Senior Analytics Engineer - Finance

About the role

Shield AI, a venture-backed defense-tech company, is looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to lead the design and delivery of trusted data products for Corporate FP&A, Accounting, Program Finance, GTM and Strategic Finance. This senior individual contributor role combines hands-on engineering with cross-functional influence and mentorship, turning business priorities into AI-enabled decision support on the Databricks platform.

Key responsibilities

• Shape the analytics roadmap with Finance and GTM leaders, prioritizing high-impact products and resolving competing requirements.
• Build governed datasets and semantic models supporting reporting, planning, scenario analysis and strategic decisions.
• Set modeling and metric standards across domains, judging architecture, quality and maintainability.
• Develop conversational analytics and AI-enabled workflows, including Databricks Genie, grounded in trusted business context.
• Use AI coding assistants to speed delivery while keeping rigorous validation and quality.
• Own business-facing reconciliation and acceptance, partnering with data engineering on reliable delivery.
• Mentor engineers and Finance partners and strengthen technical practices and self-service capabilities.

Required profile

• Substantial experience in analytics engineering, BI engineering or financial data modeling, with advanced SQL and a record of delivering production data products.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional work from problem definition through adoption.
• Sound architectural judgment, disciplined development practices and experience mentoring others and influencing senior stakeholders.

Required skills

• Advanced SQL and proficiency with AI coding assistants.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted analytics, ideally Databricks Genie; Snowflake Cortex or comparable experience is welcome.
• Preferred: Databricks, Python, semantic layers, AI application development, and experience supporting FP&A, GTM, Strategic Finance, Accounting or Program Finance.