Forward Deployed Engineer

Datavations is a leading New York-based data and AI software specializing in the $2.3 trillion dollar building materials industry. Our platform, powered by advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, provides manufacturers with a data-driven approach to better service customers and grow their relationships with key accounts. By simplifying massive datasets into actionable business insight, we help businesses make data-driven decisions to optimize pricing, inventory, and product assortment.  

• Customer Obsession: We are integrated in the industry with a customer-first obsession.
• Proactive Ownership: We have agency for our actions and embody an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Bias for Action: We maintain momentum with a can-do attitude; we value progress over perfection.
• Eager to Grow: We stay curious and hungry to learn, viewing every failure with humility as an opportunity to grow.
• Foster Collaboration: We work across boundaries with quiet competence, welcoming diverse perspectives and offering help unselfishly.
  
  

• →Manage client relationships and provide technical support to maintain excellence and drive new product development
• →Support end-to-end implementations to ensure data quality, adoption and customizations needed for customer satisfaction
• →Quarterback account teams and engineering resources to drive success for our customers
• →Execute on customer needs leveraging technical skillsets in a timely manner
• →Attain a holistic understanding of the entire technology from data aggregation to product delivery 
• →Develop and scale the technology from ‘data pipelining’ to ‘innovation’, to ensure accuracy of our data, as measured against client feedback 
• →Develop new product lines such as local pricing, ecommerce intelligence, and supply chain analysis to drive ROI for clients
• →Leverage Data Visualization and UI/UX knowledge to increase customer adoption and ease of use
• →Collaborate with our data science, engineering, and sales teams
• →Adopt a self-starter mentality, and inspire customers to drive value out of our data products
• →Commit to rigorous documentation of coding efforts and train incoming employees and contribute to platform engineering efforts 

• Analytics and/or financial reporting knowledge
• Deep knowledge in Excel and Power Point, storytelling with data
• Outstanding expertise and hands on experience in SQL or Python
• Project management tools (e.g. Jira) 
• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Excel, Power BI, Retool)
• Understanding of time-series statistical methods for outlier detection (Prophet, ARIMA, Tukeys Fences)
• Preferred but not required
• Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining dimensional data models using dbt
•  familiarity with data warehousing solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse)

• Building end-to-end data products
• Driving actionable insights from alternative data sources
• Retail/e-commerce, market research, startup, or analytical experience 
• Working with retail or consumer data
• Scaling  BI infrastructure to 10Tb+ data ingestion
• Hacker mentality

Preferred Location: NY, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Cincinnati, Minneapolis