Analytics Engineer – People Data

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval. 

We are looking for an Analytics Engineer with experience working with HR – People data, to manage and maintain our semantic layer and data pipelines, while ensuring data quality, integrity, and accuracy. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, data governance, and business stakeholder teams to advance our data and reporting solutions. You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies, as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions. Your work will directly influence workforce planning, talent strategy, and executive decision-making. 

To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical, with a strong intellectual curiosity and be comfortable solving ambiguous challenges. You must be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your stakeholders will not always know what is possible, so it is important that you ask effective questions to get clarity in addition to managing expectations on what you can deliver. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical and development skills, proactive communication skills, and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role. 

Responsibilities:  

• Contribute to the design of the ETL process, driving clean and actionable requirements, and translate business logic into reusable and governed data assets while working with our Talent Engineering teams. 
• Support, maintain, and enhance our existing HR Data Warehouse, ensuring it scales with evolving business needs and systems changes 
• Proven track record of developing enterprise-level data programs heavily focused on self-service and multi-persona management. 
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and data dictionaries for warehouse structures, transformations, and integrations. 
• Use SQL to extract, clean, and organize data from multiple HR systems, ensuring structured, accurate, and governed reporting, dashboards, and analytics products. 
• Influence and collaborate on the global strategy for People Reporting at the enterprise level and establish scalable solutions to support end users.  
• Bring critical thinking & problem-solving skills to a range of challenging problems.  
• Stay relevant in technology trends that might be used to resolve complex business problems. 
• Advocate for and implement best practices in data engineering, testing, and documentation. 

We are looking for an Analytics Engineer with experience working with HR – People data, to manage and maintain our semantic layer and data pipelines, while ensuring data quality, integrity, and accuracy. You will work cross-functionally with engineering, data governance, and business stakeholder teams to advance our data and reporting solutions. You will leverage our data to identify key insights and create operational efficiencies, as well as produce accurate and meaningful analysis to drive business decisions. Your work will directly influence workforce planning, talent strategy, and executive decision-making. 

To be successful in this role you need to be highly analytical, with a strong intellectual curiosity and be comfortable solving ambiguous challenges. You must be able to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. Your stakeholders will not always know what is possible, so it is important that you ask effective questions to get clarity in addition to managing expectations on what you can deliver. Exceptional attention to detail, strong analytical and development skills, proactive communication skills, and an ability to meet tight deadlines will be critical for success in this role. 

Responsibilities:  

• Contribute to the design of the ETL process, driving clean and actionable requirements, and translate business logic into reusable and governed data assets while working with our Talent Engineering teams. 
• Support, maintain, and enhance our existing HR Data Warehouse, ensuring it scales with evolving business needs and systems changes 
• Proven track record of developing enterprise-level data programs heavily focused on self-service and multi-persona management. 
• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation and data dictionaries for warehouse structures, transformations, and integrations. 
• Use SQL to extract, clean, and organize data from multiple HR systems, ensuring structured, accurate, and governed reporting, dashboards, and analytics products. 
• Influence and collaborate on the global strategy for People Reporting at the enterprise level and establish scalable solutions to support end users.  
• Bring critical thinking & problem-solving skills to a range of challenging problems.  
• Stay relevant in technology trends that might be used to resolve complex business problems. 
• Advocate for and implement best practices in data engineering, testing, and documentation.