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People Analytics Data Architect Datadog

The People Analytics Team at Datadog uses data to help our growing organization make better people decisions. As an Analytics Engineer, youll sit at the intersection of data modeling and stakeholder enablement, transforming raw people data into analyticsready datasets, governed marts, and selfserve dashboards. Youll organize our employee data, ensuring that leaders and teams can easily understand and use information about our people.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data models using analytics tools (e.g., dbt, Snowflake) that capture core people concepts (employee, org, movement, recruiting funnel, performance history).
• Partner with our central analytics tooling and HR Systems teams to build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines for various HR data sources (e.g., Workday, Greenhouse, Docebo).
• Define and maintain a metrics layer to power dashboards and analytics in our dashboarding tools (e.g., Metabase, Tableau).
• Ensure quality, integrity, and reliability across all data assets and catalogs through testing, data governance, and monitoring.
• Design and implement security model and access controls for sensitive people data, balancing privacy and information needs using row and columnlevel security.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or similar roles with a focus on HR data.
• Advanced SQL skills and proficiency in building data models (dbt); comfortable with dimensional and eventbased modeling.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery) and ingestion/orchestration tools (e.g., Airbyte, Airflow).
• Understanding of people systems (HRIS, ATS, LMS) and metrics used in people analytics.
• Experience working with BI and dashboarding tools such as Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc.
• Strong stakeholder management skills to translate people data needs into durable solutions.
• Ability to maintain privacy, maturity and discretion while handling sensitive people data.

Benefits and Growth

• Bestinbreed onboarding.
• Generous global benefits.
• Intradepartmental mentor and buddy program for inhouse networking.
• Newhire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing.
• Inclusive company culture with Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks.

Benefits and growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of bestinclass, comprehensive, and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is: $80,000$115,000 USD.

Equal Opportunity

Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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