Forward Deployed Engineer
Forward Deployed Engineer at Datavations, a data/AI analytics platform for the building materials industry. Day to day: manage client relationships, drive end-to-end data implementations, and build data products using SQL/Python, data pipelines, and BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, and dbt.
- Compensation
- $130K–$170K / yr
- Location
- New York
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Analytics and/or financial reporting knowledge
- Deep knowledge in Excel and PowerPoint, storytelling with data
- Outstanding expertise and hands-on experience in SQL or Python
- Experience with project management tools (e.g. Jira)
- Data visualization skills (e.g. Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Retool)
- Understanding of time-series statistical methods for outlier detection (Prophet, ARIMA, Tukey's Fences)
- Experience building end-to-end data products
- Experience driving actionable insights from alternative data sources
- Retail/e-commerce, market research, startup, or analytical experience
- Experience working with retail or consumer data
- Experience scaling BI infrastructure to 10Tb+ data ingestion
- Hacker mentality
Nice to have
- Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining dimensional data models using dbt
- Familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse)
Full description
About Datavations
Datavations is a leading New York-based data and AI software specializing in the $2.3 trillion dollar building materials industry. Our platform, powered by advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, provides manufacturers with a data-driven approach to better service customers and grow their relationships with key accounts. By simplifying massive datasets into actionable business insight, we help businesses make data-driven decisions to optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment.
Our values
- Customer Obsession: We are integrated in the industry with a customer-first obsession.
- Proactive Ownership: We have agency for our actions and embody an entrepreneurial mindset.
- Bias for Action: We maintain momentum with a can-do attitude; we value progress over perfection.
- Eager to Grow: We stay curious and hungry to learn, viewing every failure with humility as an opportunity to grow.
- Foster Collaboration: We work across boundaries with quiet competence, welcoming diverse perspectives and offering help unselfishly.
Responsibilities & skills
- Manage client relationships and provide technical support to maintain excellence and drive new product development
- Support end-to-end implementations to ensure data quality, adoption and customizations needed for customer satisfaction
- Quarterback account teams and engineering resources to drive success for our customers
- Execute on customer needs leveraging technical skillsets in a timely manner
- Attain a holistic understanding of the entire technology from data aggregation to product delivery
- Develop and scale the technology from ‘data pipelining’ to ‘innovation’, to ensure accuracy of our data, as measured against client feedback
- Develop new product lines such as local pricing, ecommerce intelligence, and supply chain analysis to drive ROI for clients
- Leverage Data Visualization and UI/UX knowledge to increase customer adoption and ease of use
- Collaborate with our data science, engineering, and sales teams
- Adopt a self-starter mentality, and inspire customers to drive value out of our data products
- Commit to rigorous documentation of coding efforts and train incoming employees and contribute to platform engineering efforts
Technical skills
- Analytics and/or financial reporting knowledge
- Deep knowledge in Excel and Power Point, storytelling with data