Senior Cloud Data Engineer - ELT/ETL & Cost Insights

AgileEngine, LLC.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines powering cloud cost visibility and performance insights for a Cloud Economics team.

You will build scalable ELT/ETL workflows using Python, SQL, dbt, and Airflow across AWS services like Glue, Athena, and Aurora, alongside Snowflake. You will collaborate with Engineering and Finance stakeholders to optimize costs and enable usage-based decision making, while ensuring data quality and reliability in

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering roles.
• Strong ELT/ETL pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Experience with orchestration tools such as dbt, Airflow, or Dagster.
• AWS data ecosystem experience including AWS Glue, Athena, and Aurora.
• Experience with Snowflake.
• Strong data modeling and large-scale data processing experience.
• Experience with CI/CD, version control, IaC (Terraform), and REST API integrations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the Cloud Economics team's data pipelines and automation systems.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and datasets that power cloud cost visibility, attribution, and performance insights.
• Design and implement data models and ingestion frameworks to support large-scale telemetry and usage data.
• Develop tooling that enables cost-aware decision‑making across Product, Engineering, and Finance stakeholders.
• Optimize data systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency (query tuning, storage strategies, compute optimization).
• Partner with Engineering and Finance teams to support cost optimization initiatives and usage‑based insights.
• Ensure data quality, validation, and auditability across end‑to‑end data workflows.

Skills

Data engineering

ELT/ETL pipelines

SQL

Python

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Snowflake

AWS

Cost optimization

Data modeling

Tools

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Amazon Aurora

Terraform

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines powering cloud cost visibility and performance insights for a Cloud Economics team.

You will build scalable ELT/ETL workflows using Python, SQL, dbt, and Airflow across AWS services like Glue, Athena, and Aurora, alongside Snowflake. You will collaborate with Engineering and Finance stakeholders to optimize costs and enable usage-based decision making, while ensuring data quality and reliability in