Senior Analytics Engineer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way.

The Analytics Engineering team at Forward plays a central role in our Data ecosystem, working with various technical stakeholders to convert raw data into actionable insights. Our team builds and optimizes data infrastructure, transforms complex data sets, and develops data pipelines that support business intelligence, advanced analytics, and predictive modeling.

As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will design, construct, and maintain data models, collaborating with teams like Data Engineering, Data Science, DevOps, and Business Intelligence. You will help manage our modern analytics platform, using tools such as dbt, Fivetran, Snowflake, Census, and Tableau, ensuring the delivery of high-quality data products that drive innovation and informed decision-making across the organization.

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable dimensional data models and marts using dbt, proactively enforcing the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle to minimize redundant logic and maximize efficiency

• Act as the primary liaison with the Data Science team to translate features into production-ready data variables required for training and validating predictive models

• Collaborate closely with the Data Engineering team to ensure the robust, reliable deployment and orchestration of data variables that feed production machine learning models

• Partner with the Core Technology teams on internal application schema changes and data migrations, ensuring rigorous data accuracy validation and maintaining minimal disruption to downstream analytical models

• Collaborate with the DevOps team to monitor, maintain, and contribute to our independent, high-performance streaming pipelines tailored for real-time analytics use cases

• Elevate team code quality by serving as a technical reviewer for Analytics team pull requests, coaching junior members, and ensuring strict adherence to internal standards for style, maintainability, performance, and modern best practices

• Evaluate, integrate, and operationalize high-value third-party data sources to strategically enrich and expand the overall data ecosystem

• Champion data governance and quality across the data platform, including the implementation of automated data quality checks (using dbt tests), thorough data cataloging, and ensuring compliance with data security and regulatory standards

• 4+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or Business Intelligence

• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining production-level data transformation pipelines using dbt or equivalent scripting experience in Python

• 2+ years of experience with a cloud-based data warehouse such as Snowflake or Redshift

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and data modeling

• Demonstrated strong ability to quickly translate complex business needs and ambiguous requirements into robust, scalable technical data solutions

• Experience with business intelligence tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar

• Bonus Qualifications: Hands-on experience with Python for data scripting, automation, or predictive modeling support

Total Rewards:

Additionally, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package, including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, a flexible time-off policy, paid parental leave, 401k match for US employees, wellness reimbursement, volunteering days, annual professional development budget, and charitable donation match.

Forward is proud to be a remote-first company, keeping workplace flexibility a top priority for our employees. As a business, we are focused on impact; we are more concerned with your contributions to the success of the company than where you get your work done. To help facilitate in-person collaboration, employees are welcome to work from one of our premiere office locations.

When we aren’t collaborating to drive business and support our customers, we’re finding virtual and in-person ways to get to know our colleagues, celebrate team wins, and have fun together!

• Drive the Mission - We believe in financial opportunity for underserved small businesses. We say “yes” when others say “no.”

• Keep It Real - We value direct communication, candid feedback, and authenticity. We are an open book.

• Act with Kindness - We create an environment where caring is cool and helping is the norm. We do the right thing.

• Shoot for Extraordinary - We are inspired by innovative thinking and continuous improvement. We never settle for yesterday’s best.

About Us:

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Whether facing challenges accessing traditional financing or simply needing a convenient, flexible solution, Forward is committed to funding more of the millions of small businesses nationwide. Forward offers revenue-based financing – delivering an upfront sum of working capital in exchange for a set amount of the business’s future revenue. By simplifying the requirements, streamlining the process, and using advanced proprietary technology, Forward is often able to deliver funds same day – giving more businesses the financial opportunity they need to thrive. Plus, with their dedicated teams and award-winning service, customers get personalized support when they need it most.

Since 2012, Forward has expanded access to capital by providing over $4.1 billion in funding to more than 80,000 small businesses. The company is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau with an Excellent / 4.7 stars rating on Trustpilot.com. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is dedicated to empowering both its team and the customers they serve, helping them succeed and thrive.

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Forward Financing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and is committed to fostering a fair and inclusive culture built on a foundation of high performance and exceptional customer experience. With a laser focus on employee impact, we’re able to reduce biases and ensure the right people are in the right jobs to contribute to our mission. The varied perspectives of our people fuel innovation and make us a stronger team. By embracing what makes each of us unique, we create a supportive environment where people feel valued, accepted, and empowered to thrive.

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