Manager, Analytics Engineering

Posted at: 10/28/2026

Onsite  -  IT - Business Systems / Data / Analyst  -  Right to Hire  -  Job ID: 26-160255

Title: Manager, Analytics Engineering
Location: Katy, TX 77449 (ONSITE)
Duration: Contract to Hire 
Work Requirements: U.S. Citizen, GC Holders, or Authorized to Work in the U.S. 

Job Summary

The Manager, Analytics Engineering leads teams that transform governed data into trusted, reusable, business-ready analytical products. This role is accountable for semantic quality, governed metrics, analytical model reliability, documentation standards, and stakeholder confidence across curated data products and reporting-ready assets. This role partners with Data Platform Engineering, Data Intelligence, Product Management, and business teams to ensure analytical products are scalable, well-documented, cloud-ready, and aligned to measurable business outcomes.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Business, or related field preferred.
  • Equivalent years of relevant work experience may be considered.

Work Experience

  • 6-8 years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, business intelligence engineering, data products, cloud data platforms, or related fields.
  • 3+ years of experience leading analytics, data engineering, data product, or technical delivery teams.
  • Experience leading or directly managing analytics engineers, data engineers, data product developers, or related technical roles preferred.
  • Experience supporting governed metrics, curated analytical models, semantic layers, data quality controls, and production-grade reporting or AI-enabling datasets.
  • Retail, ecommerce, merchandising, pricing, supply chain, customer, marketing, finance, or adjacent industry experience preferred.

Skills

  • Strong understanding of analytics engineering, semantic modeling, governed metrics, and reusable data product design.
  • Hands-on or leadership experience with data build tools (DBT) or similar transformation frameworks, advanced SQL, GIT-based code management, CI/CD, testing frameworks, documentation standards, peer review practices, and approved AI-enabled productivity, engineering, and code assist tools.
  • Experience with cloud data platforms and cloud computing concepts across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including storage, computing, security, performance tuning, cost management, and production operations.
  • Experience establishing standards for effective analytics delivery, including dashboard design, metric presentation, self-service enablement, stakeholder usability, performance, documentation, and consistent quality expectations across BI tools.
  • Ability to evaluate, adopt, and coach teams on responsible AI tooling practices that improve engineering productivity, documentation quality, model development, and code quality without compromising governance, security, or review discipline.
  • Ability to translate technical delivery into clear business outcomes, risks, decisions, and next steps, including the ability to deliver stakeholder-facing analytics through business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Looker, MicroStrategy, Tableau, or similar platforms.
  • Strong prioritization, communication, and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
  • Ability to create structure where ambiguity exists while respecting the expertise and ownership of technical teams.
  • Ability to communicate delivery progress, risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and next steps to leadership and stakeholders.
  • Ability to build accountability, shared visibility, disciplined engineering practices, and practical problem-solving across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and directly manage a team of analytics engineers responsible for curated analytical data products, governed metrics, and reporting-ready assets.
  • Partner with Product Management to develop and execute roadmaps for Analytics Engineering capabilities, governed metrics, semantic models, and analytical data products.
  • Own semantic consistency, model quality, documentation standards, and metric governance across analytics engineering pods.
  • Establish delivery expectations, service levels, and operational standards for analytical data products.
  • Oversee production readiness and operational reliability by ensuring clear monitoring practices, runbooks, issue triage processes, root cause analysis, stakeholder communication, and continuous improvement of data quality and freshness.
  • Partner with business stakeholders, Product Management, AI, and Data Platform Engineering to prioritize data product needs, resolve tradeoffs, drive adoption, collect feedback, monitor usage, retire duplicative assets, and ensure delivered data products create measurable business value.
  • Balance operational support with long-term product evolution, including reuse, consolidation, and retirement of duplicate analytical logic.
  • Serve as an escalation point for data trust, metric consistency, and production reliability issues.
  • Coach Analytics Engineers and Data Product Developers on modeling, documentation, engineering discipline, and product thinking.
  • Promote effective use of approved AI tooling, including Copilot, Vertex AI, and AI code assist capabilities, to accelerate delivery, improve documentation, and strengthen engineering practices while maintaining human review and accountability.
  • Help leaders understand where work is moving, where it is stuck, and what decisions or tradeoffs are needed.
  • Support a culture of accountability, shared visibility, disciplined engineering practices, and practical problem-solving.
  • Support company initiatives and perform additional duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements & Attendance

  • Regular in-office attendance is required.
  • Flexible work schedule may be required to support business needs.
  • Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties.
  • Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures, and rules governing professional staff behavior.

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

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