Lead Data Engineer — Snowflake Data Platform

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Magna Legal Services seeks a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to own the architecture and evolution of our enterprise data platform. You will oversee Snowflake, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data modeling, while mentoring engineers and aligning with business goals.

You’ll partner with stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions, establish standards, and drive modernization of our cloud data environment for scalable, reliable insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive data engineering experience in a modern cloud data environment.
• Advanced Snowflake expertise including data warehouse architecture, performance tuning, security, and cost optimization.
• Advanced SQL skills and Python for data processing, automation, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience designing and operating scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with orchestration, testing, and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Own the Snowflake data warehouse architecture, performance, security, reliability, and cost optimization.
• Lead design, development, and standardization of scalable ETL/ELT pipelines across sources, incl. migration to Azure Data Factory.
• Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, docs, version control, deployment, and data quality.
• Design dimensional models (star schemas) within a medallion architecture using dbt and related tools.
• Translate data needs into a prioritized technical roadmap and deliver reusable data solutions.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, mentoring, and collaboration with stakeholders.
• Evaluate tools and processes to improve scalability, reliability, and delivery efficiency.
• Lead complex data engineering initiatives with governance and data literacy in mind.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

Dimensional modeling

Mentoring

Cloud data

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

dbt

Sigma

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Magna Legal Services seeks a hands-on Lead Data Engineer to own the architecture and evolution of our enterprise data platform. You will oversee Snowflake, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data modeling, while mentoring engineers and aligning with business goals.

You’ll partner with stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions, establish standards, and drive modernization of our cloud data environment for scalable, reliable insights.