Senior Data Engineer — AI-Ready Data Mesh & Snowflake

Nimble Gravity, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble Gravity, LLC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to architect and build scalable data pipelines powering our decentralized Data Mesh strategy. You will lead Snowflake platform work, design semantic models for AI readiness, and mentor a small team of data engineers and analysts as we transition to a modern cloud-based data platform.

You will drive modernization using dbt, integrate Azure and AWS data tools, and ensure high-quality data inputs for AI-enabled self-service features across the

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of dedicated data engineering experience.
• Advanced, hands-on experience with Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and data sharing.
• Experience moving data across hybrid environments (on-prem to cloud) using batch, streaming, and event-driven patterns.
• Experience building semantic layers (dbt Semantic Layer, Snowflake Cortex/Semantic definitions) for AI/LLM or NLP features.
• Strong Python and SQL skills in cloud environments; familiarity with Azure and AWS data tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for batch, real-time streaming, and event-driven data movement.
• Own Snowflake data platform development, performance tuning, modeling, and storage structures.
• Architect and build transform pipelines delivering high-quality inputs to Snowflake and dbt AI features; maintain semantic layers and metadata models for AI features.
• Establish reference architectures, templates, and CI/CD practices to enable decentralized teams to build safely.
• Provide direct management and mentorship to one data engineer and guide analysts to mature engineering practices.
• Drive modernization and tooling, including adoption of dbt and integration of Azure/AWS data tools to optimize data flow.

Skills

Python

SQL

Cloud environments

Leadership

Mentorship

Data engineering

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Azure Functions

Stream Analytics

Job description

Nimble Gravity, LLC seeks a Senior Data Engineer to architect and build scalable data pipelines powering our decentralized Data Mesh strategy. You will lead Snowflake platform work, design semantic models for AI readiness, and mentor a small team of data engineers and analysts as we transition to a modern cloud-based data platform.

You will drive modernization using dbt, integrate Azure and AWS data tools, and ensure high-quality data inputs for AI-enabled self-service features across the