Senior DataOps Engineer (Snowflake / Talend / Data Platform)

Job Description

Job Description

Senior Programmer AnalystJob at a Glance

• Title: Senior Programmer Analyst — DataOps Engineer
• Location: Richmond, VA — local candidates only (must be able to drive in)
• Contract: W2 only

Overview

The organization is investing in modern, scalable data platforms — Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, Talend, Denodo, and Informatica IDMC — to deliver reliable, performant, and trusted analytics at enterprise scale. This role owns the operational health, performance, and evolution of those platforms, enabling DataOps best practices and ensuring they are production-ready, observable, and optimized for cost and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation, reliability, and performance of enterprise data platforms
• Implement and evolve DataOps standards, tooling, and operational processes
• Partner with architecture and delivery teams to evaluate and implement new capabilities
• Drive platform optimization across performance, cost, resiliency, and user experience
• Support analytics, data science, and reporting teams with data onboarding and issue resolution
• Ensure platforms are secure, scalable, observable, and production-ready
• Mentor junior engineers and promote platform engineering best practices

Required Skills

• 7+ years in data platform engineering, data infrastructure, and/or analytics platform operations
• 5+ years writing and optimizing complex SQL for analytical and reporting workloads
• 3+ years designing Data Marts with dimensional modeling (facts, dimensions, star/snowflake schemas)
• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms such as Talend, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, Denodo, and Informatica IDMC
• Proven experience setting up, supporting, and operating enterprise data platforms
• Experience with real-time streaming platforms
• Data virtualization platforms (e.g., Denodo)
• Data catalog platforms (e.g., Informatica IDMC)
• Data observability platforms
• ABAC Security Platform experience
• Strong troubleshooting, monitoring, and operational dashboard skills
• Ability to document standards, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Experience supporting releases, upgrades, and platform enhancements
• Collaboration with security and governance teams on access controls and compliance
• Technical guidance across multiple initiatives

Required Education

• No Education Requirements

Preferred Skills

• Infrastructure as code or automation frameworks
• Cloud data platform optimization and cost management
• Security, access controls, and governance models in data platforms
• Familiarity with Power Apps or low-code analytics enablement

Why Should I Apply?

This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge data platforms and influence enterprise-scale analytics solutions. If you are passionate about DataOps, platform reliability, and innovative data architecture, this position is ideal for you.

About CEI:
As a trusted technology partner, CEI delivers solutions that help our customers transform their business and achieve meaningful results. From strategy and custom application development through application management - our technology and digital experience services are tailored to meet each unique need of our customers. Our staffing solutions bring specialized skills to complement our customers' workforce and project requirements.

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