Sr. BI Engineer

Posted:
2/25/2026, 4:27:49 AM

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Data & Analytics

The Amherst Group of companies comprise of leading real estate investment and advisory firms with a mission to transform the way real estate is owned, financed and managed.  Amherst leverages its proprietary data, analytics, technology, and decades of experience to seek solutions for a fragmented, slow-to-evolve real estate ecosystem and to materially improve the experience for residents, buyers, sellers, communities, and investors.  Today Amherst has over 1000 employees and $14.1 billion in assets under management.

Over the past decade, Amherst has scaled its platform to become one of the largest operators of single-family assets and has acquired, renovated, and leased more than 46,000 homes across 32 markets in the U.S.  The firm delivers customized, stabilized cash-flowing portfolios of assets to its investors, wrapped in all the ongoing services required to manage, own, and finance the asset including property management, portfolio management, and a full capital markets team.  In addition to its single-family rental platform, Amherst’s debt business pursues two distinct credit strategies in mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate lending.  Over its 25-year history, Amherst has developed a deep bench of research and technology talent, and leverages data and analytics at every stage in the asset lifecycle to improve operations and preserve long-term value for our investors and the more than 188,000 residents the firm has served.

Key Responsibilities 

  • Design, develop, and maintain dashboards and analytical models used by operational and executive teams. 

  • Translate business requirements into well-defined metrics, standardized KPIs, and scalable data structures. 

  • Develop, optimize, and tune complex SQL queries across large datasets. 

  • Ensure data quality, consistency, and integrity across reports and analytical outputs. 

  • Partner with Data Engineering to improve data models, pipelines, and overall warehouse architecture. 

  • Contribute to the design and enhancement of data marts and semantic layers. 

  • Analyze trends, identify anomalies, and provide actionable insights to stakeholders. 

  • Document metric definitions, business logic, and data models to ensure transparency and governance. 

  • Improve dashboard performance and optimize query execution times. 

Job Requirements 

Minimum Requirements:  

  • 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, or related roles. 

  • Advanced SQL proficiency (complex joins, window functions, aggregations, query tuning). 

  • Experience working with enterprise Data Warehouses (SQL Server, Databricks, Snowflake or similar). 

  • Experience with BI visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI, or similar). 

  • Experience working with operational performance metrics (SLAs, efficiency, cost analysis, etc.). 

  • Ability to work with large datasets and optimize performance. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Familiarity with ETL processes and data pipelines. 

  • Strong understanding of dimensional modeling (star schema, fact/dimension design, SCD concepts). 

Functional and Behavioral Skills 

Functional Skills: 

  • Advanced SQL and query performance optimization. 

  • Dimensional data modeling (star schema, SCD, fact/dimension design). 

  • Dashboard design and data visualization best practices. 

  • Data warehouse architecture fundamentals. 

  • KPI definition, metric standardization, and business logic documentation. 

Behavioral Skills: 

  • Strong analytical and structured thinking. 

  • Deep understanding of operational processes and performance metrics. 

  • Ability to challenge and refine metric definitions constructively. 

  • High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy. 

  • Self-driven and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment. 

  • Clear and effective communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

Our full-time employee benefits include:

  • A competitive and comprehensive benefits package.