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Senior Analytics Engineer

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Atlanta, GA
90K-190K
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in Atlanta, GA
90K-190K
Senior level
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will design and maintain data models and pipelines, ensuring data quality for insightful analytics across company departments.
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At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 450 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? 

The Analytics Team empowers the PrizePicks business across all departments to make data-driven decisions by providing reliable and insightful data. As an Analytics Engineer, you will be a key contributor to designing, building, and maintaining the data models and transformation pipelines that underpin our analytical capabilities. This role requires a strong focus on data quality, consistency, and the delivery of actionable insights.

What you’ll do:
  • Partner with Data Engineering to build and optimize robust data pipelines that ensure data accessibility and reliability. Collaborate with Business Intelligence to implement crucial business logic that powers BI dashboards, directly impacting key business decisions and providing broad organizational exposure.
  • Experience in designing and implementing data transformation workflows using best practices in data modeling, ELT processes, and ensuring data quality and consistency for analytical use cases.
  • Design and implement complex data transformation logic primarily in SQL with a focus on creating reusable data models that support various analytical needs. Build and maintain dbt models to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability.
  • Collaborate with data engineers, data analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements, define key metrics, and deliver actionable insights through data models and reporting solutions.
  • Implement and maintain data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data used for analysis. Develop comprehensive documentation of data models, and transformation logic to facilitate data understanding.
  • Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate and streamline the deployment of data solutions. Ensure that data workflows are thoroughly tested, integrated, and deployed efficiently, following best practices for version control, automation, and quality assurance.
  • Experience in championing and implementing data governance principles, such as data lineage and data cataloging, to improve data discoverability, usability, and trust for analytical purposes.
  • Serve as a leading voice within the Analytics Engineering team by staying current with emerging analytical techniques, data modeling best practices, and analytics engineering trends. Actively mentor other team members and promote a data-driven culture by leading through example and sharing best practices.
  • On-call rotation support, the on-call is shared across Analytics and Data Engineering teams.
What you have:
  • 5+ years of experience in an Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or data-oriented software engineering role creating and pushing end-to-end data engineering pipelines.
  • 1+ years of experience acting as technical lead and providing mentorship and feedback to junior engineers.
  • Graduate degree in a quantitative field: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Engineering) or equivalent experience.
  • Proven experience in guiding complex projects and mentoring other engineers.
  • Experience building and optimizing data pipelines for analytics, with a focus on data transformation and modeling.
  • Experience in integrating data from various sources to support analytical needs, including familiarity with data warehousing principles and ELT processes.
  • Experience in most of the following:
    • ELT tools: dbt
    • SQL/NoSQL databases/warehouses: Postgres, BigQuery, BigTable, etc
    • Replication Services: Data Stream, Hevo, Kafka, etc.
    • Scripting languages: SQL, Python.
    • Familiarity with cloud platform data services, such as data warehousing solutions (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) and storage (e.g., Cloud Storage, S3).
    • Code version control: Git
    • Data pipeline and workflow tools relevant to analytics: Dataform, Spark, orchestration tools used in data analytics workflows (e.g., Argo Workflows, Airflow, cloud-based workflow services), and customer data platforms (e.g. Segment, Rudderstack) 
    • Data visualization and BI tools knowledge (e.g., Tableau, Looker).
  • Excellent organizational, communication, presentation, and collaboration experience with organizational technical and non-technical teams
  • Strong experience in dimensional modeling, data warehousing, and data mart design.
  • Ability to translate business questions into data requirements and analytical solutions.
  • Experience contributing to and implementing data quality standards and data governance principles.
  • Preferred: experience in a daily fantasy sports platform or a similar data-intensive analytical environment, with a proven track record of delivering impactful data insights.
Where you’ll live:
  • While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote 
Working at PrizePicks:

The typical salary range for this position is $90,000 to $190,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. 

This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting.

Date Posted:  August 4th, 2025

Benefits you’ll receive:

In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks: 

  • Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans 
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Annual bonus
  • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!)
  • Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits
  • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked
  • Company-wide in-person events and team outings
  • Lifestyle enhancement program
  • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options)
  • Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development

You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. 

PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Top Skills

Airflow
BigQuery
Bigtable
Dataform
Dbt
Git
Looker
Postgres
Python
Spark
SQL
Tableau

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