Analytics Engineer · Senior · NVIDIA

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Senior Analytics Engineer, Finance

US, CA, Santa ClaraSenior25+ yrsAnalytics Engineerposted 9 d ago

NVIDIA has been transforming computer graphics, PC gaming, and accelerated computing for more than 25 years. It’s a unique legacy of innovation that’s fueled by great technology—and amazing people. Today, we’re tapping into the unlimited potential of AI to define the next era of computing.

Skills, with evidence

  • Data modelling
    Strong SQL skills and proficiency in data modeling concepts (star schema, dimensional modeling, semantic design).must have
  • Data quality
    Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data pipelines, ensure data quality, and improve data availability.must have
  • Incremental loads
    Practical involvement with traditional data warehouse architectures, including centralized data warehouses and/or data marts, and a solid understanding of historical, snapshot, and incremental data processing patterns.must have
  • SQL
    Strong SQL skills and proficiency in data modeling concepts (star schema, dimensional modeling, semantic design).must have
  • Governance & security
    Establish and implement data governance, validation rules, and transformation logic to ensure data consistency across systems including Unity Catalog policies within Databricks.must have · not practised here
  • Spark
    We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Analytics Engineer supporting finance initiatives, with strong end-to-end analytics capabilities, spanning data engineering fundamentals, semantic layer design, dashboard development in Tableau and Power BI, and application development within Databricks.
  • Warehousing
    The ideal candidate will bring strong Finance domain knowledge, experience improving reporting and business processes, hands-on expertise building semantic layers to develop consistent, well-governed analytical data models, and proficiency designing and deploying data applications on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
  • Dashboards & BI
    We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Analytics Engineer supporting finance initiatives, with strong end-to-end analytics capabilities, spanning data engineering fundamentals, semantic layer design, dashboard development in Tableau and Power BI, and application development within Databricks.not practised here
  • Airflow / orchestration
    Background with ETL/ELT tools (e.g., dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, Data Factory, Alteryx) and project tracking in Jira.
  • Cost & performance
    Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize data pipelines, ensure data quality, and improve data availability.
  • Failure handling
    Supervise and support interface health, error handling, and reconciliation processes, proactively resolving integration failures and data discrepancies.
  • Python
    Exposure to data science tools or methodologies (Python, R, machine learning concepts, Snowflake).
  • dbt
    Background with ETL/ELT tools (e.g., dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, Data Factory, Alteryx) and project tracking in Jira.
  • Machine learning
    Exposure to data science tools or methodologies (Python, R, machine learning concepts, Snowflake).not practised here

Your plan

  1. ≈ 2 h
  2. ≈ 3 h
  3. Data modelling: the round most people fail

    Data modelling · Warehousing · dbt

    ≈ 3 h
  4. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Incremental loads · Airflow / orchestration · Failure handling

    ≈ 4 h
  5. ≈ 2 h
  6. ≈ 1 h
25 drills · Intermediate + Advanced≈ 14 hours

Not covered by the plan: Governance & security, Dashboards & BI, Machine learning.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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