Sr. Consultant, Data & Analytics

At Fearless, the Senior Consultant is an expert in data analysis, engineering, and science. This rolewill possess the necessary skills at an advanced level of proficiency to drive organizational transformation by architecting scalable data platforms, building advanced machine learning solutions, and mentoring customers and teams to become data-driven organizations. The role involves working with executives, project teams, and internal leaders across departments to identify opportunities where data can accelerate missions, create efficiencies, and deliver technical excellence.

Areas of Domain Expertise & Technology Awareness:

More Information included in Skill Pathing Documentation

Required Level of Proficiency:

• Advanced Application: You can perform the actions associated with a skill without assistance. You are recognized within your immediate organization as "a person to ask" when difficult questions regarding required skills arise.

Fearless Impact:

• Fosters collaboration with cross functional teams by taking the initiative and driving conversations
• Coach, mentor, and develop peers that elevate team capability and technical expertise using clear and persuasive communication of engineering solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
• Drive accountability and delivery by ensuring project objectives are not only met on time but aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards of excellence. Anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions to keep initiatives on track.
• Take ownership of risk management by monitoring deliverables across the team, identifying issues early, and coaching teammates on mitigation strategies while keeping leadership informed.
• Shape client engagement and intelligence-gathering efforts by actively cultivating relationships with stakeholders, synthesizing insights across the client organization and partner ecosystem, and providing Fearless leaders with actionable recommendations that inform strategy and strengthen delivery outcomes.

Fearless Customer Impact:

• Deliver expected outcomes relative to high quality code and maintainable systems
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include engineering best practices through new tools, frameworks and methodologies
• Lead and align stakeholders with product and project goals that advance customer satisfaction as well as Fearless' objectives, strategy, and mission
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise

The Impact You Will Create:

This role as a Data Engineer will support a program that provides secure authentication and identity verification, allowing individuals to use a single, trusted account to access multiple federal services. The service supports more than 60 million users and processes over 160 million sign-ins annually across 30+ agencies and 300+ applications.

Your Responsibilities in This Role:

• Provide comprehensive data analytics support to advance strategic goals-strengthening service reliability, enhancing performance, and identifying opportunities for product improvement
• Develop foundational analytics capabilities that deliver insights into product usage, operational effectiveness, and user experience.
• Leverage modern analytics practices while ensuring strong data privacy and security protections.
• Enable internal capacity-building, collaborating with stakeholders, and applying data-driven methods to optimize processes across key value streams: Business, Performance, Equity, Privacy, Anti-Fraud, and Security.
• Delivers data visualization, analysis, and automation solutions that drive informed decision-making and advance the mission of the program.

Skills and Qualifications We Require at Fearless:

At Fearless, we seek candidates who blend technical know-how with sharp problem-solving and advisory skills to drive real impact in the communities we serve. Here are the key qualifications for this role.

Fearless Skills and Competencies:

• Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions.
• Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole.
• Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks.
• Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery.
• Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations.
• Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making.
• Managing Priorities & Client Alignment: Skillfully negotiates and manages conflicting priorities to strategically align decisions, enhancing service delivery and client satisfaction.

Additional Project Requirements:

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain Public Trust
• Must have at least 7 years experience
• Bachelor's Degree Required

