Senior Data Engineer — Cloud Data Pipelines & Snowflake

FIS; Columbus (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Always‑on learning and development

Collaborative work environment

Opportunities to give back

Job summary

FIS is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable data solutions across cloud and legacy platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience with SQL, DBT, Snowflake, Python, and Spark, and familiarity with integrating AWS services, IBM DataStage, and mainframe data including COBOL copybooks.

The role emphasizes modernizing data pipelines, applying CI/CD, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, cost-efficient data workloads.

Qualifications

• Significant professional software engineering or data engineering 5+ years of experience.
• Strong SQL skills, including query development, optimization, and data modeling.
• Hands‑on experience with DBT and Snowflake.
• Proficiency in Python and experience building data-processing solutions with Apache Spark.
• Experience with AWS data services and cloud-based application or pipeline deployment.
• Knowledge of IBM DataStage and enterprise data integration patterns.
• Familiarity with mainframe data formats and the ability to interpret COBOL copybooks.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and transformation workflows.
• Build and optimize DBT models and Snowflake workloads, with attention to performance, data quality, and cost.
• Develop data-processing applications and automation using Python and Apache Spark.
• Integrate data from cloud, relational, and mainframe systems, including files defined by COBOL copybooks.
• Support and modernize existing IBM DataStage workflows while enabling migration to cloud-based platforms.
• Apply software engineering practices such as version control, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with product, analytics, architecture, and operations teams to translate requirements into dependable data solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve pipeline reliability, observability, and operational support.

Skills

SQL

DBT

Snowflake

Python

Apache Spark

AWS data services

IBM DataStage

Mainframe data (COBOL copybooks)

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

DBT

Snowflake

Apache Spark

Python

AWS

IBM DataStage

COBOL copybooks

Job description

FIS is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain reliable data solutions across cloud and legacy platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience with SQL, DBT, Snowflake, Python, and Spark, and familiarity with integrating AWS services, IBM DataStage, and mainframe data including COBOL copybooks.

The role emphasizes modernizing data pipelines, applying CI/CD, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, cost-efficient data workloads.