About this role
Job Description: Sr Data Engineer (Snowflake + dbt )
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### Experience Required
8+ Years
### Location
Dallas
### Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake & dbt Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Data Warehousing, and Analytics Engineering. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Snowflake, dbt (Data Build Tool), SQL, ETL/ELT development, and Azure cloud platform . The candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and modern data warehouse solutions to support enterprise analytics and reporting initiatives.
## Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data solutions using Snowflake and dbt .
- Build and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and load large-scale data from multiple sources.
- Develop reusable and modular dbt models, macros, tests, snapshots, and documentation.
- Implement dimensional data models including Star Schema and Snowflake Schema for reporting and analytics.
- Optimize Snowflake performance through query tuning, clustering, partitioning, and warehouse sizing.
- Design and implement data quality frameworks, monitoring, and automated validations using dbt.
- Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Business Stakeholders, and Product teams to understand requirements and deliver data solutions.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines for dbt deployments and automate data workflows.
- Ensure data governance, security, compliance, and best practices within Snowflake environments.
- Troubleshoot data issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive solutions.
- Create technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and data lineage documentation.
- Mentor junior data engineers and establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Experience with orchestration tools such as: Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Understanding of data governance, security, metadata management, and data lineage.
- Experience handling structured and semi-structured data (JSON, XML, Parquet, Avro).
Nice To Have: Knowledge in HRMS or Finance data