Remote Snowflake Data Engineer (Intermediate–Senior)

KData Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

KData Inc. invites a skilled Intermediate–Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake) for a remote Canada-based contract. You will design and operate Snowflake-based data pipelines, models, and architectures to support reporting, analytics, and ML use cases.

The ideal candidate has 3–7 years in data engineering, strong Snowflake, SQL, and Python skills, plus DBT and Airflow experience. This 6‑month role offers 75–80 CAD per hour with strong renewal potential.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Proven expertise in Snowflake: warehousing concepts, performance tuning, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks.
• Experience building data pipelines using DBT, Apache Airflow, or equivalent.
• Proficient in SQL and scripting languages (Python).
• Familiar with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).
• Strong governance, security, and compliance knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines on Snowflake.
• Work with large volumes of structured and semi-structured data.
• Design data models and schemas in Snowflake to support reporting/ML use cases.
• Collaborate with data architects to align with data strategy and standards.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and security across solutions.
• Optimize Snowflake performance and cost through resource management.
• Automate data pipeline deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Mentor junior team members and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Airflow

DBT

Data Modeling

Data Governance

CI/CD

Git

AWS

Tools

Snowflake

DBT

Apache Airflow

Git

Looker/Power BI/Tableau

Job description

KData Inc. invites a skilled Intermediate–Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake) for a remote Canada-based contract. You will design and operate Snowflake-based data pipelines, models, and architectures to support reporting, analytics, and ML use cases.

The ideal candidate has 3–7 years in data engineering, strong Snowflake, SQL, and Python skills, plus DBT and Airflow experience. This 6‑month role offers 75–80 CAD per hour with strong renewal potential.