Senior Data Platform Engineer - Lakehouse & Snowflake

Novalink Solutions; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions in Columbus, OH is looking for a Database Administrator 4 to lead ELT pipelines, data modeling, and data governance in a hybrid role. You will design and optimize Snowflake-based data ecosystems, manage metadata, and mentor team members while ensuring robust data architecture across Gold/Silver/Bronze layers.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, data migration, and enterprise reporting capabilities. Bachelor’s degree required; strong SQL and cloud data experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and implementing enterprise data warehouse/lakehouse solutions.
• Expert-level SQL with optimization and complex data sets.
• Experience building automated ELT pipelines in Python/SQL and cloud data tools.
• Hands-on Snowflake data engineering, DW/ETL, BI solutions.
• Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) design and standards.
• Dimensional modeling including facts, dimensions, star schemas, semantic layer.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain ELT pipelines and orchestration.
• Develop and optimize data models across Lakehouse layers.
• Define standards for data ingestion, schemas, and formats.
• Document pipelines, architecture, and data migrations.
• Implement BI solutions, warehouses, marts and dashboards.
• Govern data quality, lineage, and metadata using Alation or similar.

Skills

SQL skills

ELT pipelines

Python

Medallion Architecture

Dimensional modeling

APIs/JSON ingestion

Data governance

Data migration

Independent leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, IT, Computer Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Alation

dbt

ER Studio

Job description

Novalink Solutions in Columbus, OH is looking for a Database Administrator 4 to lead ELT pipelines, data modeling, and data governance in a hybrid role. You will design and optimize Snowflake-based data ecosystems, manage metadata, and mentor team members while ensuring robust data architecture across Gold/Silver/Bronze layers.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, data migration, and enterprise reporting capabilities. Bachelor’s degree required; strong SQL and cloud data experience preferred.