Senior Consultant, Data Engineer

BizFirst; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Proprietary learning academy

Paid certifications

Mentoring program

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Data Engineer to join their hybrid team in New York or Washington, D.C. The ideal candidate will have strong data engineering skills, including pipeline design and experience with platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks. This role offers opportunities for growth through proprietary learning modules, mentoring, and the chance to work with diverse clients across different industries. Candidates should have a B.S. in a technical field and possess consultative skills that enable effective client interactions.

Qualifications

• Strong data engineering fundamentals in pipeline design and data modeling.
• Hands-on experience with at least two data platforms mentioned.
• Ability to collaborate and understand client needs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data pipelines for ingestion and transformation.
• Set up data lakes and warehouses for scalability.
• Ensure security and reliability of data systems.

Skills

Data engineering fundamentals

Pipeline design

Data modeling

Curiosity and problem-solving

Consultative skills

Education

B.S. in technical field

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Neo4J

Job description

New York, United States | Posted on 03/30/2026

Work Style/ Location: Hybrid(3 days in office), NY or DC

Type: Full-Time

Sector: Data, AI &Analytics

Position Overview

BizFirst is supporting ourclient in identifying a Data Engineer to join a growing consulting team workingacross industries, clients, and technologies. You've got the skills, thecuriosity, and the hunger to grow. This is the platform to go further.

Our client is a fast-growingglobal data and AI consultancy with operations across three continents and 140+consultants serving 70+ enterprise clients. They've built a consultant-firstculture with a proprietary learning academy, paid certifications, and deeppartnerships with platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud. TheUS office combines the credibility of an established global brand with theenergy of a New York startup.

Your Career, Accelerated

You're not just taking a job,you're investing in your growth. You'll work across industries and clientengagements that stretch your thinking. You'll have access to proprietaryplaybooks and toolkits that fast-track your success on projects. And you'll alwayshave a principal consultant who has your back, not just be thrown into the deepend.

What You'll Do

You're the builder, making suredata flows cleanly and reliably. Most of the work will center on dataengineering and migration of legacy systems to modern platforms.

• Design and build pipelines to ingest, transform, andload data

• Set up data lakes and warehouses for scalable access

• Ensure systems are secure, reliable, and cost-effective

• Collaborate with analysts, ML engineers, and platformteams

• Data Platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery,Neo4J (experience across multiple platforms, not just one)

What We're Looking For

We're open to people atdifferent experience levels and career stages. We're on the hunt for people wholove solving problems, thinking critically, and staying curious. The rightperson for this role brings a mix of technical depth and consulting instincts:

• Bachelors, B.S. in technical field

• Strong data engineering fundamentals: pipeline design,data modeling, and platform migration

• Hands-on experience with at least two of the platformslisted above

• Experience with data architecture design is preferred

• Consultative and facilitation skills: you can sit witha client, understand what they need, translate that into a technical approach,and lead working sessions to gather requirements and align stakeholders

• Ability to balance working independently and being agreat teammate in a fast-moving consulting environment

• Curiosity and a genuine interest in learning new tools,patterns, and approaches

These aren't requirements,but if any of these describe you, we'd love to hear about it:

• Experience with data architecture design and datagovernance

• Certifications in any of the key platforms (e.g.,SnowPro, dbt, GCP Professional Data Engineer, Databricks)

• Exposure to ML pipelines, MLOps, or AI-adjacent dataengineering

Your work matters, and so doyou. Here's what's waiting:

• Proprietary learning academy with 100+ custom modules

• Mentoring program with a Senior Support Lead

• 360-degree progress reviews with real feedback, notfluff

• Guilds, regular training, and peer learning

• Paid certifications across all major platforms

• Hackathons and innovation days

• Kudos and recognition programs

• Socials, book clubs, Data & Drinks, and teambuilding days

About BizFirst

BizFirst is a recruiting firmbuilt for companies that got tired of being account #47. We place talent acrossAI and data, GovCon, finance and operations, and telecom infrastructure. Everysearch is led by a senior Delivery Lead managing just 3 to 4 clients total. Theresult: candidates in days, a single point of contact from kickoff toplacement, and a 94% retention rate past 90 days.

BizFirst LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.