Analytics Engineer
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Lead the delivery of analytics and data pipeline initiatives, managing a team of engineers through work planning and technical oversight. Design and maintain ETL/ELT processes while translating clinical priorities into executable technical plans.
Position: Lead Analytics Engineer / Delivery Lead
Client Location: McLean, VA
Work Location: Remote (USA)
Duration: Long Term
Rate: Quote your best
Required Qualifications:
- At least 10+ years extensive experience in Analytics or Data engineering roles, with a strong record of leading delivery of analytics and data pipeline initiatives in a research or analytics-driven environment.
- Should have expertise supporting Clinical Research teams and working with clinical electronic data capture (EDC) data and related medical or pharmaceutical datasets.
- Demonstrated experience directly managing analytics engineers or developers, including work planning, task assignment, prioritization, mentoring, and performance feedback.
- Strong ownership of project timelines, milestones, and deliverables, including effort estimation, dependency management, and accountability for on-time, high-quality delivery.
- Deep hands-on experience designing, building, and maintaining ETL/ELT processes, including production support, monitoring, optimization, and issue resolution.
- Strong technical expertise with SQL, Python, and modern data platforms, including hands-on delivery in environments such as Microsoft Fabric (Notebooks, Data Pipelines, Lakehouse/Warehouse) or equivalent platforms.
- Ability to quickly learn new data sources, clinical workflows, and platform capabilities and apply them effectively in a fast-paced, delivery-driven environment.
- Excellent communication and delivery leadership skills, with demonstrated ability to:
- Translate business, research, or clinical priorities into executable delivery plans.
- Communicate status, risks, and delivery impacts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Coordinate work across engineers, analysts, and business partners to meet commitments.
- Strong experience with source control and collaborative development practices, including:
- Enforcing branch strategies, pull request workflows, and release standards.
- Ensuring all analytics code, notebooks, and ETL/ELT logic are version-controlled.
- Maintaining change traceability across environments.
- Clear accountability for code quality and technical review, including:
- Conducting and enforcing code reviews and technical design reviews.
- Establishing and upholding coding standards, testing expectations, and documentation requirements.
- Providing constructive technical feedback and mentoring to engineers.
- Ability to work independently in a contractor role, balancing hands-on technical involvement with delivery leadership and accountability.
This is a remote position.
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