Senior Data Engineer: AI Agents & Lakehouse Automation

Appnovation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Appnovation seeks a Senior Data Engineer, AI & Agents to prepare enterprise domain data for AI agents and collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure governed, high-quality data assets.

You will build domain data agents over governed datasets, perform lakehouse migrations to open formats like Apache Iceberg, and generate catalogue metadata for downstream automation and data-contract workflows using Databricks and Snowflake. Strong cross-team collaboration is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering experience with modern warehousing or lakehouse platforms.
• Hands-on with Databricks and Snowflake for data platform work.
• Experience building domain-grounded data agents over governed datasets.
• Strong governance, masking, and data security practices.
• Excellent stakeholder-facing and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Prepare enterprise domain data for AI agents and stakeholder consumption.
• Build and register domain data agents over governed tables.
• Perform lakehouse migrations and open-format conversions (e.g., Iceberg).
• Generate and curate catalogue metadata for data-contract workflows.
• Partner with business stakeholders through iterative build, test, and validation cycles.

Skills

Databricks

Snowflake

PySpark

SQL

Airflow

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

dbt

Git

Apache Iceberg

Python

Job description

Appnovation seeks a Senior Data Engineer, AI & Agents to prepare enterprise domain data for AI agents and collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure governed, high-quality data assets.

You will build domain data agents over governed datasets, perform lakehouse migrations to open formats like Apache Iceberg, and generate catalogue metadata for downstream automation and data-contract workflows using Databricks and Snowflake. Strong cross-team collaboration is essential.