Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote, Growth & Impact

AgileEngine, LLC.; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 379,687,000 - 569,530,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to operate and improve a Snowflake-based data platform in a regulated healthcare environment, driving reliability and data quality.

You will own ingestion via Fivetran/HVR, dbt transformations, and orchestration on Argo/Kubernetes, collaborating with Security, Analytics, and Cloud/DevOps teams.

Strong SQL, Python, and production incident experience are essential, as is mentoring engineers and communicating with client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake including data-layer design, warehouse performance, and production troubleshooting.
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with dbt for transformation, testing, documentation, lineage, and controlled deployment.
• Experience operating managed ingestion tools such as Fivetran or HVR and supporting custom data-ingestion pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data services (S3) and event-driven/file-based ingestion patterns.
• Experience with Argo Workflows on Kubernetes or similar workflow orchestration tools.
• Proficiency in Python or a comparable language for data engineering and automation.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline dependencies, schema evolution, backfills, data validation, and data quality.
• Experience with observability, logging, alerting, and incident-management for production data platforms.
• Ability to lead complex incident resolution, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventive improvements.
• Ability to make well-reasoned technical decisions, estimate work, and guide platform improvements across a complex data platform.
• Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating with Cloud/DevOps, Analytics, Security, Governance, and business stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills with client stakeholders.
• Full availability to work 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time and participate in on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical ownership for the Data Platform service tower during the LatAm coverage window, including day-to-day operations and L2/L3 escalation.
• Operate and improve Snowflake production and non-production environments, including warehouse configuration, performance monitoring, and support for production changes.
• Administer data access with least-privilege controls and audit-ready practices.
• Operate and improve data ingestion across Fivetran and HVR, including connector configuration, scheduling, and failure recovery.
• Design, build, and maintain reliable pipelines and dbt models across RAW, CURATED, and CONSUMPTION layers with testing and lineage.
• Support AWS S3 data-lake operations, including lifecycle controls and logging.
• Coordinate with Cloud/DevOps on Argo Workflows and Kubernetes-hosted data workloads.
• Define and improve data quality and observability standards and runbooks.
• Lead or support major data incidents and post-incident reviews for preventive actions.

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to operate and improve a Snowflake-based data platform in a regulated healthcare environment, driving reliability and data quality.

You will own ingestion via Fivetran/HVR, dbt transformations, and orchestration on Argo/Kubernetes, collaborating with Security, Analytics, and Cloud/DevOps teams.

Strong SQL, Python, and production incident experience are essential, as is mentoring engineers and communicating with client stakeholders.