Lead Analytics Engineer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In Boston and certified as a Great Place To Work®, Forward is investing in its employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way. The Analytics Engineering team at Forward plays a central role in our Data ecosystem, partnering with technical and business stakeholders to convert raw data into trusted, AI-ready insights. Our team builds and optimizes data infrastructure, designs the data models and semantic layer that power Forward's source of truth, and develops the pipelines that fuel business intelligence, advanced analytics, predictive modeling, and the next generation of AI-driven experiences at the company. As a Lead Analytics Engineer, you will be the senior technical voice on the team - setting architectural direction, owning our most complex and cross-cutting initiatives, and raising the bar for everyone around you. You'll partner closely with the Manager of Analytics Engineering to drive Forward's data centralization vision, architect the semantic layer that serves as the company's single source of truth, and build the AI-...