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Role

Data Engineering & Business Intelligence.

Configures data architectures, warehouses, marts, and reporting models for analytics and decisions

SeniorSoftware spend $7,800 / seat / yr (2026)129 contacts in the graph hold this role

Sample taken from the live graph on 7 October 2026; refreshed on demand.

What this role actually does

Responsibilities and pain points, sourced from the production graph.

Key responsibilities

  • Design and Operate Data Pipelines That Extract, Load, Transform, and Serve Governed Datasets for Analytics, Reporting, and AI Use Cases.
  • Maintain Data Warehouse and Lakehouse Structures That Balance Query Performance, Cost, Security, and Business-user Access.
  • Build Certified BI Dashboards, Semantic Models, and Recurring Reports That Executives and Operating Teams Use for Decisions.
  • Verify Data Accuracy, Freshness, Completeness, and Lineage Before Datasets Are Promoted Into Production Reporting.
  • Translate Stakeholder Questions Into Metric Definitions, Source-system Requirements, and Documented Dashboard Specifications.
  • Troubleshoot Failed Jobs, Broken Dashboards, and Upstream Schema Changes Within Agreed Data SLAs.

Software pain points

  • Dashboards break after upstream application teams rename columns or change event payloads without notice
  • Critical datasets miss freshness SLAs because orchestration failures are hidden across DAGs, warehouses, and BI refreshes
  • Multiple teams define the same metric differently across dbt models, spreadsheets, and BI dashboards
  • Manual connector maintenance consumes engineering time whenever SaaS APIs change or add fields
  • Warehouse bills rise after inefficient models, unbounded BI extracts, or poorly scheduled jobs hit production
  • Stakeholders do not trust reports because lineage, ownership, and last-refresh metadata are not visible

How this role buys

The categories they buy, the people who approve.

Top software categories

  • Columnar Database Software
  • Data Integration / ETL
  • Data Transformation
  • ETL Tools
  • Visitor Behavior Intelligence Software
  • Data Quality Tools

Decision makers

  • Telesales
  • Chief Data Officer
  • Engineering - Executive
  • Digital Forensics Engineering
  • Information / Cyber Security - Executive
  • Procurement

Workflow

A day in the workflow.

Starts day by checking failed DAGs and freshness alerts in Apache Airflow, Monte Carlo, and Slack; reviews Jira tickets and Confluence specs, then opens VS Code to edit SQL, Python, and dbt models against Snowflake or BigQuery; spends late morning validating joins, schema changes, and row counts with dbt Cloud, GitHub pull requests, and warehouse query history; joins a stakeholder sync in Zoom to reconcile metric definitions with product, finance, or sales leaders while updating the semantic notes in Confluence; uses Power BI, Tableau, or Looker after lunch to refresh dashboards and investigate ad hoc questions; closes by merging reviewed code in GitHub, watching Airflow runs, posting status in Slack, and logging unresolved data-quality risks in Jira

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