Analytics Engineering Lead

The Democratic National Committee’s Tech team is hiring an Analytics Engineering Lead to help Democrats win elections and empower progressives across the country.

Who we are:

• We are a fully remote, distributed team living in 19 states and from a variety of backgrounds. Some of us have worked in political campaigns, others in public sector tech, and others in industry. We value diversity in perspective, lived experience, and the many paths one may take into working in political technology. We believe deeply in the promise of breaking the boom-bust cycle of political tech work and building technology infrastructure that will support campaigns from cycle to cycle and will improve with every iteration.

Who you are:

• We're focused on equipping Democratic candidates and campaigns around the country with the data and analytics resources they need to win, and are looking for an Analytics Engineering Lead to help us tackle numerous projects. Whether you've been working with electoral data teams for multiple cycles or you’ve only worked in the private sector but have volunteered on a political campaign, we'd love to talk to you.
• Good candidates are willing to get nerdy about the details while staying focused on our goal of electing Democrats. On a day-to-day basis, our team cares about things like geocoding polling places, tracking Census Bureau data releases, assessing phone number quality, and promoting inclusive labeling practices, to name a few.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of Analytics Engineers to oversee, build, and maintain the data products and infrastructure that supports Democratic campaigns up and down the ballot
• Partner with Product Managers on short- and long-term engineering priorities in support of the tech team / product roadmap, including stakeholders in data science, analytics, and engineering
• Design and oversee structures for effective data transformations between databases and multiple data sources and tools.
• Assist and advise the team in data acquisition, processing and delivery to end-users
• Serve as the technical and department point of contact between internal DNC teams by coordinating on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Build systems to ensure database reliability, security, and performance. Help analysts and other users optimize pipelines and code.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a data engineer, engineering focused analyst, database administrator, or engineering manager.
• 5+ years using SQL, Python, and other scripting languages professionally.
• Experience managing a technical team.
• Experience deploying data pipelines.
• Professional familiarity with analytical methods and predictive analysis, and experience working directly with data scientists and analysts.
• Ability to balance multiple priorities, communicate goals, and build consensus to work effectively within and across departments.
• A track record of prioritizing projects with the ability to be both self-directed and to delegate tasks to others.
• A desire to thrive in a fast-paced work environment and implement creative solutions to unique problems.
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Additional Useful Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience using dbt
• GCP experience (in particular, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage)
• Experience administering pipeline orchestration tools, such as Airflow
• Experience volunteering or working on a political campaign data team

The salary for the Analytics Engineering Lead position is $120,000 on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications. This position is not eligible for overtime wages and is a fully remote position that can be based anywhere in the United States. This is a full-time, exempt position, that may require work on weekends, and has an end date of November 15, 2024. Due to federal campaign finance rules, only U.S. citizens or U.S. green card holders are eligible for this role. See 52 U.S.C. 30121; 11 C.F.R. 110.20(i). The Democratic National Committee (DNC), is committed to diversity among its staff, and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best quality services to supporters and constituents. The DNC is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or disability, or any other legally protected basis. The DNC is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in the hiring process and on the job, as required by applicable law. The DNC will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.