Affirm · 2 days ago
Analytics Lead, Full Stack
Raleigh, NC
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $230K/yr
5+ years expAffirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, and they are seeking a highly skilled and action-oriented Analytics Lead to join their People Analytics organization. The role involves driving the evolution of data infrastructure, modeling, and reporting capabilities to support key talent programs across the company.
Financial ServicesFinTechLendingPayments
No H1B
Responsibilities
Design and deliver relational and non-relational database models, data pipelines, reporting, and visualization solutions while supporting all phases of the analytics development life cycle (ADLC), including requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and deployment
Develop, maintain, and scale robust ETL/ELT pipelines across HR data sources (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse Recruiting, internal tools such as Arbor), ensuring reliability, performance, and extensibility
Architect and implement scalable data models optimized for analytical querying and long-term maintainability
Ensure data quality, integrity, and reliability across all data assets, introducing automation and best practices for monitoring and validation
Collaborate with People Analytics stakeholders to translate requirements into sound technical solutions and influence longer-term data architecture decisions
Manage and optimize cloud data warehouse infrastructure (e.g., Snowflake), including performance tuning, cost management, and secure access patterns
Leverage AI and LLMs to automate data quality checks, enhance metadata management, and extract insights from unstructured HR data
Stay current on technology best practices and advocate for engineering excellence across the People Analytics team
Own and manage data governance, security, privacy, and retention standards across all People Analytics systems
Qualification
Required
5+ years and expertise with dbt (Data Build Tool), SQL and Python required
Experience writing clean, computationally efficient code involving ETL processes and data manipulation via dbt, SQL, and Python
Demonstrated ability to design and build efficient, analytics-ready data models in dbt, transforming raw or unstructured data into well-defined marts
Comfort with production level IDEs (e.g., Cursor, Visual Studio) and Version Control (e.g., git, specifically GitHub)
Experience using standard Python analysis packages (e.g., Pandas, NumPy)
Experience with Snowflake or other cloud data warehouse
Experience with Sigma or other modern BI platform
Experience with Fivetran or similar integration platform for integrating structured, unstructured, or unclear data formats
Experience with Airflow or other orchestration platform
Strong sense of ownership, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to think creatively and critically in a dynamic, fast-paced, and ambiguous environment
Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership, influence cross-functional partners, and mentor other team members
Excellent communication skills and comfort translating technical topics for non-technical audiences
Preferred
Leveraging LLMs for data transformation or analysis; MLOps
Data lakes and/or Iceberg table format
Custom data application development using Python or similar language (i.e. Streamlit dashboards, Slackbots)
Benefits
Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
Company
Affirm
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.57BKey Investors
New York Life InsuranceSixth StreetPGIM Fixed Income
2025-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2024-12-17Post Ipo Debt· $800M
2024-12-13Post Ipo Debt· $4B
Leadership Team
Max Levchin
Founder & CEO
Robert O'Hare
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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