Lead Analytics Engineer

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If you’re looking to advance your career in data analytics, expertise, and technology for the rapidly growing global CRE market, there’s no better place than Altus Group. At Altus, our work is purposeful. Every day, our employees drive impact, innovate, and shape the global commercial real estate (CRE) and PropTech industry.

Our people-centric culture empowers you to deliver in a high trust, high performance culture, surrounded by an inclusive team that’s collaborating to modernize our industry. We invest in our people with training and growth opportunities designed to propel you further in your career while providing a flexible and progressive workplace that reflects our values and teams.

Job Summary:

As the Lead Analytics Engineer, you will lead the function that bridges data engineering, advanced analytics, and machine learning within our Data and Analytics platform. In this role, you’ll focus on building ML-ready data infrastructure, developing feature stores, and leading teams that transform raw data into actionable insights powering both traditional analytics and AI/ML initiatives. You’ll define the strategic direction for analytics infrastructure, statistical modeling frameworks, and ML operationalization, collaborating closely with product, architecture, data science, software engineering, and business teams across Altus.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, mentor, and scale the analytics engineering team across data modeling, feature engineering, and ML infrastructure

• Define and execute the strategic roadmap for analytics engineering capabilities supporting both traditional BI and AI/ML initiatives

• Establish analytics engineering standards, governance, and best practices across the organization

• Drive cross-functional collaboration with product, data science, software engineering, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data products and analytics solutions

• Design and oversee implementation of scalable feature stores and ML-ready data architectures

• Lead development of core analytical datasets, feature pipelines, and training data infrastructure

• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and performance across all analytical data products

• Guide implementation of data transformation pipelines using modern analytics engineering tools (dbt, Dataform, etc.)

• Drive creation of reusable feature libraries, model registries, and self-service analytics capabilities

• Oversee development of automated testing, data lineage documentation, and business glossaries

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and SLA frameworks for all analytics engineering deliverables

• Implement data quality frameworks and automated validation processes

Key Qaulifications:

• Deep expertise in analytics engineering, statistical modeling, and building ML infrastructure at scale 

• Proven track record leading teams that support both traditional analytics and advanced ML use cases 

• Expert-level SQL and Python skills with experience in statistical analysis and ML feature engineering 

• Hands-on experience with analytics and ML tools: dbt, Feast, Tecton, MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow 

• Experience building and deploying ML models in production: classification, regression, clustering, deep learning 

• Expertise in feature engineering, feature stores, and building real-time ML data pipelines 

• Experience with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Dask, Ray) for large-scale analytics and ML 

• Knowledge of advanced analytics techniques: survival analysis, Bayesian methods, ensemble modeling 

• Experience with streaming analytics and real-time feature computation (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming) 

• Proven ability to design cost-effective ML infrastructure and optimize compute resources for training and inference 

• Understanding of model monitoring, drift detection, and automated retraining strategies 

• Experience with cloud ML platforms (SageMaker, Azure ML) and their integration patterns

• Experience translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions 

What Altus Group offers:

• Rewarding performance: We are pleased to be able to provide employees competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans, and a total rewards package that prioritizes their mental, physical and overall financial health. 
• Growth and development: As a destination for top industry talent, we’re investing in you to meet the evolving needs of our clients and deliver on your professional goals. Our Altus Intelligence Academy offers over 150,000 hours of learning materials catering to diverse stages of an employee’s career journey.
• Flexible work model: We’re modernizing our employee programs to reflect the new world of work. Our Activity-Based Work model provides you with flexibility to align your work location to the work being performed - office for connecting and collaborating, and remote for focused work.

Altus Group is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment where all clients and employees feel welcomed, accepted and valued. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
 
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