Sr Data Engineer
Scottsdale, AZ - USA
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with the technical expertise architectural insight and problem-solving skills to design build and maintain our modern data platform. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on engineer who can deliver at scale ensure data quality and work across teams to support both operational and analytical workloads.
Onsite Scottsdale Arizona
Hybrid role
Citizen or GC Holders
Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain scalable data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for both batch and streaming use cases.
- Implement data validation and integrity frameworks ensuring accuracy completeness and reconciliation across systems.
- Administer and optimize cloud-based data services (AWS Snowflake Databricks etc.).
- Ensure compliance with data governance and regulations (PCI-DSS GDPR CPRA SOX etc.).
- Deliver proof of concepts and lightweight prototypes to validate architectural improvements.
- Collaborate with business units audit teams and stakeholders to align data architecture with organizational needs.
- Support reporting and analytics teams by enabling Tableau (or future-state tools) through well-structured data models and governance.
- Seek out new work proactively and mentor other team members.
- Own projects end-to-end and deliver measurable results.
- Diagnose and resolve complex data issues quickly.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or equivalent experience.
- 10 years of experience in data engineering.
- Mastery of complicated SQL for loading data including complex joins subqueries windowing functions and common table expressions.
- Advanced proficiency in Python developing and supporting robust pipelines frameworks and automation solutions.
- Proven history designing and managing Data Warehousing solutions including proper loading techniques star schema modeling slowly changing dimensions and aggregate strategies.
- Strong understanding of OLTP modeling (3NF) and how to denormalize for performance or downstream use.
- Production experience with unstructured and semi-structured data (e.g. JSON MongoDB APIs) and integrating it into enterprise data ecosystems.
- Practical expertise implementing and optimizing pipeline orchestration with tools such as Airflow or Prefect.
- Experience implementing and optimizing 3rd party transformation tools such as dbt Talend or FiveTran.
- Demonstrated success in delivering scalable solutions using cloud-based data platforms like Snowflake or Databricks.
- Applied experience leveraging AWS data services (S3 Glue Redshift Lambda Secrets Manager etc.) in secure and cost-effective ways.
- Demonstrated ability to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements including PCI-DSS GDPR CPRA CCPA and SOX.
- Effective communication skills for engaging both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborating with business and audit stakeholders.
- Proven capability mentoring peers promoting best practices and contributing to team growth.
- High adaptability to changing requirements emerging technologies and competing priorities.
- Nice to have: Hands-on experience with Data Lake and Lakehouse technologies (e.g. Delta Lake Iceberg Hudi) for managing large-scale data assets.
This role is critical to our data engineering practice. We are looking for a hands-on leader who can operate in both structured and fast-changing environments while delivering high-quality scalable solutions.
Additional Information :
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Thank You
Arnold Avila
Xceed Search
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time