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We are hiring a data-minded engineer to make that \ncost legible: to trace where margin leaks, quantify why, and ship the code that helps our teams \ncorrect it. This is not a reporting-only role - you will own the full loop from data diagnosis to \nproduction deployment. \n\nKey Responsibilities\nAnalyze purchase orders, vendor invoices, inventory counts, and point-of-sale data to \nidentify drivers of food cost variance by store, vendor, item, and week. \nWrite and maintain MySQL and SQL Server queries that surface waste, over-prep, portion \ndrift, price movement, and invoice discrepancy trends. \nBuild and support the data feeds, calculations, and fixes behind our internal food-cost \ntooling. \nWrite and deploy production PHP code in our internal applications to carry food-cost insights \ninto the workflows store and operations teams use daily. \nDiagnose data quality issues in operational systems (missing items, mismatched units of \nmeasure, duplicate or stalled imports) and partner with engineering to resolve them. \nCommunicate findings in clear written analysis: what the data shows, how confident we can \nbe, and what action it recommends. \nPartner with purchasing, store operations, and leadership to turn analytical findings into \nmeasurable cost reduction. \nRequirements\nRequired Qualifications\nStrong SQL skills across both MySQL, SQL Server and BigQuery: joins, aggregations, \nwindowed logic where available, and performance-minded query design on transactional \ndata. \nKnow how to use LLMs to get things done, correctly and quickly \nDemonstrated analytical ability: breaking ambiguous business problems into testable \nquestions and answering them with data. \nClear, concise written communication; 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