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By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

We’re seeking an innovative and driven Senior Analytics Engineer to join our Data Partnerships Data Product team. This team owns the end-to-end strategy for the sourcing, development, and utility of data about market intelligence and retailer observations. This team is responsible for managing, communicating, and applying proper governance over our foundational datasets from which SGWS builds our digital products and services. We work closely with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to ensure our foundational data is fit for purpose, properly governed, and data quality standards are applied and understood. Your role will be to ensure that data and insights in your domain are properly understood, governed, and fit for purpose to maximize business impact for SGWS), and available for product teams to innovate and deliver new products and services to market that not only meet but exceed all stakeholder expectations.

Primary Responsibilities

The Senior Analytics Engineer is a full stack analyst who translates raw data into powerful tools, services, and insights that solve real business challenges for our suppliers, customers and internal sales and operational teams. This role has the hard and soft skills to build and deliver impactful data products in a business domain-aligned data products organization. They work fluidly with enterprise functions to co-create data driven insights, BI teams to enhance self-service capabilities, data scientists to develop predictive services, and platform engineers to enhance tools and works flows. We are looking for data polymaths who work with agility and embody an entrepreneurial spirit.

Examples of prior hands-on work experience:

Originated publicly available data through various means (e.g., API calls, Web scraping, file pulls) to enhance internal data and create new dimensionality to analysis
Created new, insightful data derivatives from existing raw data through aggregation, statistical inference (e.g., latent variables), and/or prediction scores (e.g., propensity, LTV)
Assisted digital product teams with deep feature launch analysis to uncover tactical opportunities for iterative improvement
Leveraged open source LLM APIs to create new functionality or new datasets
Worked with stakeholders to design new data visualizations that answer clear business needs
Combined first and third-party data into analysis that uncover new business opportunities that drive strategic prioritization
Developed real-time signals based on data analysis and models to alert sales teams of opportunities

About You

You are a natural analyst with perpetual curiosity and mind for scientific discovery
You can leverage raw, dirty, and multi-sourced data signals, design, build and deliver datasets that unlock insightful information for teams across the enterprise.
You have the ability to develop and deploy data observability automation for data products ensuring a high degree of confidence covering batched and real-time streaming data.
You can leverage basic to deep statistical skills to both aggregate and enrich datasets by developing business aligned and impactful metrics, measures, and predictive features.
You are adept in building and deploying data pipelines using industry standard cloud services and modern code bases like SQL, Spark, Python.
You have experience in designing and deploying different data structures tied to different data use cases such as relational databases, knowledge graphs, NoSQL/unstructured, etc.
Are a novice to advanced hands-on skills working with variations of data APIs (as well as providers) to extract and/or use data in place.
Experienced in standing up streaming data systems and developing data driven alerts and monitors to identify real-time opportunities for teams to action across enterprise functions.
You have expertise in one or more of the following business areas as it pertains to advanced data analytics: marketing and digital advertising, ecommerce, mobile apps, supply chain, sales, logistics, and/or finance.
Enjoy co-designing new platform capabilities and workflows for platform engineering teams in support of new ways of working and speeding end-to-end delivery.
Have a background in working directly with machine learning engineers to tackle advanced predictive modeling challenges and data processing needs.
Can leverage new AI/automation tools to accelerate data and analytics delivery such as leveraging LLMs to create conversational interfaces to data tables, generating data tables from raw datasets, generating semantics from data, generating data catalogs from datasets.

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years building data pipelines leveraging common languages such as SQL, Spark, Python, etc.
5+ years hands on experience working in a modern cloud environment (AWS, GCP, Azure) leveraging modern data structures and services (file storage, RDMS, streaming services, ELT, etc.)
5+ years leveraging statistical or algorithmic modeling methods to answer questions and solve measurement and prediction problems.
Experience working with modern datalake architectures and related services such as Databricks and/or Snowflake
Ability to breakdown multiple complex asks and deliver solutions with agility
Experience designing and deploying data products as part of a modern analytics cloud platform
Experience operating successfully in an environment of transformation with competing priorities and complex matrixed organizations
Superb interpersonal skills; ability to build relationships in a distributed working model

Physical Demands

Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at NationalTA@sgws.com

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