Senior Data Engineer - Remote (Snowflake/dbt)

Sedgwick; Omaha (NE); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sedgwick is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to design and manage scalable data pipelines, with heavy Snowflake and dbt involvement. You will drive data modeling, semantic layers, and CI/CD practices across hybrid environments, mentoring a junior engineer and collaborating with analytics teams.

The role emphasizes on-prem to cloud data movement, real-time streaming, and AI-ready data delivery, with opportunities for growth in a global, values-driven workplace.

Qualifications

• Five (5)+ years of dedicated data engineering experience, with a proven record of building production-grade data pipelines, required.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and data sharing required.
• Experience moving data across hybrid environments, including on-premises to cloud, using batch, streaming, and event-driven patterns required.
• Experience building or maintaining semantic layers and structuring data for downstream AI, LLM, or natural-language search capabilities preferred.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines supporting batch, real-time streaming, and event-driven data movement from on-premises and cloud sources.
• Serves as a core developer for the Snowflake data platform and supports platform performance, data modeling, and storage structures.
• Architects and builds transformation pipelines that deliver high-quality data inputs to Snowflake and dbt AI features.
• Designs and maintains semantic layers and metadata models required to support Self-Service 2.0 natural-language user interfaces.
• Establishes reference architectures, reusable templates, and CI/CD best practices that enable decentralized line-of-business teams to build data products safely and consistently.
• Provides direct management and career mentorship to one data engineer, with potential for team growth, and guides decentralized data analysts in maturing their engineering practices.
• Drives adoption of dbt for data transformation and evaluates the integration of AWS and Azure cloud data tools, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, and Stream Analytics, to optimize data flow.

Skills

Snowflake

Data pipelines

dbt Semantic Layer

Python

Azure Functions

SQL

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Stream Analytics

AWS

CI/CD

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS

Equivalent combination of education/experience

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Sedgwick is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer to design and manage scalable data pipelines, with heavy Snowflake and dbt involvement. You will drive data modeling, semantic layers, and CI/CD practices across hybrid environments, mentoring a junior engineer and collaborating with analytics teams.

The role emphasizes on-prem to cloud data movement, real-time streaming, and AI-ready data delivery, with opportunities for growth in a global, values-driven workplace.