Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mercury Insurance is a company dedicated to helping people manage risk and overcome unexpected events. They are seeking an Analytics Engineer II to build and scale the enterprise metrics store, enabling insights across various business functions such as underwriting and sales. This role involves data modeling, analytics engineering, and collaboration with product and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality data governance and metric definitions.
Responsibilities
- Build and scale the metric layer
- Develop and maintain dbt models
- Contribute to semantic layer definitions (metrics, dimensions, relationships)
- Ensure consistency and correctness of: key business metrics o metric hierarchies (metric pyramid)
- Implement analytical logic (root cause analysis & metric insights)
- Build root cause analysis workflows:
- Implement baseline comparisons , companion metric analysis
- Translate business questions into scalable analytical patterns
- Enable metric consumption across tools
- Support metric usage in different BI or analytical tools
- Build reusable logic that avoids duplication across tools
- Prepare for future API-based metric serving layer
- Partner with business and product stakeholders
- Work closely with sales, product, underwriting, claims, experience and other business teams, Translate ambiguous questions into:
- Structured metrics
- Actionable insights
- Improve data quality and governance
- Define and enforce:
- Metric definitions
- Dimension standards
- Data contracts
- Debug issues across:
- Upstream pipelines
- Semantic layer
- Analytical outputs
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer science, Statistics or similar
- 3–5 years of analytics engineering or similar analytical role experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks proficiency: models, tests, incremental materialization, Jinja macros
- Advanced SQL on a columnar warehouse (Redshift, Snowflake, or BigQuery)
- Python for data transformation and analysis (pandas, basic scripting)
- Comfort working with YAML-based configuration and version-controlled analytics workflows
- Clear written and verbal communication—able to explain metric definitions and data lineage to non-technical stakeholders
- P&C insurance domain experience
- Experience with: Cohort analysis
- Funnel metrics
- Performance analysis
- Familiarity with MetricFlow specifically and the dbt Semantic Layer
- Exposure to Retool or similar low-code tools for operational write-back workflows
- FastAPI or similar Python API frameworks (Flask, Django REST) for serving data products as services
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
- Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
- Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Engaging work environment
- Promotional opportunities
- Education assistance
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
Company Overview
Mercury Insurance has offered quality insurance for personal auto insurance to homeowners insurance to mechanical breakdown protection. It was founded in 1962, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.mercuryinsurance.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Mercury Insurance has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 22 in 2025, 23 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 15 in 2022, 8 in 2021, 13 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.