Fractional Lead

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: airflow, big query, dbt, analytics

Budget: $125-$200/h

Hours per week: 10-20

Term: 3-6 months

Geographic Constraints: U.S. and Canada based candidates preferred

Timezone Constraints: 6 hours overlap with ET

Start Date: Immediate

Company Stage: Series A

Context:

We’re working with a company that has a subscription based mobile app with millions of users. They have a small analytics team of three.

The head of that team has an analytics / data science background and could use the help of engineering leader in the immediate term to understand some inconsistencies they’ve observed in the data being produced by their ETL pipelines.

In the medium term they’d like help improving their analytics infrastructure to support a series of new analytics-focused initiatives they’ll be undertaking in 2025.

We’re looking for someone with a data and analytics oriented engineering background who’s helped multiple other companies stand up or iterate their analytics infrastructure.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have an engineering background
  • You have exposure to ETL / data pipelines
  • You have exposure to ELT / dbt / analytics engineering
  • You have experience analyzing subscription data
  • You have 8+ years xp

If this role sounds interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you here.

Research shows that certain folks are less likely to apply for work when they don’t meet 100% of the outlined qualifications. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you. If not and you’re looking for contract work, feel free to reach out to us or take a look at our other roles. You can also view our privacy policy here.