Hire a Analytics Engineer.

Analytics engineers own the transformation layer — the dbt models, metrics definitions, and semantic consistency that decide whether the company trusts its numbers. The role emerged from the analyst side, so strong candidates combine SQL craftsmanship with software habits: version control, testing, and code review applied to data models. We screen for exactly that intersection, and for the stakeholder patience the role demands, since analytics engineers spend half their time negotiating what a metric means.