Senior Snowflake Data Engineer
BravoTECH · Plano, TX · 2 days ago
Information TechnologyFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help build and scale a modern cloud data platform that powers analytics, reporting, machine learning, and future AI initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable DBT models and analytics-ready datasets.
- Build and maintain reusable dimensional, semantic, and enterprise data models.
- Write and optimize complex SQL transformations across large datasets.
- Develop Python-based tools for data quality, automation, validation, and platform operations.
- Own data products and pipelines from design through production support.
- Implement data quality checks, documentation, lineage, monitoring, and observability standards.
- Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, metrics, business definitions, and trusted data assets.
- Support data governance initiatives, including metadata, ownership, stewardship, and certification.
- Help prepare enterprise data assets for future AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics use cases.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Strong SQL experience, including complex analytical transformations at scale.
- Hands-on DBT experience, including modeling, testing, documentation, CI/CD, and deployment workflows.
- Strong Python programming skills for data processing, automation, APIs, and tooling.
- Experience designing dimensional, semantic, and analytics-focused data models.
- Experience building and optimizing large-scale data pipelines and cloud-based data platforms.
- Strong understanding of modern ELT practices and data warehouse architecture.
- Experience with Git-based development workflows and code review processes.
- Experience supporting BI, analytics, and self-service reporting environments.
- Experience supporting production data environments, incident response, and operational troubleshooting.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferences
- Experience with Snowflake, AWS, Airflow or Astronomer, Fivetran, RudderStack, GitHub, and modern BI platforms.
- Experience with data governance tools such as Atlan, Collibra, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with metadata management, lineage, stewardship, and enterprise data quality practices.
- Experience defining business metrics, KPI standards, and enterprise data definitions.
- Exposure to AWS services such as S3, RDS, Lambda, or related cloud storage and processing technologies.
- Interest in AI-enabled analytics, semantic layers, retrieval-based architectures, AI agents, or intelligent automation.