Time since we first saw it
Day 7
Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 54.
From 11,115 similar postings that came down. Coming down is not always a hire.
Data Engineer — Food Cost Analytics
Lahore, Pakistan
Actively hiring, first seen by us 7 days ago- Pay
- Pay not listed
- Work setting
On-site — work setting source
Work setup in the employer’s posting: On-site
From the employer’s posting- Employment
Full-time — employment source
Employment type in the employer’s posting: Full time
From the employer’s posting
What you’ll work on
Full postingAnalyze purchase orders, invoices, inventory and POS data to find food cost variance drivers
Write MySQL and SQL Server queries that surface waste, portion drift, and price trends
Build and support data feeds and calculations behind internal food-cost tooling
Write and deploy production PHP code that carries cost insights into store workflows
Diagnose data quality issues in operational systems and work with engineering to fix them
From the employer’s posting
Analyze purchase orders, vendor invoices, inventory counts, and point-of-sale data to identify drivers of food cost variance by store, vendor, item, and week.
Write and maintain MySQL and SQL Server queries that surface waste, over-prep, portion drift, price movement, and invoice discrepancy trends.
Build and support the data feeds, calculations, and fixes behind our internal food-cost tooling.
Write and deploy production PHP code in our internal applications to carry food-cost insights into the workflows store and operations teams use daily.
Diagnose data quality issues in operational systems (missing items, mismatched units of measure, duplicate or stalled imports) and partner with engineering to resolve them.
Posting record
Report an errorActively hiringFirst seen by us 7 days ago, still listed, and not a repost of an earlier posting.
- Status in our records
- Live
- First seen by us
- Oct 29, 20267 days ago
- Recorded sightings
- 7
- Last seen by us
- Nov 5, 2026
These dates show when we found the posting. Check the employer’s website to confirm it is still accepting applications.
How this job compares
Tkxel is hiring
6 open jobs
Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.
- Hiring at a steady pace
- Takes jobs down at a usual pace
See how this role fits your experience
Add your resume and we’ll mark which of these tools you already use, and point out anything in the posting that could rule you out.
- PHP
- SQL
- BigQuery
- MySQL
- SQL Server
Where the posting names them
tooling. ● Write and deploy production PHP code in our internal applications to carry food-cost insights into the workflows store and operations teams use daily.
● Comfort working directly with stakeholders to turn analysis into action. ● Production experience writing and deploying PHP in a real application — this role ships code (Would prefer to have this but not important if the resource doesn’t)
identify drivers of food cost variance by store, vendor, item, and week. ● Write and maintain MySQL and SQL Server queries that surface waste, over-prep, portion drift, price movement, and invoice discrepancy trends.
Required Qualifications ● Strong SQL skills across both MySQL, SQL Server and BigQuery: joins, aggregations, windowed logic where available, and performance-minded query design on transactional
● Familiarity with reporting and visualization tools (Quicksight). ● Experience integrating or auditing point-of-sale or ERP data (Brink, SQL Server, BigQuery).
Your next step
Complete your application on tkxel.zohorecruit.com. The employer’s form will show what is required.
Already applied? Track this application
Demand for Data Engineer roles
New Data Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 8% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.
Each bar is one week of new postings. The darkest bars are the last 5 weeks.
Counted from the hiring pages we’ve followed for at least five weeks, so employers we add don’t look like growth. Updated weekly.
About the role
We file this job under Data Engineer, by the work the posting describes.
Data engineers build and run the pipelines that copy data out of apps and outside services into a warehouse or lake, and fix them when a source changes or a load fails.
Expect SQL, Python, a cloud platform, a scheduler such as Airflow, and often tools for large data such as Spark or Kafka.
An analytics engineer works one step later, turning the raw data a data engineer lands into clean tables people can query.
US government figures for database architects
- Median yearly pay, May 2025
- $139,500
- Expected change, 2025 to 2035
- 9.4% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs
The government has no code for data engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, database architects, which includes data integration and data warehousing specialists.
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1243.
Job description
Food cost is one of the largest line items in our business, and it moves at the intersection of
purchasing, prep, portioning, and menu mix. We are hiring a data-minded engineer to make that
cost legible: to trace where margin leaks, quantify why, and ship the code that helps our teams
correct it. This is not a reporting-only role — you will own the full loop from data diagnosis to
production deployment.
Key Responsibilities
● Analyze purchase orders, vendor invoices, inventory counts, and point-of-sale data to
identify drivers of food cost variance by store, vendor, item, and week.
● Write and maintain MySQL and SQL Server queries that surface waste, over-prep, portion
drift, price movement, and invoice discrepancy trends.
● Build and support the data feeds, calculations, and fixes behind our internal food-cost
tooling.
● Write and deploy production PHP code in our internal applications to carry food-cost insights
into the workflows store and operations teams use daily.
● Diagnose data quality issues in operational systems (missing items, mismatched units of
measure, duplicate or stalled imports) and partner with engineering to resolve them.
● Communicate findings in clear written analysis: what the data shows, how confident we can
be, and what action it recommends.
● Partner with purchasing, store operations, and leadership to turn analytical findings into
measurable cost reduction.
Requirements
Required Qualifications
● Strong SQL skills across both MySQL, SQL Server and BigQuery: joins, aggregations,
windowed logic where available, and performance-minded query design on transactional
data.
● Know how to use LLMs to get things done, correctly and quickly
● Demonstrated analytical ability: breaking ambiguous business problems into testable
questions and answering them with data.
● Clear, concise written communication; comfortable writing up findings for non-technical
audiences.
● Working knowledge of relational database design and data quality diagnostics (duplicates,
nulls, grain mismatches, unit conversions).
● Comfort working directly with stakeholders to turn analysis into action.
● Production experience writing and deploying PHP in a real application — this role ships code
(Would prefer to have this but not important if the resource doesn’t)
Preferred Qualifications
● Familiarity with food-cost concepts: theoretical vs. actual food cost, yield testing, plate cost,
and inventory valuation.
● Experience with vendor invoice reconciliation or purchase-order auditing.
● Familiarity with reporting and visualization tools (Quicksight).
● Experience integrating or auditing point-of-sale or ERP data (Brink, SQL Server, BigQuery).
Source details
Source notes
Source excerptsSelected passages from the saved posting. Check the full description for conditions and exceptions.
- Pay
No pay amount identified in the saved description.
- Location & working pattern
Lahore, Pakistan
Working pattern and location restrictions need checking in the full posting.
- Work authorization
No clear work-authorization passage found. Eligibility is unconfirmed.