Energy Data Engineer: Production Pipelines & AI-Ready Platform

Reach Velocity - Emerging Technology ?? ??; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Reach Velocity is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to build and operate data pipelines powering a centralized platform used by global energy traders, analysts, applications, and AI systems.

You will focus on Python-driven production pipelines, Snowflake data models with dbt, and migrating legacy Oracle components to modern frameworks, while collaborating with analysts and trading users to deliver practical, reliable solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience building and operating production pipelines.
• Strong Python skills, including pandas and modern data-handling practices.
• Strong SQL and data modeling skills.
• Experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse.
• dbt experience is highly preferred.
• Pipeline orchestration experience (Prefect, Airflow, Dagster, etc.).
• Understanding of streaming, caching, time-series, relational, and warehouse environments.
• Strong engineering fundamentals: testing, Git, code reviews, maintainable code.
• Working knowledge of AWS data services and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, and operate production data pipelines in Python, orchestrated with Prefect.
• Develop and maintain Snowflake data models using dbt.
• Migrate legacy pipelines and Oracle-based components to modern frameworks.
• Work across Kafka, Redis, InfluxDB, Oracle, Snowflake, and AWS.
• Integrate external data from APIs, files, feeds, and web sources.
• Implement data quality, freshness, reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Contribute to making platform data AI-ready, documented, and discoverable.
• Collaborate with analysts and desk users to translate requirements into practical solutions.
• Ensure production pipelines meet reliability and performance targets.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

AWS

Git

Testing

Pandas

Energy/Commodities domain

Strong data handling

Tools

Prefect

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Redis

InfluxDB

Oracle

Docker

Terraform

API development

Job description

Reach Velocity is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to build and operate data pipelines powering a centralized platform used by global energy traders, analysts, applications, and AI systems.

You will focus on Python-driven production pipelines, Snowflake data models with dbt, and migrating legacy Oracle components to modern frameworks, while collaborating with analysts and trading users to deliver practical, reliable solutions.