Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake / dbt / Fivetran / AWS)

Motion Recruitment; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Paid Time Off

Life Insurance

Professional Development Opportunities

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a growing enterprise data team in the North Dallas area. This full-time role requires onsite collaboration four days per week and offers the chance to shape a large-scale data modernization initiative.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of data engineering experience, deep Snowflake expertise, and hands-on work with Fivetran, dbt, and ETL/ELT pipelines across data ingestion, warehousing, and cloud platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• Strong Snowflake experience including warehouse sizing, clustering, partitioning, and performance optimization.
• Experience with Fivetran data ingestion and CDC pipelines.
• Strong dbt experience including staging, intermediate, and mart layer development.
• ETL/ELT pipeline development experience.

Responsibilities

• Hands-On engineering work across the data lifecycle.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design discussions.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver enterprise-scale data solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Snowflake

Fivetran

dbt

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Cloud technologies

Analytics engineering

Data governance

Data quality

Enterprise data products

Kafka/Streaming

Tools

Snowflake

Fivetran

dbt

Python

PySpark

Terraform

CI/CD

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join a growing enterprise data team within a leading financial services organization in the North Dallas area. This full-time opportunity requires onsite collaboration four days per week and offers the chance to play a key role in a large-scale data modernization initiative. The organization is making significant investments in modern data platforms, cloud technologies, and enterprise data products, creating an exciting environment for engineers who want to build scalable solutions, influence technical direction, and help shape the future of a rapidly expanding data organization.

This team is being built from the ground up under new data leadership with a mission to centralize data, modernize analytics capabilities, and deliver scalable data products across the business. The ideal candidate is a well-rounded data engineer with experience across data ingestion, ETL/ELT development, data warehousing, and cloud technologies. You'll have the opportunity to work throughout the entire data lifecycle while helping establish engineering standards, best practices, and enterprise-scale solutions built on Snowflake and AWS.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience
• Strong Snowflake experience including warehouse sizing, clustering, partitioning, and performance optimization
• Experience with Fivetran data ingestion and CDC pipelines
• Strong dbt experience including staging, intermediate, and mart layer development
• ETL/ELT pipeline development experience Desired Skills & Experience
• Data warehouse architecture experience
• Analytics engineering expertise
• Data governance and data quality experience
• Experience building enterprise data products
• Kafka or streaming platform experience

What You Will Be Doing

Tech Breakdown

• 35% Snowflake & Data Warehousing
• 25% dbt & Data Transformation
• 20% Data Ingestion & Fivetran
• 10% Python/PySpark Development
• 10% DevOps, Terraform & CI/CD

Daily Responsibilities

• 80% Hands-On Engineering
• 10% Architecture & Technical Design
• 10% Team Collaboration

The Offer

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Benefits
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Professional Development Opportunities

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Posted By: Tariq Othman