Sales Analytics Data Engineer Apply (https://jobs.cisco.com/jobs/Login?projectId=1448762) + Location:Offsite, San Jose, California, US + Area of InterestEngineer - Software + Compensation Range146000 USD- 263600 USD + Job TypeProfessional + Technology InterestBig Data, Analytics + Job Id1448762 The application window is expected to close on: October 10, 2025 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. **Meet the Team** We are the Sales Strategy, Planning and Operations team, leading the transformation of sales planning activities at Cisco. Our mission is to turn complex, multi-source data into actionable insights that empower sales, accelerate growth, and drive strategic decision-making at all levels. Our team—comprised of analytics data engineers, data scientists and data analysts —collaborates to deliver trusted data insights, impactful dashboards, and advanced data science models. **Your Impact** Key Responsibilities + Strategic Data Foundation: Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and architectures (maximising HANA, Snowflake and external data sources) to enable reliable, timely, and well-structured data for analytics, dashboards, and modeling. + Insight Acceleration: Partner closely with analytics managers, data analysts, and data scientists to deliver insights that directly advise executive sales, planning, and go-to-market strategies. + Business Partnership: Collaborate with business and strategy partners to understand evolving requirements and translate them into technical data solutions that support growth initiatives—such as segmentation, customer insights, and new go-to-market approaches. + Efficiency and Automation: Identify and automate manual or repetitive data processes, scaling analytics capabilities and freeing up analysts for more strategic work. + Data Quality and Reliability: Ensure the integrity, consistency, and accuracy of data pipelines and data models, supporting business-critical Tableau dashboards, Excel workbooks, and data science models. + Innovation and Best Practices: Prototype and implement new data solutions, championing data engineering standards and experimenting with emerging tools and techniques (e.g., AI, Python, cloud data migration). + Generative AI Integration: Partner with data scientists and AI teams to prototype, integrate, and operationalize generative AI solutions (such as large language models, text summarization, or automated insight generation) into analytics workflows and business processes. + Multi-functional Enablement: Build relationships across Cisco’s data stewards, architects, and business teams to discover new data sources, drive data integration, and contribute to company-wide data initiatives. + Mentorship and Collaboration: Share knowledge, mentor peers, and help foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement across the analytics engineering function. **Minimum Qualifications** + 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, or similar role, with a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field + Proven success in designing and maintaining scalable data architectures supporting sales, marketing, or business analytics + Strong expertise in SQL or Python and experience with major relational database technologies (SAP HANA, Snowflake, etc.) **Preferred Qualifications** + Experience supporting high-impact projects such as segmentation, unified customer definitions, or go-to-market strategy development + Cloud data migration and AI/ML solution prototyping experience + Practical knowledge of prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or deploying generative AI models in production + Ability to communicate technical concepts to business collaborators and influence data-driven decisions + Experience working with generative AI models and tools (e.g., OpenAI, Azure AI, Google Vertex AI, or similar) for data enrichment, insight generation, or workflow automation + Experience collaborating with AI or data science teams to design, implement, and integrate generative AI solutions into business analytics environments **Why Cisco?** At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. **Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:** When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process. U.S. employees haveaccess (https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/careers/we-are-cisco/benefits-and-perks.html) to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows: .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota; 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%; 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation. For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid. Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. 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