Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Carrum Health is a health tech company that connects large employers with top-tier specialty care providers through a value-based healthcare marketplace. The Staff Analytics Engineer will shape data architecture, build governed self-service analytics infrastructure, improve data quality and reliability, and partner with technical and business stakeholders to deliver trusted data products.
Responsibilities
- Shape our data architecture: Design and evolve high-scale dbt models and architecture standards that turn raw data into trusted, well-documented data products across the company
- Build agent-safe infrastructure: Put guardrails, grain definitions, and metadata in place so AI tools and agents can query our data accurately without bypassing governance
- Power self-service in Hex: Build natural-language-driven, self-service analytics experiences in Hex that let anyone at Carrum ask questions of our data directly, without needing to write SQL
- Eliminate friction: Solve recurring pain points—ambiguous metrics, silent pipeline failures, undetected data drift— with reusable frameworks and shared patterns
- Raise the bar on quality: Define what “done” looks like for a data product, building testing, freshness checks, and metadata ownership into how we ship
- Partner across the org: Work closely with Data Engineering, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to align on use cases and shorten the path from question to trusted answer
- Influence the roadmap: Contribute to roadmap and goal-setting as a decision-maker, communicating tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike
Skills
- You have deep analytics engineering roots: 7+ years in analytics engineering or a closely related data role, with a track record of owning architecture, delivery, and long-term maintenance end-to-end
- You're fluent in SQL and Python: You write SQL that's performant at scale and structured for readability, and you use Python to build reusable tooling, automation, and testing frameworks
- You've mastered dbt: You have advanced experience with dbt, including building team practices around testing, documentation, and modularity
- You think in systems, not just queries: You've made data architecture decisions with lasting structural impact, and you can explain the tradeoffs to engineers and business stakeholders in the same conversation
- You elevate the people around you: You've enabled others through mentorship, code review, process, or tooling—not because you have to, but because you want the team to level up
- You've worked at scale in the cloud: You have deep experience with cloud data warehousing (AWS Athena, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) and cost minimization strategies
- You care about the semantic layer: You've owned BI tools like Hex as a product, thinking about semantic layer health and cross-team data model standards, not just dashboard enablement
- You thrive in ambiguity: You're comfortable with a startup's pace, proactively seeking out high-value problems before they're on anyone's roadmap rather than waiting to be told what to do
- Databricks experience is a huge plus, as is experience leading platform migrations
- Bonus: you know healthcare: Knowledge of the healthcare tech industry and/or medical/pharmacy claims is a strong plus
Benefits
- Equity
- Annual bonus
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Paid parental leave
- Opportunities to connect virtually and in-person
- Stock option plan and performance bonus for eligible employees
- Flexible schedules and remote work
- Chicago and San Francisco offices available as an option
- Flexible PTO, within reason
- Summer Fridays (sign off @ 1pm local time)
- 15+ paid holidays, including Juneteenth, World Mental Health Day, and Carrum Health Day
- Annual holiday shutdown in December
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- 401K retirement plan
- An active employee-led Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (DEIJ) committee alongside several employee resource groups (ERGs) that support parents, women, and various underrepresented groups
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