Dear Hiring Manager,
The phrase I hear most before I join a team is, which number is the real one, and the work I do is making sure there is only one. At Lattice Commerce I turned a maze of conflicting revenue definitions into a tested, documented metrics layer the whole company agreed on. Building the trusted middle layer between raw data and decisions is what I would bring to your team.
Analytics engineering sits between data engineering and analysis, and that bridge is exactly where I like to work. I model raw tables into clean, tested datasets using tools like dbt, I define metrics once so finance and marketing stop arguing about whose number is right, and I document models so analysts can self serve without messaging me. I bring software engineering habits, namely version control, testing and review, to a layer that used to live in untracked SQL.
At Lattice Commerce I rebuilt our reporting on a properly modelled, tested transformation layer with a single canonical definition of revenue and active users. By replacing twelve conflicting dashboard queries with one governed metrics layer, I cut the time analysts spent reconciling numbers by roughly 70 percent and ended a long running disagreement between finance and growth. Data trust scores in our internal survey rose noticeably the following quarter.
Your advert mentions establishing a single source of truth for metrics, which is the problem I most enjoy solving. I would welcome a conversation about how I would model your core entities and win agreement across teams. Are you open to a short call?
Yours sincerely, Oliver Brandt