Senior Data Engineer
Virtasant
- Austin, United States
- Remote
- Senior Level
- 5+ years
- Posted
Skills
Required
- Snowflake
- performance tuning
- Snowflake capabilities
- ELT pipelines
- data workflows
- Apache Airflow
- Sigma / Tableau / Power BI
- dimensional modeling
- data warehousing
- dbt
Preferred
- AI/ML
- Cortex AI
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.
About Virtasant
Virtasant Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries.
We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.
Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.
For this role, we can only consider candidates located in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
Work hours are US East Coast time office hours (9 am-6 pm).
About the role Our 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.
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.
Responsibilities
- You’ll Do Own complex technical projects with minimal direction.
Requirements
- Design scalable, maintainable, and well-documented data pipelines and models.
- We’re Looking For Must-Have Experience At 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.
Preferred
- Experience designing and preparing scalable, high-quality data foundations for AI/ML applications using Snowflake Cortex AI Our recruitment process
- Client Interview 1 (duration still being determined)
- Independent 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.
Pay
Payment in USD, biweekly or monthly - your choice
Benefits
- Totally remote, full-time (40h/week) Work hours - 8 hours a day, US Eastern time office hours
Recruiter interview (30 min) Technical Interview (30 min)
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 offer
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