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AnalyticsEngineer–PeopleData
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“Analytics Engineer – People Data at LinkedIn. Skills: People data, Data pipelines, Data warehouse, SQL. Manage semantic layer. Maintain data pipelines”
Industry & Context.
Problem solving; Critical thinking
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
BAS degree or equivalent, 5+ years Analytics Engineer experience, 5+ years database design, 5+ years semantic layer development, 5+ years advanced SQL, 5+ years data visualization tools, 1+ years Python or scripting languages
Nice to Have
6+ years managing stakeholders, 6+ years managing engineering teams, Familiarity with ALM Toolkit, Familiarity with Tabular Editor, Familiarity with SQL Server Management Studio, Experience in enterprise integration, Experience with HR systems, Experience with People Analytics tools, Visier preferred, Experience with cloud platforms, Experience with data warehousing solutions, Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks, Experience with data validation, Experience with reconciliation techniques, Experience building HR data warehouses, Experience supporting HR data warehouses, Experience building People Analytics data warehouses, Experience supporting People Analytics data warehouses
What You'll Do.
Manage semantic layer
Maintain data pipelines
Ensure data integrity
Advance data solutions
Advance reporting solutions
Identify key insights
Create operational efficiencies
Produce accurate analysis
Produce meaningful analysis
Drive business decisions
Influence workforce planning
Influence talent strategy
Influence executive decision-making
Contribute to ETL process design
Drive clean requirements
Drive actionable requirements
Translate business logic
Create reusable data assets
Create governed data assets
Support HR Data Warehouse
Maintain HR Data Warehouse
Enhance HR Data Warehouse
Develop enterprise-level data programs
Maintain technical documentation
Maintain data dictionaries
Extract data from HR systems
Clean data from HR systems
Organize data from HR systems
Ensure structured reporting
Ensure accurate reporting
Ensure governed reporting
Ensure structured dashboards
Ensure accurate dashboards
Ensure governed dashboards
Ensure structured analytics products
Ensure accurate analytics products
Ensure governed analytics products
Influence global strategy for People Reporting
Establish scalable solutions
Bring critical thinking
Bring problem-solving skills
Stay relevant in technology trends
Resolve complex business problems
Advocate for best practices
Implement best practices in data engineering
Implement best practices in testing
Implement best practices in documentation
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functionally with engineering; Cross-functionally with data governance; Cross-functionally with business stakeholders; With Talent Engineering teams
Communication Scope
Proactive communication
Full Job Description
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works. At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. This role can be based in our Sunnyvale, Mountain View, San Francisco or New York offices. We are looking for an Analytics Engineer with experience working with HR – People data, to manage and maintain our semantic layer and data pipelines, while ensuring data quality, integrity, and accuracy. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, data governance, and business stakeholder teams to advance our data and reporting solutions. You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies, as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions. Your work will directly influence workforce planning, talent strategy, and executive decision-making. To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical, with a strong intellectual curiosity and be comfortable solving ambiguous challenges. You must be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your stakeholders will not always know what is possible, so it is important that you ask effective questions to get clarity in addition to managing expectations on what you can delive
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