Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake Cortex)

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake Cortex) Location: Remote Contract About Smart IT Frame: At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together. Role : We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale chat-with-data capabilities for an enterprise-grade, customer-facing platform. The ideal candidate has deep experience with production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, Snowflake Cortex, vectorization techniques, and developing robust reliability frameworks to ensure trustworthy AI responses across structured and unstructured data. Key Responsibilities • Develop and scale RAG-based data workflows to power chat-with-data and analytical conversational experiences. • Build and operationalize Snowflake Cortex Agents, Analysts, and Search solutions. • Design ingestion, preprocessing, embedding, and vector search pipelines for large-scale datasets. • Implement guardrails, evaluation metrics, and testing frameworks to ensure response accuracy, reliability, and safety. • Optimize system performance across embedding models, vector indexes, and LLM inference layers. • Ensure secure handling and governance of structured and unstructured data assets. Required Skills & Qualifications • Hands-on expertise with RAG architectures, embedding models, chunking, and retrieval optimization. • Strong experience with Snowflake Cortex(Agents, Analysts, Search, vector functions). • Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience building scalable data pipelines. • Solid knowledge of vector databases • Experience with unstructured data processing and document intelligence workflows. • Familiarity with LLM orchestration tools. • Ability to build testing, observability, reliability, and guardrail frameworks for AI-driven systems. • Strong system design, problem solving, and communication skills. 📩 Apply today or share profiles at Gayathri.s@smartitframe.com