Lead Data Engineer - Snowflake Platform & Data Pipelines

Priority Dispatch Corp.; Florida; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

El Car Wash is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the enterprise data platform powering analytics, reporting, and business applications across the organization. You will lead scalable Snowflake-based pipelines and partner with Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Technology to deliver trusted datasets.

You will implement medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), develop dbt models, support BI and AI initiatives, ensure data quality and governance, and advance CI/CD

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics engineering.
• Strong Snowflake experience with warehouse management, security, and performance optimization.
• Experience with dbt Cloud for data modeling, testing, and deployment.
• Advanced SQL with experience optimizing and modernizing legacy SQL environments.
• Experience designing dimensional data models (Kimball, SCD Type 2).
• Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and orchestration tools.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services including Azure Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, Key Vault.
• Experience with Git-based version control and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of Power BI or similar BI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines within Snowflake using Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture.
• Develop and optimize data models using dbt Cloud to create reliable datasets.
• Integrate data from multiple enterprise systems (POS, HRIS, ERP, CRM, Finance, Marketing, Operations).
• Lead migration of legacy SQL Server/Azure SQL into cloud-based architecture.
• Develop and maintain a unified enterprise data model standardizing information across sources.
• Build automated ingestion, transformation, and change-detection processes.
• Implement data quality, testing, documentation, governance best practices.
• Establish CI/CD and version control for reliable data development.
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Technology to deliver trusted reporting and analytics.
• Troubleshoot data issues and optimize platform performance.

Skills

Snowflake

dbt Cloud

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data modeling

CI/CD

Azure

Power BI

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

dbt Cloud

Git

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Power BI

Job description

El Car Wash is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain the enterprise data platform powering analytics, reporting, and business applications across the organization. You will lead scalable Snowflake-based pipelines and partner with Finance, Operations, Marketing, and Technology to deliver trusted datasets.

You will implement medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), develop dbt models, support BI and AI initiatives, ensure data quality and governance, and advance CI/CD