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Lead Snowflake Data Engineer

L6

united itRosemont, ILyesterday

Occupations

Data Warehousing SpecialistsSoftware DevelopersData Scientists

Industries

Computer Systems Design ServicesCustom Computer Programming ServicesSoftware Publishers
Lead Snowflake Data Engineer
Location: Rosemont, IL (Remote ok)
Position overview: We are looking for a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for leading the team of data engineers (Onsite/Offshore) to build new data pipelines (loading millions of transformed true records into our cloud data warehouse in a timely manner) to support evolving analytical needs for critical business decisions. Manage existing data pipelines keeping data relevant and true, ready for analytical consumption.
Key responsibilities:
  • Lead data warehouse development activities for a team
  • Lead more than one project in parallel
  • Assign data warehouse development tasks to team of 1-6 developers (Onsite/Offshore)
  • Be a subject-matter expert (SME) in Data Warehouse domain and relevant business function
  • Work with minimal supervision and provide status updates and escalation to leadership as appropriate
  • Provides application support as part of an on-call rotation to work on resolving outages and user questions
  • Review project objectives and determine best technology to apply
  • Design and build large scale datasets for a wide range of consumer needs
  • Build, test and implement highly efficient data pipelines using a variety of technologies
  • Develop best practice standards for solution design and data structures
  • Create and maintain project specific documentation like architecture diagrams, flow charts
  • Analyze new data sources to understand quality, availability, and content
  • Write technical design documentation
  • Conducts peer code reviews
  • Create and executes unit tests
  • Supports QA team during testing
  • Mentor less experienced members of the development team
Technical skills: 6 years+ experience on Snowflake SQL – advanced SQL expertise 6 years+ experience on data warehouse experiences – hands on knowledge with the methods to identify, collect, manipulate, transform, normalize, clean, and validate data, star schema, normalization / denormalization, dimensions, aggregations etc 6 years+ experience working in reporting and analytics environments – development, data profiling, metric development, CICD, production deployment, troubleshooting, query tuning, Atlassian Bitbucket and Bamboo etc 4 years+ on Python – advanced Python expertise 4 years+ on any cloud platform – AWS preferred o Hands on experience on AWS on Lambda, S3, SNS / SQS, EC2 is a bare minimum 4 years+ on any ETL / ELT tool – Informatica, Pentaho, Fivetran, DBT etc 4 years+ with developing functional metrics in any specific business vertical (finance, retail, telecom etc) Must have soft skills: Enterprise Experience – Understands and follows enterprise guidelines for CICD, security, change management, RCA, on-call rotation etc
Nice to have: Technical certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Azure, GCP or any other recognized Software vendor 4 years+ on any ETL / ELT tool – Informatica, Pentaho, Fivetran, DBT etc
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Level

LeadL6

Location

Rosemont, IL

Occupation

Data Warehousing Specialists

Industry

Computer Systems Design Services

Posted

yesterday

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