About this role
Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.
The Enterprise Data Solutions (EDS) team at Toast is on a mission to deliver a trusted, scalable, and governed data foundation that empowers every team at Toast to make decisions with speed and confidence. As Toast scales and AI becomes central to its product and operational strategy, EDS serves as the engine behind that ambition, building the data infrastructure, governance frameworks, and data products that every business function depends on.
The Analytics Engineer will play an integral role on our Enterprise Data Solutions (EDS) team. This person will have the chance to build and support our core Analytics layer in Toast’s enterprise data warehouse and define a scalable data architecture that enables federated analytics teams across all enterprise data domains. The ideal candidate has high standards for their work, and for that of their peers. They should demonstrate a practical expertise in building enterprise data solutions at scale, identifying opportunities to improve user experience, and pushing the envelope of data modeling. We are looking for a motivated, energetic candidate with experience creatively solving data complexities of various sizes and levels of cleanliness - with the ultimate goal of enabling analytics engineers, data engineers, analysts, product managers, and peers throughout Toast to make data-informed decisions.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
• Collaborate with domain teams to implement a hub & spoke data architecture
• Develop the core Analytics layer in our data warehouse that serves as the hub, defining complex business logic in SQL and supplying relevant business context
• Build an AI-ready semantic layer that is extendable across business domains
• Partner with business stakeholders and our product team to understand their data analytics needs, and ensure those needs are met by our Analytics layer
• Work closely with the data engineering team to ensure scalability across the platform
• Provide technical mentorship and leadership to team members
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
• 6+ years experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, and/or Data Engineering roles.
• 4+ years experience with developing data modeling strategies.
• 3+ years experience developing in dbt.
• Highly proficient in SQL. You can interpret and optimize queries, for performance, written by other analysts and engineers.
• Thrive in a fast-paced work environment and comfortable operating under ambiguity. You are up to the challenge of designing standards and best practices from the ground up, and love collaborating with colleagues to solve complex problems.
• Bachelor's degree in an advanced quantitative field (or equivalent experience); such as mathematics, economics/finance, computer science, or physic