Analytics Engineer - Houston, TX - Empower Pharmacy

Position Summary:

The Analytics Engineer plays a key role in shaping data-driven decision-making at Empower Pharmacy by developing and maintaining advanced business intelligence (BI) solutions. This position supports our values of service, quality, and innovation by creating powerful data visualizations, reports, and dashboards that drive business insights across various departments, including sales, clinical trials, manufacturing, and supply chain. The Analytics Engineer ensures that critical data is not only accessible but also structured in a way that enhances operational efficiency and strategic decision-making.

 

This role involves designing data structures and relationships, building custom calculations, and integrating multiple data sources into cohesive Power BI reports. By working closely with stakeholders, the Analytics Engineer translates complex business requirements into actionable data models, helping various teams—including pharmacy operations, finance, and Human Resources—leverage real-time insights to improve outcomes. Additionally, this role plays a significant part in optimizing BI systems and addressing data quality issues to ensure reliability and accuracy.

 

As a key contributor to Empower’s data strategy, the Analytics Engineer is responsible for evolving the company’s data platforms, particularly Snowflake, and providing technical expertise for troubleshooting and training. This role also supports the development of enterprise-wide dashboards and reports, enabling both high-level decision-making and detailed operational analyses.

 

At Empower, we are dedicated to producing innovative medications that help people live healthier, happier lives. If you have a passion for data-driven insights, collaboration, and technology innovation, we invite you to join our mission to expand access to quality, affordable medications by applying for the Analytics Engineer role today.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops Power BI reports and dashboards to visualize and analyze pharmaceutical data from various sources, including sales, clinical trials, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Establishes data structure setup, for developing BI reports, and for providing insights to improve decision-making.
• Creates relationships between data and develops tabular and other multidimensional data models in collaboration with team data engineers.
• Creates customized charts and custom calculations as required to address business stakeholder's complex analytical requirements.
• Designs business analysis and data recording systems for use in the reporting processes with special emphasis on Snowflake and PowerBI.
• Examines existing reports to locate and resolve issues. These reports consist of key performance indicators (KPIs), daily pharmacy operational dashboards, financial, and production quality analysis while addressing data quality issues emanating from end-to-end data integrations and analytics.
• Makes essential technical and strategic changes to improve present business intelligence systems.
• Works closely with business stakeholders to understand their data analysis needs and translates requirements into effective Power BI solutions.
• Develops and updates technical documentation for providing end-to-end data cataloging and data lineage while augmenting with user-friendly business definitions.
• Collaborates with teams to integrate systems across to evolve single and consistent data definitions(metrics/KPIs). This effort involves data team’s collaboration (not limited to) with pharmacy operations (Pharmacy Management Systems), Enterprise Resource Planning, Finance, and HR.
• Designs and implements data models, transformations, and calculations within Power BI to ensure accurate and reliable reporting.
• Provides technical expertise and support to end-users for troubleshooting, training, and adoption of Power BI and self-service solutions.
• Develops Enterprise dashboards and reports such as KPIs, Operational dashboards, financial metrics for both enterprise level decision making and departmental deed-dives.
• Coordinates development of Business Intelligence products with cloud data team and departments such as pharmacy operations, finance, quality, and HR to enable self-serve analytics.
• Optimizes Power BI performance and usability by implementing best practices for data visualization, navigation, and interactivity.
• Maintains data analytics platforms such as Enterprise Data Warehouse on Snowflake.
• Conducts troubleshooting on BI models.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday and frequently use their hands and fingers to handle or feel to access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. This is primarily a remote position. The employee is regularly required to attend video conference meetings in surroundings conducive to clear communication in a non-distracting way. The company will, from time to time, have the employee travel to meet with business stakeholders, or attend learning events and conferences. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop or kneel.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Familiar with data modeling best practices.
• Strong Structured Query Language and Excel skills.
• Strong Python programming skills required.
• Strong writing and documentation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.

Key Competencies

• Customer Focus: Ability to build strong customer relationships and deliver customer centric solutions.
• Optimizes Work Processes: Know the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborates: Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Resourcefulness: Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quality, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments and objectives.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match shifting demands of different situations.
• Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

 

Values

• People: Our people define who we are as a company, and we believe that understanding and addressing the needs of our team, clients, and community is fundamental to fostering a culture of support and growth.
• Quality: Quality stands at the core of our mission, reflecting our commitment to excellence in every medication we produce.
• Service: We are here to serve others. Every interaction with our patients, providers, employees and other stakeholders comes from a place of service.
• Innovation: By continuously exploring new methodologies and embracing technology, we ensure that every solution we offer is at the forefront of pharmaceutical care.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or University.
• Minimum of 3 years of related experience with PowerBI or other related dashboard systems such as Looker, Tableau, Superset, or Dash.
• Experience Power BI, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) Queries, and associated supportive tooling (DAX Studio, DBeaver, etc.) required.
• Experience with Extract, Transform, Load or data transformation tools is required. Examples are Apache Hop, Alteryx, and Data Build Tool.

Benefits:

• No-Cost Medication: Get your prescribed compounded medications at no cost, ensuring your health without the financial burden.
• Onsite Health & Wellness – IV Therapy Drips: Rejuvenate with complimentary onsite IV Therapy drips, enhancing your well-being and energy levels.
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Options: Choose from three medical plans tailored to your needs, plus options for dental and vision coverage for you and your family.
• Telehealth visits: Access board-certified Doctors anytime, anywhere for you and your family.
• Paid & Volunteer Time Off: Enjoy paid time off for personal pursuits and contribute to causes you care about with volunteer time off.
• Paid Holidays (8 scheduled; 2 floating): Celebrate with eight scheduled holidays and two floating holidays, giving you flexibility and time for personal traditions.
• Life & AD&D Coverage: Secure your and your family's financial future with life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance.
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account): Manage healthcare expenses smartly with pre-tax dollars in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• 401K Dollar-for-Dollar Up to 4%: Invest in your future with our 401K plan, featuring a dollar-for-dollar match up to 4%.
• Company Paid Long-Term Disability: Provided at no cost, which replaces 60% of your income if you become disabled for a long period of time.
• Flexible Schedules: Balance work and life seamlessly with our flexible scheduling options.
• Rewards & Recognition Program: Your hard work doesn't go unnoticed – enjoy rewards and recognition beyond your paycheck.

 

Additional Voluntary Benefits

• Accident Insurance: Pays a lump sum benefit to help cover expenses following an accidental injury.
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance: Enhance your peace of mind with supplemental hospital insurance for unexpected stays.
• Critical Illness: Protect your finances from the expenses of a serious health issue.
• Short-Term Disability: Protect your income during illness or injury with short-term disability coverage.
• Supplemental Life & AD&D: Add an extra layer of financial protection for you and your loved ones with supplemental life and AD&D coverage.
• Legal Services: Access professional legal assistance to address concerns confidently.
• Identity Theft Protection: Safeguard your identity and finances with our identity theft protection benefit.
• Pet Insurance: Care for your furry family members with our pet insurance coverage.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling and support services for a holistic approach to your well-being.