build data pipelines in accordance with shared best practices and design, and feed data models for usage - Contribute to data quality initiatives and help maintain reliable datasets for stakeholders. - Ensure availability, quality and searchability of data and documentation - Write, clean and maintainable queries and scripts that are highly performing, well-structured and easy to understand and extend using version control and CI/CD - Automate testing of data models and add appropriate validations to ensure quality - Help define and improve our internal standards for data models and infrastructure - Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Ability to maintain or develop a simple report or dashboard in Looker What you will bring to the team: - Experience with SQL and Python (or equivalent language) - Familiarity with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift or similar platforms - Experience with dbt or dataform - Experience in performing data profiling, data mapping and data quality validation - Experience with data orchestrator - Understanding of industry standards for data warehousing and data modelling - Knowledge of data environments (we use GCP) as well as containerization solutions - Experience in source control, CI/CD and automated testing - A security mindset with the ability to work with compliance protocols (SOX, GDPR) - Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders - Excellent problem-solving skills - Ability to work independently and in teams - Self-motivated and great at taking initiative Some additional things that would be a bonus: - Experience in the Payments or Financial Services domain - Experience in working with SaaS solutions - Solid knowledge of cloud services (AWS and GCP in particular) What’s in it for you: Be a changemaker You’ll enjoy: - A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work - A culture that celebrates performance - The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard - Career-defining opportunities Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled. - Flexible paid time off and remote work policies - Equity options, because this is your company too - Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters - Training opportunities to grow your skills and career - Health and wellness credit so you feel your best - Time off to volunteer and give back to your community - Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams - Computer purchase program to get your personal MacBook - Enhanced parental leave to support growing families - Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners) - Unlimited paid time off policy - People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year - Health insurance: I