Technical Requirements

• AWS Data Storage & Warehousing
• Amazon Redshift (core): schema design, sort/dist keys, workload management, performance tuning
• Amazon S3: data lake design, partitioning, lifecycle policies, object storage formats (Parquet, ORC)
• AWS Glue Data Catalog: metadata, tables, crawlers, schema management
• Data Modeling & Architecture
• Data warehouse/lakehouse best practices
• Designing scalable batch and real-time pipelines
• ETL / ELT Development
• AWS Glue (PySpark ETL scripts, jobs, crawlers)
• AWS Lambda (serverless transformations, orchestration helpers)
• dbt on Redshift (ELT modeling and testing)
• Experience building incremental pipelines
• Data validation and quality checks
• Data Orchestration & Workflow Automation
• AWS Step Functions
• AWS Glue Workflows
• Big Data Compute & Processing
• PySpark for large-scale distributed transformations
• Experience tuning Spark jobs (partitioning, caching, shuffle optimization)
• Security, Governance & Compliance
• IAM (roles, policies, least privilege)
• VPC networking basics Data governance frameworks (cataloging, tagging, lineage)
• Implementing data retention and lifecycle policies
• Monitoring, Logging & Observability
• CloudWatch metrics, logs, dashboards
• AWS Glue job monitoring
• Redshift performance tuning tools (Query Monitor, Workload Manager)
• Detecting pipeline failures and SLA breaches 9. DevOps & DataOps Practices
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CloudFormation)
• CI/CD for data pipelines and dbt models
• Version control and code reviews (Git)
• Automated testing of transformations and models
• Programming & Querying
• Advanced SQL (window functions, CTEs, optimization for Redshift)
• Python (Lambda functions, ETL utilities)

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, email, and in-person, requiring clear speech, listening, and written communication skills.
• Ability to move within an office environment, including reaching for files, using office equipment, and occasional light lifting (up to 10 pounds).

Life at Fearless

We're a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. At Fearless, we combine technology, people, and organizational development to solve meaningful problems. Through iterative development, we deliver smart, user-friendly solutions that make tech work better-for everyone.

But great tech is just part of the story. What really makes us Fearless is our Purple Culture.

What Makes Us Purple?

Being Purple means you:

• Are valued as a whole person-not just a job title
• Get matched with work that plays to your strengths and passions
• Are supported by coaches, not micromanagers
• Have the autonomy and clarity to make decisions and drive impact
• Join a community that celebrates equity, curiosity, and innovation
• Do work that matters-every day

We believe in flexibility, growth, and balance. Our benefits and culture are designed to support you in doing your best work-while making space for what matters to you outside of it.

We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Fearless, we're building a workplace that welcomes and respects everyone-across race, gender, age, religion, identity, background, and ability.

Compensation at Fearless

Fearless is committed to providing a competitive compensation package that will meet your current and future needs. Our philosophy is aimed at rewarding team member contributions, supporting long-term financial growth and security, and overall well-being.

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless - regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or willingness/ability to negotiate - is consistently paid fairly based on alignment to the needs and requirements of the role.

The salary range for this position is:

Minimum Salary: $114,844

Salary Midpoint: $149,299

Maximum Salary: $183,752

Hiring Range for Role: $114,844 - $140,000

*For part-time roles, the salary will be pro-rated based on the full-time equivalent salary ranges listed above.

Benefits at Fearless

At Fearless, we take care of our team-because when you're supported, you can do your best work. We offer a flexible, family-friendly environment with benefits designed to support your health, growth, and life outside of work.

For Full-Time Team Members (Starting Day One):

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances
• Referral bonus: $6K-$12K for each successful referral
• Pet insurance & discount plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage

Part-Time & Interns:

• 8.75 days of safe & sick leave annually
• Eligible for our 401(k) plan with employer contributions

Reasonable Accommodations

Fearless is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact the Human Resources Department at hr@fearless.tech.

So, What's Next?

We've refined our hiring approach to make sure every team member is a great fit for Fearless-and that we're a great fit for you, too. If there's alignment, we'll reach out to kick off the interview process. Depending on the role or project, your experience may vary slightly, but it typically includes:

Introductory Interview

You'll connect with a recruiter to:

• Build rapport and get to know each other
• Review your experience and skills
• Talk through salary expectations and role details
• Set expectations for the rest of the process

Skills + Business Fit Interview

This is where we dig deeper to:

• Review findings from any technical assessments
• Walk through situational and values-based questions
• Explore how your approach aligns with Fearless culture and project needs

Some roles may also include customer interviews based on specific project requirements in addition to background check and security clearance requirements.