Lead Business Intelligence Engineer

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At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail. Whether through our No.1 most recognized marketplace, Cars.com, our industry-leading digital experience, Dealer Inspire, our trade and appraisal technology, AccuTrade, or our new Cars Commerce Media Network, Cars Commerce is essential for success in the automotive industry.  
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ABOUT YOU:

We’re searching for a highly skilled, forward-thinking, collaborative Lead BI Engineer to join our team. As part of the Enterprise Analytics team, BI Engineers are responsible for leading the design, development, and maintenance of the BI platform implementation, semantic data modeling, reporting, and dashboarding capabilities.  The ideal Senior BI Engineer candidate will be solution-oriented and passionate about data and its potential to drive business success.     

Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the implementation of robust BI solutions across the platform, ensuring accuracy, scalability, and alignment with business objectives.

• Architect and design advanced BI solutions, including data models, dashboards, reports, and data visualizations.

• Conduct in-depth audits of existing BI setups, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for optimization.

• Conduct evaluations on new BI tools and make strategic recommendations around tool selections and upgrades. 

• Provide strategic recommendations for improving data accuracy, reducing latency in reporting, and enhancing BI capabilities through new technologies or methodologies.

• Troubleshoot complex data issues, leveraging SQL, scripting languages, and debugging techniques to resolve discrepancies.

• Build complex queries on large data sets and performance tune as needed.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, marketing, product, and data teams to define BI requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ensure seamless data integrations.

• Utilize relevant APIs (e.g., cloud platform APIs, BI tool APIs) to automate reporting, extract insights, and enhance BI implementations.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for BI implementations, ensuring transparency and knowledge sharing across teams.

• Act as a thought leader in Business Intelligence, staying up to date on emerging trends and technological advancements.

• Provide stewardship over enterprise reporting data and metrics and support ongoing efforts around data governance and data quality.

• Lead a BI community of practice across the enterprise, ensuring adoption of best practices, building awareness on availability of solutions and BI tools capabilities.

• Mentor team members and analysts on enterprise data use cases, data visualization and BI tools best practices.

Required Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in cross-functional teams and communicate with colleagues in both business and technical roles

• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with key business partners by building personal credibility and trust.

• Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, manage multiple priorities, and prioritize workload

• Demonstrate the ability to learn and understand business processes and relationship of systems and applications used to accomplish those processes

• Strategic thinker with ability to understand business strategy, provide consultative business analysis, and leverage technical skills to create insightful, effective BI solutions

• A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations.

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Data Analytics, Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)

• 10+ years of experience with BI Development/Analytics in a big data environment – dashboards, data modeling,  metadata layer, using SQL queries,  Tableau and/or PowerBI.

• 7+ years of experience working with business stakeholders or executives to translate business needs into data visualizations

• 3 years Lead experience

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to debug complex BI issues efficiently.

• Proven ability to manage cross-functional projects, balancing technical requirements with business needs.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience mentoring junior team members, and fostering skill development in BI solution design and troubleshooting.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling

Preferred:

• Extensive experience in Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server/Tableau Cloud and Tableau Prep Builder

• Experience with Tableau Server Administration and Embedded Analytics

• Experience with semantic data modeling in Cube, dbt or equivalent 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Our Comprehensive Benefits Package includes:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up
• Generous PTO
• Refuel - a service based recognition program where employees receive additional paid time away to learn grow and reset
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day

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