People Analytics Data Architect
at Datadog
Boston, New York, United States
The People Analytics Team at Datadog uses data to help our growing organization make better people decisions.
As an Analytics Engineer, you’ll sit at the intersection of data modeling and stakeholder enablement, transforming raw people data into analytics-ready datasets, governed marts, and self-serve dashboards. You’ll organize our employee data, ensuring that leaders and teams at Datadog can easily understand and use information about our people.
At Datadog, we place value in our office culture—the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain data models using analytics tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake) that capture core people concepts (e.g., employee, org, movement, recruiting funnel, performance history)
- Partner with our central analytics tooling and HR Systems teams to build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines for various HR data sources (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse, Docebo)
- Define and maintain a metrics layer to power dashboards and analytics in our dashboarding tools (e.g., Metabase, Tableau)
- Ensure quality, integrity, and reliability across all data assets and catalogs through testing, data governance, and monitoring
- Design and implement security model and access controls for sensitive people data, balancing privacy and the need for information using row and column-level security
Who You Are
- 3+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or similar roles with a focus on HR data
- Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in building data models (dbt); comfortable with dimensional and event-based modeling
- Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) as well as ingestion and orchestration tools (e.g., Airbyte, Airflow)
- Understanding of people systems (HRIS, ATS, LMS) and metrics used in people analytics
- Experience working with BI and dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc.
- Strong stakeholder manager who can translate people data needs into durable solutions
- Ability to maintain privacy, maturity and discretion while handling sensitive people data
Benefits and Growth:
- Best-in-breed onboarding
- Generous global benefits
- Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks
Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
About Datadog:
Datadog (NASDAQ: DDOG) is a global SaaS business, delivering a rare combination of growth and profitability. We are on a mission to break down silos and solve complexity in the cloud age by enabling digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stacks. Built by engineers, for engineers, Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries. Together, we champion professional development, diversity of thought, innovation, and work excellence to empower continuous growth. Join the pack and become part of a collaborative, pragmatic, and thoughtful people-first community where we solve tough problems, take smart risks, and celebrate one another. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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