Data Movement Engineer (Snowflake) - Contractor

Data Movement Engineer (Snowflake) Own the Snowflake ecosystem. Build modern, cloud‑scale data solutions. We’re supporting a large organization in the middle of a major data platform modernization, transitioning core systems into a cloud‑first architecture. They’re hiring a Data Movement Engineer (Snowflake) to take a lead role in designing, optimizing, and supporting Snowflake‑based data solutions that power analytics, reporting, and enterprise decision‑making. This is a high‑impact contract opportunity for someone who enjoys production ownership, performance tuning, and building resilient, scalable data platforms. What You’ll Do Lead the full lifecycle of Snowflake data operations: monitoring, troubleshooting, optimization, and continuous improvement Design, build, and optimize Snowflake pipelines, transformations, and data models Translate business and technical requirements into Snowflake‑native data movement solutions Develop and tune advanced SQL, warehouses, and storage strategies for performance and scalability Implement best practices across ingestion, transformation, security, and data modeling Support advanced patterns including CDC and SCD Type2 Work with Data Vault and dimensional modeling frameworks Provide production support across Snowflake, IBMDB2, and orchestration tools (Airflow, ESP) Perform root‑cause analysis on data issues, pipeline failures, and performance degradation Lead data quality initiatives including validation, reconciliation, lineage, and governance Partner closely with data architects, engineers, analysts, and application teams Provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior engineers Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and production support playbooks Contribute to architecture decisions, effort estimates, and long‑term platform improvements Participate in on‑call or after‑hours support as needed What You Bring 5+ years in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics engineering roles Strong Snowflake expertise (development, optimization, security, modeling); certification a plus Advanced SQL skills across platforms such as Snowflake, Oracle, SQL Server, and/or DB2 Experience with cloud data platforms and modern data architectures Working knowledge of CDC, SCDType2, and enterprise data modeling techniques Familiarity with DataVault and dimensional modeling Experience supporting production data environments and incident management Proficiency with orchestration tools like Airflow or ESP Comfort with scripting (Python, Shell) and version control (Git) Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools Strong problem‑solving skills, ownership mentality, and ability to work independently Excellent communication, documentation, and time‑management skills Nice to Have Background supporting large‑scale Snowflake environments Experience in modernization or cloud migration initiatives Exposure to CI/CD for data platforms Passion for mentoring and influencing technical direction Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience) Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr