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Data Engineer, People Analytics (2 year LTE)

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
paid time off
United States, Washington, Seattle
500 5th Avenue North (Show on map)
Apr 11, 2025
The Foundation We are the largest nonprofitfighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally. The Team In the People function, we are inspired by our mission "All Lives Have Equal Value" and are compelled by the opportunity to make an impact. Along with our partners, we take on complex challenges, continually test new approaches, and embrace change where it will facilitate the best outcome. We are on a mission to evolve how we work by pushing for greater transparency so people have access to information they need to make decisions, creating energy to support a thriving workforce, and showing respect so everyone can bring their best, authentic self to work every day. Your Role You are responsible for helping to craft and implement analytics-driven solutions for the foundation's most pressing human capital priorities. You support the foundation's organizational and team efficiency work, headcount planning and management, and workforce analytics. You deliver the output of multivariate cross-purpose analyses into useful insights that enable the foundation to improve its processes and decision-making strategies. You craft, build, and maintain HR's workforce data pipeline and all business intelligence products that leverage workforce data. You will serve as a key partner and consultant to leadership within HR, Operations and with cross-foundation leadership. What You'll Do Design, document, implement and maintain business intelligence products in support of cross-functional workforce analytics initiatives including headcount management, operations, HR, and internal communications reporting needs. Partner with analytics, HRIS, and business teams to maintain and improve the data models that feed business intelligence tools and other workforce data and reporting needs across the organization. Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and build out new API integrations to support ongoing data, analysis and reporting needs. Perform investigation and analysis required to troubleshoot data and system related issues and assists in the resolution of those issues. Use data and analysis methodologies to address business questions or problems and uncover insights that support foundation leaders in making strategic, data-informed decisions. Provide ad hoc data, analysis, and reporting (data visualization) results in support of foundation programs, policies or initiatives. Present resulting analysis, context and key insights to senior leaders. Build technical documents and white papers summarizing analytics research projects, including executive summaries for presentation to senior and executive leadership. Partner with IT and Director of People Data & Technology to develop strategy for long term data platform architecture. Support inclusive culture through modeling behaviors and actions; call out issues in a timely fashion to appropriate partners. Your Experience A Bachelor's degree or equivalent proven experience, preferably in quantitative social or physical science, statistics, data analytics, mathematics, or computer science. 5+ years of experience in people analytics or other relevant sector with exposure to people/HR data or other critical data types Familiarity with descriptive and basic inferential statistics to understand usage behaviors and generate and test hypotheses. Intermediate experience and proficiency in a variety of analytical platforms, software languages, and statistical tools: Microsoft Office, data warehouse and management tools (e.g. Azure, SQL, AWS, Redshift), data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau), data preparation and manipulation tools (e.g. MS Fabric, Alteryx, Python, Databricks), enterprise survey platform administration and utilization (e.g. Qualtrics, UKG, Culture Amp, Glint), and multivariate statistical platforms and/or languages (R, SAS, Stata, SPSS). Intermediate experience in people analytics or another relevant sector with exposure to human resources data or other sensitive data types. Experience using appropriate statistical techniques to mitigate bias, interpret statistical significance, and establish sufficient sample size. Experience applying and integrating descriptive and basic predictive analyses to develop strategic and operational insights for human resources and organization-wide decision-making. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience distilling and communicating sophisticated data analyses and insights to large and small, technical and non-technical, audiences. Ability to navigate ambiguity, apply prudent judgment, and implement proactively with multiple partners across various levels of the organization. Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship. #LI-SC2 The salary range for this role is $127,400 to $191,200 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $138,900 to $208,300 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process. Hiring Requirements* As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Candidate Accommodations If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request here. Inclusion Statement We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and approaches - and we support this diversity through all our employment practices. All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.