Senior Analytics Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Boston, MA that is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer. This position can be remote.

Summary:
The Senior Analytics Engineer leads the design and development of analytics data architecture, semantic models, and data pipelines that power reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions. Operating at the intersection of analytics engineering, data engineering, data architecture, and artificial intelligence, this role applies advanced software engineering principles to deliver trusted, reusable data products and defines the governed semantic and contextual foundation that enables accurate AI analytics, agents, and machine learning workflows.

The Senior Analytics Engineer serves as a technical lead on complex, high-priority initiatives, establishes standards and best practices for analytics engineering, and partners with data engineering, AI engineering, and institutional stakeholders to shape the data and AI strategy. As analytics, data, and AI disciplines continue to converge, this role is expected to help define how analytics engineering evolves.

Duties:
* Architect and lead development of scalable analytics data models and lakehouse data layers using dbt, SQL, and Python
* Define and govern the semantic layer, including enterprise metrics and business logic, as a single source of truth for reporting and AI
* Lead context engineering efforts, designing the metadata, semantic models, and AI-ready interfaces (e.g., MCP, text-to-SQL) that enable LLMs and AI agents to accurately use institutional data, and measure their accuracy
* Design production-grade data and ML pipelines, including feature engineering and embedding pipelines, using Dagster and AWS
* Set engineering and data quality standards and conduct expert-level code reviews
* Lead technical planning and delivery for cross-functional initiatives and contribute to IS&T's analytics and AI data strategy

REQUIREMENTS:
* To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
* Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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