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Senior Data Engineer, Snowflake (Direct Hire) Type: Direct Hire / Full-Time
Location: Minneapolis St. Paul area, onsite 4 days per week in Maple Grove
Interviews: Schedule with Manager and then technical panel interview.
Overview Client is bringing all of its data onto Snowflake and AWS and needs a senior Data Engineer to eventually lead the work. The first project is small, but it's a chance to set the foundations, frameworks and best practices correctly from the start. Over time, this person will guide Client's data platform modernization. The role mixes architecture, strategy and hands-on delivery.
Key Responsibilities- Deliver the first Snowflake project within the first 3 months, working with Apex s Snowflake Architect: bring in an initial set of data from file stores and file transfer systems.
- Build the foundations and frameworks for bringing in more data sources, including PostgreSQL later on.
- Guide Client leadership on modern data architecture, including lakehouse vs. traditional EDW and medallion architecture.
- Work with Client's parent company and Apex's data practice to carry shared standards into Client's implementation.
- Advise on semantic layer design for analytics and future AI use cases.
- Apply engineering best practices: CI/CD, deployments and version control.
Must-Have- Strong Snowflake experience, including setting up the foundational architecture and best practices.
- Strong AWS experience on modern data platforms.
- Strong hands-on SQL.
- PostgreSQL experience, ideally pg_lake. Other relational databases such as SQL Server or Oracle are acceptable.
- Data warehousing fundamentals: Kimball, dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, OLAP vs. OLTP.
- Experience bringing in data from many different sources, including file-based sources.
- CI/CD, deployment and version control experience.
- A general understanding of SSO (Okta) and security best practices.
- Proven ability to guide stakeholders through a modernization effort.
Nice-to-Have- Python, including AI-assisted development.
- GoAnywhere or similar file transfer and ingestion tools.
- Semantic layer and context layer design.
- Infrastructure as Code.
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