The Role
As a Staff Analytics Engineer in Ascenda's Data Team, you will act as a
Data Architect
and
technical leader,
designing, building, and governing our
data medallion architecture
to deliver reliable, scalable, and high-trust data products - serving both internal and external stakeholders.
You will shape how our
loyalty-as-a-service
business models its data, metrics, and data products for enterprise clients and partners.
You'll collaborate closely with product managers, commercial account managers, engineers, and data scientists in a modern, fast-moving environment that values
autonomy, clarity, and measurable outcomes.
Your Impact
- Architect the data foundations that enable both internal teams and global partners to turn raw data into trusted insights powering real business decisions.
- Champion dimensional modelling principles, ensuring our medallion architecture scales efficiently with increasing data volume, variety, and complexity.
- Design, standardise, and evolve our data modelling (dbt) frameworks to transform raw data into self-explanatory, performant, and reusable datasets for analytics and reporting.
- Empower analysts, engineers, and business teams with high-quality semantic layers and data models that serve as a single source of truth across Ascenda and our partner ecosystem.
- Drive excellence in our modern data stack - AWS Redshift, dbt, Airflow, Meltano, Python (Pandas, Jupyter) - ensuring performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentor analytics engineers, define best practices, and embed data quality, governance, and observability throughout our data stack.
- Work closely with data engineers, scientists, and AI engineers to power machine learning workflows and predictive models.
Who You Are
- 7-10 years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data modelling within large-scale data environments (fintech, banking, e-commerce, telco, etc.).
- Deep hands-on expertise with dbt, applying best practices in modular design, macros, reusable patterns, and unit testing.
- Proven experience designing and evolving enterprise-scale data models (Kimball, Inmon, or Data Vault).
- Strong SQL and Python skills, with a performance-driven mindset and production-ready practices (CI/CD, version control, monitoring).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to draw insights and make data-driven recommendations.
- Excellent business acumen - able to translate product and business stakeholder needs into scalable data models and semantic layers.
- Outstanding communicator who can articulate architectural trade-offs and influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Collaborative, proactive, and self-motivated, with a commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
- Keeps up-to-date with emerging data and AI technologies, actively exploring innovative applications such as GenAI for analytics and data automation.
- Strong alignment with Ascenda's core values of growth mindset, hands-on ownership, supportive collaboration, and radical simplicity
