About the Team

The Retail & Human Resources Strategy team is a world-class community of analysts who work in a collaborative environment that leverages a variety of strategic and technical skillsets to help drive CarMax's $20B retail sales business and guide decisions impacting the workforce of more than 25,000 Associates.

CarMax's retail business is undergoing an eCommerce & omnichannel transformation which is helping extend market leadership while positioning for future growth. The Retail Data Strategy team serves as the data foundation for this transformation, building and maintaining the analytics infrastructure, governing data assets, and reporting pipelines that power the team's work. From navigating large-scale data migrations to enabling self-service analytics, the team ensures that every part of the organization can make decisions grounded in reliable, trusted data.

About the Role

This role sits at the intersection of data engineering and business analytics, partnering across Data Engineering, Technology and Product, and Strategy Analysts to build and maintain the data foundation the team depends on. It requires a stronger technical foundation than a traditional strategy or data analyst position, and is well-suited for someone who wants to see their work directly reflected in how the business understands and acts on its data.

Responsibilities

• •Partner across technology and business teams to understand the customer and associate experience, identify key analytical questions, and translate those needs into clear data requirements and contracts, bridging technical and non-technical audiences throughout the process
• •Design, build, and maintain governed data models, views, and tables in Snowflake that serve as the foundation for Retail Strategy's reporting and analysis
• •Own the business logic layer, translating business definitions into consistent, documented SQL transformations and metric definitions that analysts and stakeholders can trust
• •Monitor data transformation performance and data quality; proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact reporting or stakeholders
• •Build and optimize Power BI reporting infrastructure, including semantic layer development and data source integration giving stakeholders timely and reliable visibility into key metrics
• •Lead the evaluation and implementation of emerging AI-powered analytical tooling to accelerate insight delivery across the team

Required Qualifications

• •Two or more years of experience in an analytical or strategic role (Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, etc.)
• •Advanced SQL proficiency, including complex transformations, performance tuning, and business logic implementation
• •Experience with version control (Git/GitHub) and CI/CD concepts for data workflows
• •Experience with job scheduling and orchestration tools
• •Proficiency with enterprise BI tools including data source integration; Power BI, Report Builder, Tableau preferred
• •Ability to translate between technical and business audiences; strong documentation skills
• •Track record of working cross-functionally with both technical teams and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• •Experience with transformation frameworks (dbt or similar)
• •Experience with Snowflake or a similar cloud data warehouse platform
• •Experience implementing data quality testing and monitoring
• •Hands-on experience designing dimensional or relational data models
• •Familiarity with data governance and self-service BI enablement practices
• •Background in retail or similarly complex data environments

Work Location

This role will be based out of the CarMax Midtown Office in Richmond, VA. Associates will work onsite 4 days per week. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role.

Compensation

The annual salary range for this position is $88,400 - $132,600. May be eligible for bonus and equity.