Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake & Cortex AI (Bellevue)

Smart Tech Link; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Tech Link in Bellevue, WA seeks a Sr. Data Engineer with 12+ years to design scalable data pipelines, Snowflake data warehouses, and Cortex Analyst workflows. You will partner with data scientists and enterprise stakeholders to deliver robust data products in a fast-paced consulting environment.

You will own architecture of data lakes, semantic models, and NL querying, while guiding junior engineers and ensuring governance and security across projects.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software and data engineering experience.
• Deep Snowflake data architecture, SQL, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on Cortex AI services experience for analytics.
• Experience designing Semantic Views and Semantic Models.
• Ability to partner with data scientists and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, scale, and optimize data pipelines and data warehouses.
• Architect and manage Snowflake platforms, warehouses, and access control.
• Develop high-performance Python data processing scripts.
• Design and maintain Semantic Views and Semantic Models for BI.
• Integrate Cortex Analyst and AI services for NL querying.
• Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and business teams in Bellevue.
• Perform data profiling, quality checks, and cost optimization.
• Maintain data governance, security, and documentation.
• Mentor junior data engineers across projects.

Skills

Snowflake

Python

Cortex AI

Semantic Views

Semantic Models

SQL

Data governance

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Apache Airflow

Prefect

Dagster

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Job description

Smart Tech Link in Bellevue, WA seeks a Sr. Data Engineer with 12+ years to design scalable data pipelines, Snowflake data warehouses, and Cortex Analyst workflows. You will partner with data scientists and enterprise stakeholders to deliver robust data products in a fast-paced consulting environment.

You will own architecture of data lakes, semantic models, and NL querying, while guiding junior engineers and ensuring governance and security across projects.