Hybrid Analytics Tooling Engineer

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About the role

  • Analytics Tooling Engineer implementing and optimizing tools for Nelnet's analytics teams. Ensuring reliable and governed access to data and supporting the improvement of analytics workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Implement, maintain, and optimize technical tools and environments used by the NDS Analytics, Insights, & Metrics teams.
  • Manage platform configuration, development environments, deployments, automation, access controls, and operational reliability across analytics systems.
  • Ensure analysts and data teams have dependable, secure, and well-governed access to data and analytics resources.
  • Configure, administer, and support analytics platforms including Snowflake, SQL Server, Netezza, Power BI, GitLab, and related Analytics tools.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues, outages, and performance problems.
  • Build, maintain, and monitor automated jobs, data refreshes, CI/CD pipelines, and workflow orchestration tools.
  • Implement error handling, alerting, and system monitoring to support reliability.
  • Support compliance reviews, audit requests, and governance controls.
  • Create and maintain system documentation, setup guides, runbooks, and knowledge base articles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field; or proven professional experience with analytics platforms and tooling.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience supporting and administering Snowflake environments.
  • Experience administering or supporting Power BI environments (eg. Data Gateways, API Integration, etc.).
  • Experience troubleshooting performance issues, platform errors, and system failures.
  • Experience with automation/orchestration tools (e.g. Dataiku, Alteryx, Microsoft Fabric, etc.) preferred.
  • Familiarity with Python (preferred) or another scripting language commonly used in analytics engineering.
  • Experience supporting AI-related analytics tools or machine-assisted workflows preferred.
  • Experience with data engineering or analytics engineering environments preferred.

Benefits

  • medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA
  • generous earned time off
  • 401K/student loan repayment
  • life insurance & AD&D insurance
  • employee assistance program
  • employee stock purchase program
  • tuition reimbursement
  • performance-based incentive pay
  • short- and long-term disability
  • robust wellness program

Job title

Analytics Tooling Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Junior

Salary

$90,000 - $120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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