Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Cost Insights (Flexible Hours)

AgileEngine; Texas City (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

A selection of exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines and automation systems powering cloud cost visibility, attribution, and performance insights for a Cloud Economics team. You will build scalable ELT/ETL workflows across AWS services and Snowflake, optimizing for performance and cost efficiency.

You will partner with Engineering and Finance to support cost optimization initiatives, ensure data quality, and enable usage-based decision-making.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering roles.
• Experience building end-to-end ELT/ETL pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Experience with dbt, Airflow, or Dagster for orchestration.
• Experience with AWS data services including Glue, Athena, and Aurora.
• Experience with Snowflake.
• Strong data modeling and large-scale data processing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, version control, Terraform, and REST API integrations.
• Upper-intermediate English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Cloud Economics data pipelines and automation systems.
• Build scalable datasets powering cloud cost visibility and performance insights.
• Design data models and ingestion frameworks for telemetry and usage data.
• Develop tooling for cost-aware decision-making across stakeholders.
• Optimize pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Finance to support cost optimization goals.
• Ensure data quality, validation, and auditability across end-to-end workflows.

Skills

ELT/ETL pipelines

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Analytical skills

Upper-intermediate English

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

AWS Glue

Amazon Athena

Amazon Aurora

Snowflake

Terraform

REST API integrations

CI/CD

Version control

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain data pipelines and automation systems powering cloud cost visibility, attribution, and performance insights for a Cloud Economics team. You will build scalable ELT/ETL workflows across AWS services and Snowflake, optimizing for performance and cost efficiency.

You will partner with Engineering and Finance to support cost optimization initiatives, ensure data quality, and enable usage-based decision-making.