Data Specialist - R01571442

Data Specialist

Job requirements Key Responsibilities Logic Discovery and Requirements Analysis

• Work with pricing analysts to identify custom definitions, calculations, transformations, dependencies, assumptions, edge cases, and ambiguities currently implemented in the Gold layer.

• Reverse-engineer analyst-written SQL, spreadsheet logic, and ad hoc calculations to define intended business behaviour.

• Translate legacy logic into clear technical requirements and migration plans.

Migration to the Silver Layer

• Re-implement approved pricing definitions as governed, reusable, documented dbt models in the Silver layer.

• Follow data modelling, naming, testing, version control, and code review standards.

• Build maintainable, scalable, auditable models independent of undocumented analyst knowledge.

• Apply dbt tests for uniqueness, not-null, accepted values, relationships, and business rules.

Parity Validation and Quality Assurance

• Compare migrated Silver-layer results with existing Gold-layer outputs and resolve differences.

• Validate results across representative periods, segments, boundary conditions, and known exceptions.

• Confirm migrations only after parity review and pricing analyst approval.

Analyst Collaboration and Sign-Off

• Partner with pricing analysts to clarify calculations, confirm intended behaviour, and align on expected results.

• Lead walkthroughs and reviews; document analyst approval before retiring legacy definitions.

• Communicate risks, open questions, dependencies, and decisions to technical and business stakeholders.

Documentation and Lineage

• Document business meaning, calculation rules, assumptions, exceptions, source inputs, ownership, lineage, tests, and downstream consumers in dbt and Confluence.

• Ensure documentation enables future engineers and analysts to maintain logic without relying on the original analyst.

Gold-Layer Cleanup and Cutover

• Decommission ad hoc Gold-layer logic after the Silver replacement is validated, approved, adopted, and downstream dependencies are updated.

• Verify retired logic is no longer used and operational documentation reflects the new source of truth.

Required Qualifications

• 5–8 years of data engineering experience on analytical data platforms.

• Strong SQL skills: joins, window functions, CTEs, aggregations, conditional logic, and optimisation.

• Hands-on dbt experience across models, tests, documentation, and lineage.

• Strong Snowflake experience, including modelling, performance tuning, and warehouse concepts.

• Experience refactoring, migrating, or modernising complex analytical logic.

• Ability to untangle ad hoc SQL and spreadsheet calculations and validate outputs.

• Strong understanding of data quality, reconciliation, testing, and release controls.

• Skilled at working with non-engineering stakeholders to clarify requirements and validate outcomes.

• Excellent communication and documentation habits.

Core Skills and Tools

• SQL; Python a plus

• Snowflake

• dbt, dbt Cloud

• Airflow

• Confluence, Jira, Slack

• Data modelling, quality validation, reconciliation, migration planning, stakeholder collaboration, and technical documentation.