Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake & AWS Data Platform

Tavant; Houston (TX); Vor Ort; USD 110.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Tavant in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to design, build, and scale a modern cloud data platform centered on Snowflake and AWS. You will shape data products, ontology-driven models, and governance practices across enterprise data.

The role emphasizes scalable pipelines, data quality, metadata, and collaboration with governance teams to deliver trusted data for analytics, AI, and BI. You will work with Snowflake Catalog, Horizon, Informatica, and dbt to enable enterprise data

Qualifikationen

• Strong background in data engineering, ETL/ELT pipelines, and cloud data platform development.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience including modeling, security, and performance.
• Experience with AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Informatica or similar enterprise data integration tools.
• Proficiency with dbt for transformations and analytics engineering workflows.
• Familiarity with Apache Iceberg and open table formats.
• Knowledge of data cataloging, governance, and metadata management.
• Understanding of ontology, semantic modeling, taxonomies, and business glossaries.
• Strong SQL and Python or similar language.
• Ability to work with stakeholders to define data entities, relationships, and metrics.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Develop ingestion and load processes using Informatica, aligning with enterprise standards.
• Build transformation logic using dbt with modular models, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Design and manage data structures in Snowflake as the central platform.
• Work with AWS-based data services supporting applications and data products in the AWS environment.
• Support data architecture using Iceberg managed tables, cataloging, and governance.
• Utilize Snowflake Catalog and Horizon for metadata management, lineage, and data sharing governance.
• Collaborate with data architects, governance teams, analysts, and stakeholders to define trusted data products.
• Translate business concepts into logical and physical data models and reusable data products.
• Implement data quality checks, lineage, observability, and governance controls.
• Support data products and applications such as analytics and AI-enabled use cases.
• Ensure data solutions meet security, privacy, access control, performance, and reliability requirements.

Kenntnisse

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Cloud data platform

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Informatica

Apache Iceberg

Metadata management

Governance

Ontology knowledge

Communication

Tools

Snowflake Catalog

Snowflake Horizon

Informatica governance capabilities

dbt

Jobbeschreibung

Tavant in Houston, TX is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to design, build, and scale a modern cloud data platform centered on Snowflake and AWS. You will shape data products, ontology-driven models, and governance practices across enterprise data.

The role emphasizes scalable pipelines, data quality, metadata, and collaboration with governance teams to deliver trusted data for analytics, AI, and BI. You will work with Snowflake Catalog, Horizon, Informatica, and dbt to enable enterprise data