Analytics Project Lead, Financial Services
$125,000–$150,000 year
Remote · Chicago, Illinois, United States or Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Analytics Project Lead is a business-facing technical leader partnering with client accounts and internal teams to identify, design, and deliver data, analytics, automation, and AI-driven solutions. Responsibilities include understanding workflows and strategic objectives, translating problems into well-defined solution concepts, designing end-to-end data/analytics solutions, rapidly prototyping for feedback, developing web-based analytics tools, leveraging AI-assisted development, leading solution demos and data storytelling, maintaining a pipeline of solution ideas, and collaborating with data engineers, architects, product managers, and developers to scale prototypes into production. Required experience includes 7+ years across solution architecture, analytics/data engineering, or full-stack development, strong stakeholder engagement, cloud data platforms, SQL/Python, API integration with front ends, AI-assisted tooling, and domain experience in financial services, real estate, or related analytics. This is a remote position with a preference for Chicago, NY, or Charlotte; no visa sponsorship is available; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years experience in solution architecture/analytics engineering/data engineering/full-stack platform development
- experience with business stakeholders or client accounts to define problems and shape technical solutions
- SQL and Python proficiency; experience with P-Spark and ETL/ELT frameworks
- experience building analytics tools and data-driven applications integrating APIs with web front ends (e.g., React)
- experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric
- ability to demo solutions and communicate value to diverse audiences
- domain experience in financial services, real estate, or operational performance analytics
- authorizations to work in US without sponsorship
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