Senior Strategic Data Analyst (AI/Palantir)

Location: Austin, Texas, United States; onsite four days per week

Company

hirify.global is a global fintech company providing insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, mortgage, and related business solutions.

What you will do

• Frame strategically important and ambiguous analytical questions for North America Insurance leadership and develop executive-ready recommendations.
• Design and deliver enterprise-scale analytical products from metric definition and data modeling through self-service delivery.
• Lead multi-quarter investigations across large, multi-source datasets and integrate insights across business functions.
• Write and optimize expert-level SQL in Palantir Foundry, extending dbt models and Palantir Ontology objects as needed.
• Architect and productionize AI-augmented workflows, including generative AI classification pipelines, with rigorous output verification.
• Establish analytical standards for problem framing, data limitations, stakeholder communication, and analytical trust.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in data analytics, analytics engineering, business intelligence, or strategy-adjacent analytics.
• Expert SQL skills, including window functions, CTEs, multi-table joins, query optimization, and reusable data logic.
• Experience delivering end-to-end analytical products, modern cloud data warehouses, and data modeling with dbt or an equivalent framework.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous business problems, lead multi-quarter initiatives, and communicate recommendations to C-suite stakeholders.
• Production-quality experience integrating AI or ML into analytical workflows and validating AI outputs before business use.
• Comfort with an onsite presence in Austin four days per week is required; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Hands-on Palantir Foundry experience, including Ontology modeling or Workshop application development.
• Python proficiency for analytical automation, data transformation, or ML/AI pipeline development.
• Experience in insurance, financial services, complex B2B environments, or direct C-suite presentations.
• Experience with agile practices, Git-based workflows, Jira, or establishing reusable analytics standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with onsite collaboration and cross-functional partnership.
• Paid vacation, holidays, sick time, maternity leave, and paternity leave.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, fertility, and employee assistance benefits.
• Vested 401(k) with company match, HSA, FSA, commuter benefits, and financial wellness programs.
• Career growth and learning opportunities, plus a Calm app subscription and optional pet insurance.