Senior Data Engineer
Accellor•New York, NY
2h
About The Position
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud-native data platforms. This role will focus heavily on Snowflake data warehousing and AWS-based data pipeline architecture, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security across the data lifecycle. This is a hands-on technical leadership role ideal for someone who enjoys building modern data systems, mentoring engineers, and driving best practices in data engineering.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering or related field
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake (architecture, performance tuning, RBAC, data sharing, optimization)
- Extensive experience building data pipelines in AWS (e.g., S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Redshift, Step Functions, Kinesis)
- Strong SQL expertise and advanced data modeling skills
- Experience with Python (or Scala/Java) for data engineering workflows
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Step Functions, etc.)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Deep understanding of data warehouse concepts, distributed systems
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance data pipelines in AWS
- Architect and optimize Snowflake data warehouse environments
- Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows for structured and semi-structured data
- Implement data modeling best practices (dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas)
- Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and observability
- Optimize performance and cost efficiency across AWS and Snowflake environments
- Collaborate with analytics, data science, and business teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions
- Implement CI/CD processes for data workflows
- Mentor junior data engineers and establish engineering best practices
Benefits
- flexible and discretionary time off
- healthcare coverage for you and your loved ones
- receiving retirement savings plan to help you plan for the future
- access to flexible spending and health savings accounts
- life and AD&D insurance
- opportunities for professional development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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