Analytics Engineer

About the role

The Financial Times is looking for an Analytics Engineer in Sofia to bridge data engineering and data analytics. The role maintains and develops scalable data models and solutions that support finance, B2B and B2C teams, using modern data stack technologies such as dbt, supporting cloud migration, ensuring data quality and keeping analytical data pipelines performant.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to design and implement data models and BI solutions.
• Build, test and maintain data transformations using dbt.
• Apply software engineering best practices for data, including version control, CI/CD and automated testing.
• Support day-to-day tasks for the data and BI infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain scalable, documented data pipelines.
• Identify and resolve issues in ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience in analytics engineering, BI or data engineering.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem solving, attention to detail and adaptability to fast-paced environments.
• Effective communication and teamwork across departments.

Required skills

• SQL, including complex queries and performance tuning.
• Hands-on dbt experience.
• Data migration knowledge for AWS (Redshift) or GCP (BigQuery).
• Database design, Git/GitHub, CI/CD and ETL/ELT tools such as Airflow.

What we offer

• Annual bonus scheme and 25 days of paid leave.
• Employee assistance program, life insurance and enhanced parental leave.
• Food allowance, multisport card and training budget.
• Hybrid model with 50% onsite work, subject to role requirements.