Senior Data Analyst (Contract)

Senior Data Analyst — Contract (Remote, Brazil)

Santiago Consult is a UK-based data and AI consultancy. We build data platforms, pipelines and AI systems for ecommerce, marketplace and commerce businesses — and we're expanding our delivery capability in Brazil.

We're building a network of senior contract data analysts we can bring onto client projects as they start. This is a talent pool ahead of upcoming engagements, so we want to talk to strong people now even if a project isn't live on day one.

The work

This isn't a reporting role. Our clients come to us because they have data they aren't using and decisions they can't answer. You'd be working directly with the founder on client delivery — turning messy commercial data into something the business actually acts on.

Typical engagements involve:

• Analysing customer, order, inventory and marketplace data to find what's actually driving performance
• Building models in dbt on top of BigQuery or Snowflake
• Designing dashboards that get used, not dashboards that get built and forgotten
• Cohort, retention, LTV and churn analysis
• Pricing, stock-age and demand analysis
• Defining metrics properly — and making sure they mean the same thing everywhere
• Presenting findings to client stakeholders clearly, including people who aren't technical

What we're looking for

• Strong SQL. Genuinely strong — window functions, complex joins, performance awareness
• Real analytical judgement: knowing which question matters, not just answering the one you were asked
• Experience with BigQuery or Snowflake in production
• dbt experience, or a solid grasp of analytics engineering practice
• A BI tool in anger — Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Metabase or similar
• Comfortable working in English with UK-based clients, including client-facing conversations
• Able to explain a finding to a non-technical stakeholder without dumbing it down

Nice to have

• Ecommerce, marketplace, retail, subscription or logistics data experience
• Python for analysis (pandas)
• Git and a review workflow
• Experiment design and A/B testing
• Forecasting or basic predictive modelling
• Experience working in a consultancy or agency

Practical details

• Fully remote, contract basis (PJ)
• Project-based work, typically several weeks to several months
• Good overlap with UK hours (Brazil is 3–4 hours behind, so the working day lines up well)
• Paid in GBP or BRL, your preference

How to apply

Send your CV or LinkedIn profile, and please include:

1. Your day rate expectation (BRL or GBP — whichever you work in) — applications without a daily rate expectation won't be considered

2. A short note on one analysis you've done that changed what the business did — what you found, and what happened next

3. Your availability and current commitments

4. Whether you invoice as PJ

We read everything and reply either way.