Senior Data Engineer

Hollstadt & Associates; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) match

Longevity bonus

Referral bonus

Consultant Coach program

Job summary

Hollstadt Consulting in Oak Park Heights, MN seeks a Senior Data Engineer to lead data platform initiatives and serve as the engineering anchor. This hands-on role requires architectural thinking to build reliable, scalable data solutions across the lifecycle."

You will collaborate with architects, product teams, and distributed teams, driving best practices and influencing technical direction while delivering high-performance data pipelines and governance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• Strong expertise with Snowflake.
• Experience building and optimizing complex data pipelines at scale.
• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills.
• Strong programming experience with Python and/or Spark.
• Experience designing data architectures and scalable engineering frameworks.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence engineering teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working with distributed or offshore engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale data pipelines and data products.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to establish and enforce data engineering best practices.
• Drive technical decisions around data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and delivery.
• Design scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions across the full data lifecycle.
• Collaborate with both onshore and offshore teams, providing technical leadership and mentorship.
• Influence delivery teams on implementation approaches, standards, and engineering quality.
• Optimize performance, reliability, governance, and operational excellence across the data platform.

Skills

Data Engineering

Snowflake

SQL

Data modeling

Python

Spark

Architectural thinking

Technical leadership

Stakeholder comms

Offshore teams

Tools

dbt

Azure DevOps

Azure Blob Storage

Azure Functions

Fivetran

Job description

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations. Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

Job Description

Role

Senior Data Engineer

Location

Hybrid in Oak Park Heights, MN (3 days onsite per week)

Duration

6 months with potential to extend or convert

Rate

$62-$67, dependent on skills and qualifications

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to serve as the technical leader and engineering anchor for modern data platform initiatives. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who can design scalable solutions, influence technical direction, and partner closely with architects, product teams, and distributed engineering teams.

This is not a tool-focused role—we are looking for an engineer with strong architectural thinking who understands how to build reliable, scalable data solutions from the ground up.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale data pipelines and data products
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to establish and enforce data engineering best practices
• Drive technical decisions around data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and delivery
• Design scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions across the full data lifecycle
• Collaborate with both onshore and offshore teams, providing technical leadership and mentorship
• Influence delivery teams on implementation approaches, standards, and engineering quality
• Optimize performance, reliability, governance, and operational excellence across the data platform

Required Skills & Experience

Must-Have Qualifications

• 8+ years of Data Engineering experience
• Strong expertise with Snowflake
• Experience building and optimizing complex data pipelines at scale
• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills
• Strong programming experience with Python and/or Spark
• Experience designing data architectures and scalable engineering frameworks
• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence engineering teams
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience working with distributed or offshore engineering teams

Preferred Experience

• dbt
• Fivetran or similar enterprise data ingestion frameworks
• Azure services including:
  • Azure DevOps (ADO)
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Azure Functions
• Metadata-driven or configuration-driven pipeline development
• Data Vault, Dimensional Modeling, or Star Schema design
• Data governance, observability, and DataOps practices
• Building data foundations that support AI/ML use cases

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is a senior engineer who thinks like an architect. You understand not only how to build solutions, but why they should be built a certain way. You can evaluate tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and guide teams toward scalable, maintainable outcomes.

We're looking for someone who can:

• Design solutions, not just implement requirements
• Influence technical direction and engineering standards
• Communicate effectively with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders
• Balance hands-on delivery with technical leadership

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid schedule: 3 days onsite each week in Oak Park Heights, MN
• Contract-to-hire opportunity with long-term growth potential
• Candidates must be able to work onsite regularly

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees.
• With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!
• One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions.
• Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.
• We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we'll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we'll pay you $1,000!
• We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team – so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).