Manager, Semantic Layer Engineering (AI)

Location: North Bethesda, Maryland — Corporate Headquarters

Salary: $123,600–$145,400 annually, plus eligibility for an annual bonus under the Management Incentive Plan.

Company

hirify.global International is a global lodging franchisor operating 7,500 hotels across 45+ countries and territories.

What you will do

• Build and maintain the enterprise semantic layer as a governed source of truth for metrics used in dashboards, operational systems, data science, and AI agents.
• Implement version-controlled, tested, reusable metric definitions using SQL, transformations, joins, and data from AWS Redshift, S3, and other systems.
• Operate metric quality processes including automated testing, SLA monitoring, lineage tracking, anomaly detection, alerting, and incident response.
• Administer the metric certification lifecycle, consolidate conflicting business logic, and document proposal, validation, approval, and consumption workflows.
• Integrate governed metrics and business context with Tableau, data catalogs, data fabric capabilities, operational systems, and AI applications.
• Manage and develop one direct report, coordinate with product, analytics, governance, and business teams, and report progress to the Senior Director.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, analytics engineering, data engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, or BI platform roles involving governed metrics, reusable data models, and enterprise reporting infrastructure.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with Redshift or other columnar databases, including writing, optimizing, and reviewing complex production queries.
• Hands-on experience with semantic-layer or metrics-store tooling such as dbt Semantic Layer, MetricFlow, Cube, AtScale, LookML, or similar, plus Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Knowledge of dimensional modeling, joins, aggregation logic, performance optimization, semantic-layer design, and production data-quality frameworks.
• Experience with Tableau or a comparable BI platform, strong attention to metric accuracy and governance, and the ability to coordinate across product, analytics, and business teams.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a quantitative or technical field.
• Experience with data catalog, lineage, and data-quality tools such as Atlan, Collibra, Alation, DataHub, or Monte Carlo.
• People-leadership experience or readiness to develop a direct report and establish a new organizational capability.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, or other Atlassian products in agile delivery environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time corporate role with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid leave for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance.
• Retirement and health-savings benefits, employee recognition programs, and hotel discounts.
• Corporate offices include the North Bethesda headquarters and technology center in Scottsdale, with additional offices in Minneapolis.
• Choice’s stated values include respect, boldness, curiosity, integrity, listening, and acting with intention.