Data Engineer III — End-to-End Pipeline Builder

ZoomInfo Technologies LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ZoomInfo is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Strategic Partnerships data platform. You will design and ship ETL pipelines, semantic models, and the supporting infrastructure that powers cross-functional initiatives with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product.

The Data Engineer III operates with a high degree of autonomy, owning projects end-to-end—from scoping with BU stakeholders to monitoring pipelines in production—while contributing to engineering standards and maintaining

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer, with ownership of production pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python; production-grade code, debugging pipelines, optimizing queries.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred; BigQuery or equivalent acceptable).
• Solid dbt experience — built and maintained models in production dbt projects.
• Experience with orchestration tools — Airflow and Fivetran required; Dagster or equivalent a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and own end-to-end data pipelines across Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, and Databricks, selecting the right tool with guidance from the Senior Data Engineer.
• Design and maintain dbt models that feed the semantic layer, ensuring they are tested, documented, and reusable.
• Partner with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product to scope data requirements and translate into pipeline specs.
• Contribute to Terraform-managed infrastructure for Fivetran connectors, GCP resources, and AWS components.
• Follow and contribute to team engineering standards — testing, CI/CD, code review, observability, and documentation.
• Independently resolve complex ETL and data quality issues, escalating only for architectural tradeoffs.
• Monitor pipelines for SLA compliance and participate in incident response.
• Apply data governance to ensure PII is handled correctly and BU compliance requirements are met.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Python

SQL

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Databricks

AWS

GCP

GitHub

Tools

Terraform

Dagster

GitHub

Job description

ZoomInfo is seeking a Data Engineer III to join the Strategic Partnerships data platform. You will design and ship ETL pipelines, semantic models, and the supporting infrastructure that powers cross-functional initiatives with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Legal, HR, and Product.

The Data Engineer III operates with a high degree of autonomy, owning projects end-to-end—from scoping with BU stakeholders to monitoring pipelines in production—while contributing to engineering standards and maintaining