Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data EngineerOur client is a US-based EdTech company that connects with local communities to provide learners of every age group with vital life skills and financial literacy.By bridging the gap between corporate entities and educational communities, our client fosters meaningful social impact alongside healthy work environments. Serving as an experienced advisor, their team provides targeted instruction in financial literacy, critical life skills, and regulatory compliance, cultivating lasting relationships between organizations and the populations they support.For our client, we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who combines strong technical expertise with ownership and sound engineering judgment. This person should be able to design and build scalable, reliable data solutions while understanding the broader business objectives behind them. They should be comfortable making architectural decisions, improving existing processes, identifying opportunities for automation, and driving technical initiatives from design through production. The ideal candidate is collaborative, mentors other engineers through code reviews and technical guidance, and proactively identifies risks, performance improvements, and opportunities to modernize our client's data platform.What You'll DoOwn complex technical projects with minimal direction.Design scalable, maintainable, and well-documented data pipelines and models.What We're Looking ForMust-Have ExperienceAt least 5 years of relevant experience, but ideally 7 or more.Robust experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning and modern Snowflake capabilities.Solid experience building and maintaining ELT pipelines using dbt.Experience orchestrating data workflows using Apache Airflow or a similar orchestration platform.Comfort creating reports and data visualizations in modern tools like Sigma, Tableau, or Power BI.Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data warehousing, and analytics engineering best practices.Nice-to-havesExperience designing and preparing scalable, high-quality data foundations for AI/ML applications using Snowflake Cortex AIOur recruitment processRecruiter interview (30 min)Technical Interview (30 min)Client Interview 1 (duration still being determined)Client Interview 2 (duration still being determined)Client Interview 3 (duration still being determined)We strive to move efficiently from step to step to make the recruitment process as fast as possible.What we offerTotally remote, full-time (40h/week)Work hours - 8 hours a day, US Eastern time office hoursIndependent contractor agreement, with an initial four-month duration, with the option to extend to a full year or longer based on performance and continued need.Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice