Senior Analytics Engineer

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Lightspeed's Data Office is hiring a Senior Analytics Engineer to design and own the data models that drive decisions across financial performance, GTM activities, and product insights. You'll partner with stakeholders across Finance, Revenue Ops, Marketing, and Product to deliver the analytics foundation the business runs on.

If you are someone who enjoys building data pipelines that power real business decisions and want to design canonical models that unify fragmented source systems across multiple CRMs, ERPs, and product platforms, then this role is for you. You can sit down with Finance to talk revenue recognition or with Product to map activation funnels, and walk away with a clear data model in your head. You hold a high bar on quality, push back constructively when it matters, and don't wait to be handed a well-defined problem. You scope the work, drive it to completion, and bring others along.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Design and build the data models that power the business: financial reporting (GTV, MRR, revenue recognition), GTM analytics, and product and operational insights

Design for scale and maintainability while staying pragmatic, shipping incremental value, gathering feedback, and iterating as you go

Turn ambiguous business requirements from Finance, Revenue Ops, Marketing, and Product teams into well-scoped technical solutions with effort estimates

Collaborate across our Hub & Spoke architecture, partnering with upstream data owner teams, downstream Looker/LookML developers, and other domain pods (Retail, Hospo, Operations) to design models that work end-to-end

Treat documentation as a first-class deliverable: column descriptions, model contracts, and architectural notes that power both human reviewers and AI/LLM-assisted workflows

Diagnose root problems, not symptoms, and drive systemic fixes rather than one-off patches

Own pipeline health end-to-end: monitor proactively, lead incident response, and surface risks before they become delivery problems

Autonomously manage personal sprint commitments and contribute to team-level planning, including task breakdown, effort estimation, and priority sequencing

Mentor junior engineers through coaching, code reviews, and technical sessions, and set the bar for what good looks like

What you will bring to the team:

Expert-level SQL: query performance, clean, maintainable code, and advanced analytical techniques (e.g. window functions)

Proven experience designing enterprise-grade dimensional models on modern cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake, including partitioning, incremental patterns, and performance optimization

Hands-on experience modelling SaaS / CRM / ERP source systems such as Salesforce or NetSuite, with a clear understanding of how their object models translate into clean dimensional schemas

Proven Dataform or dbt expertise in production: materializations, incremental strategies, snapshots, and macros

You communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, clarifying needs, surfacing tradeoffs, and driving alignment

A security and compliance mindset: GDPR, SOX, and data access controls are part of the job, not an afterthought

Some additional things that would be a bonus :

CI/CD experience (e.g. GitHub Actions): automated testing, linting, and deployment workflows

Python or JavaScript for data engineering tooling

LookML or equivalent semantic layer experience

Familiarity with data contracts for pipeline validation

Experience using AI/LLM-assisted tooling to accelerate development workflows: code generation, documentation, debugging, or review

Revenue/finance domain knowledge (ARR, MRR, NetSuite, revenue arrangements)

What’s in it for you:

Real ownership: you'll own canonical data models that leadership relies on, with the autonomy to design them properly and the influence to evolve team standards

A modern, well-maintained stack (Dataform, BigQuery, Looker, GitHub Actions, OpenCode) with active investment in developer experience and tooling

High-quality peers who care about craft, code reviews that make you better, and time to do things the right way

Direct line of sight to business impact: your work powers conversations with the CFO, GTM leadership, and Product teams

A growing Data Office at a publicly traded company headquartered in Montreal

Be a changemaker, You’ll enjoy:

A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work

A culture that celebrates performance

The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard

Career-defining opportunities

Plus benefits designed to keep you happy, healthy and fulfilled.

Flexible paid time off and remote work policies

Equity options, because this is your company too

Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters

Training opportunities to grow your skills and career

Health and wellness credit so you feel your best

Time off to volunteer and give back to your community

Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams

Computer purchase program to get your personal MacBook

Enhanced parental leave to support growing families

Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners)

Unlimited paid time off policy

People Experience - Our PX benefit allows you to work from pretty much anywhere in the world for 60 days a year

Health insurance: Immediate access to health, dental, vision, and life insurance for you and your eligible dependents.

Employer RRSP contribution of up to 4% of base salary to a maximum of $5,000

Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year

Employee Technology Purchase Program: Ability to an interest-free loan to purchase certain Apple products

Paid leave and assistance for new parents

Mental health online platform and counselling & coaching services

Volunteer day

We got you covered! A variety of snacks, coffee, and teas are always accessible and available in the office kitchen - Tuesday: Pancakes, Wednesday: Lunch is served, and Thursday is Happy Hour with a variety of drinks and snacks.

Fuel your growth. Find your people.

At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority. We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you—all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that’s passionate about empowering our communities.

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.

At Lightspeed, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your skill set, qualifications, experience, and market data. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We reasonably expect the total compensation for this position to be in the range of $115,000 TO $135,000 CAD. Lightspeed also provides a variety of employee benefits including, but not limited to, medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance, RRSP plan and match, paid parental leave top-up, and paid time off.

Please note that this compensation information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within Ontario (update to BC if posted in Vancouver) and reflects the amount Lightspeed is willing to pay at the time of this posting. This role represents an existing vacancy at Lightspeed. Lightspeed uses artificial intelligence–enabled tools to support certain aspects of the recruitment process; all hiring decisions are made by our recruiting and hiring teams.

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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