Contract: Lead Analytics Engineer - Data Team Remote - Argentina; Brazil; Mexico; Colombia; Chile; Costa Rica

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Washington, US
Remote

Job Description

Contract: Lead Analytics Engineer - Data Team

Remote - Argentina; Brazil; Mexico; Colombia; Chile; Costa Rica

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico or Argentina for Lead Analytics Engineering Data Team

  • We are looking for a Lead Analytics Engineer to join our data team.
  • Reporting to the Hiring Manager, you will be responsible for applying data engineering best practices to analytics code to transform, test, and document data.
  • You will provide clean and organized data sets to end users.
  • You will be provide expert code reviews and mentorship to other engineers in the data space
  • You will be responsible for building and maintaining composable data models, as well as optimizing SQL query performance for the models you build.
  • You will transform raw data into business insights, working closely with stakeholders and developing analyses to answer critical business questions.
  • You will create data visualizations and help stakeholders explore and understand the data visualization tools available to them.

Why you'll love this role:Data Modeling and Transformation

  • Build new analyses and support existing ones using SQL and Python.
  • Apply software engineering principles like version control and continuous integration to the analytics codebase.
  • Expand our data warehouse with clean data ready for analysis.

Data Quality and Testing

  • Apply advanced data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned with expected business logic.
  • Implement validation checks and automated testing procedures to manage data quality in your ETL/ELT pipelines.

Collaboration and Communication

  • Work with stakeholders to define business logic and data expectations.
  • Help drive a change in the usage of data by actively surfacing insights to stakeholders.
  • Lead initiatives and problem definition, scoping, design, and planning.

Infrastructure and Automation

  • Build tools and automation to run data infrastructure.
  • Manage large-scale data migrations in relational datastores.

Why You're a Great Fit

  • 8+ Years experience working with data in a software environment.
  • Required Skills: Mastered proficiency in SQL and Python; advanced experience managing business semantic layer tooling, data catalog tooling and data integrity testing frameworks. Experience with dbt orchestration and best practices.
  • You have a track record of working autonomously and proactively, with deep domain knowledge of data systems.
  • Required Tech Stack: SQL, Python, relational datastores, DAG tooling (like Dagster or Airflow), dbt and Tableau.
  • Experience with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Terraform) and document, graph, or schema-less datastores.

Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits

About Newsela

Newsela is a leading education technology company dedicated to meaningful classroom learning for every student. We deliver integrated, AI-powered solutions designed to unlock student engagement, empower teachers, and drive meaningful learning outcomes. Our suite of products supports knowledge and skill development, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and data-informed decision-making across K–12 classrooms. Grounded in learning science research, Newsela’s solutions integrate content, assessment, and analytics to help educators track progress, understand student outcomes, and deliver high-impact instruction that supports every learner.

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Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

SqlPythonDbtTableauAwsGcpTerraformData engineeringData modelingData qualityData testingData visualizationInfrastructure and automation

Employment Type

CONTRACT

Level

senior

Posted

4/28/2026

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