Senior Data Engineer – Hybrid, AWS/Snowflake & AI Pipelines

Breakthru Beverage Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate Bonus 20%

Job summary

Breakthru Beverage Group is seeking an Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud data platforms. This senior IC will provide architectural guidance and mentor engineers while collaborating across BI, Analytics, and AI/ML teams.

The role emphasizes AWS/Snowflake data solutions, ELT/ETL using dbt, and data governance with CI/CD practices, in a flexible hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical roles.
• Strong expertise in SQL and building scalable, complex data transformations.
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering, orchestration, and automation workflows.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise-grade data platforms on AWS and Snowflake.
• Experience with dbt or similar modern ELT/transformation frameworks.
• Proven experience building and optimizing production-grade batch and near real-time data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, curated data layers, and scalable data architecture patterns.
• Experience designing data solutions that support analytics, AI/ML, and modern AI-driven applications.
• Expertise with CI/CD, Git-based development workflows, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code deployments.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, cross-functional enterprise environments.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted engineering and developer productivity tools to improve code quality, reliability, and delivery speed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS and Snowflake to ingest, transform, and serve enterprise data.
• Develop ELT/ETL processes using dbt, SQL, and Python to support BI, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Design curated, scalable, and AI-ready data models and data products for trusted enterprise consumption.
• Optimize pipelines for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Leverage AWS services such as S3, Lambda, Glue, DynamoDB, MWAA and Snowflake to build secure data solutions.
• Implement ingestion frameworks for batch, API, CDC, streaming, and near real-time processing.
• Design architectures that support modern AI/ML workloads and ensure CI/CD governance.
• Embed data quality checks, testing frameworks, and validation controls into pipelines.
• Partner with Data Governance to enforce enterprise data standards.
• Collaborate with BI, Analytics, AI/ML teams to deliver scalable data solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to architecture standards and engineering best practices.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Cloud data engineering

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related

Tools

dbt

AWS

Snowflake

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Breakthru Beverage Group is seeking an Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and cloud data platforms. This senior IC will provide architectural guidance and mentor engineers while collaborating across BI, Analytics, and AI/ML teams.

The role emphasizes AWS/Snowflake data solutions, ELT/ETL using dbt, and data governance with CI/CD practices, in a flexible hybrid schedule.