Cleartelligence

Senior Data Engineer

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This role is a Senior Data Engineer contract position from 5/4/26 to 12/31/26, with a focus on Snowflake and dbt. Requires 5+ years in data engineering, advanced SQL skills, and strong consulting abilities. Pay rate is "unknown."
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
April 20, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United States
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#dbt (data build tool) #Scala #Monitoring #Agile #Data Management #Documentation #Data Engineering #Data Integration #SQL (Structured Query Language) #GitLab #Version Control #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Cloud #Data Quality #Security #Data Modeling #Consulting #Data Architecture #Snowflake #Streamlit #Leadership #Data Pipeline #Data Migration #Migration #GitHub
Role description
As a Senior Data Management Consultant, you will play a key role in designing, building, and enabling analytics solutions on modern cloud data platforms. This role focuses on solving complex data integration and modeling challenges using Snowflake and dbt, while partnering closely with clients and stakeholders to deliver trusted, high-impact analytics solutions. This position requires a strong blend of technical expertise and consulting skills, including the ability to lead discovery, translate business needs into well-designed data models, and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. This is contract role, starting 5/4/26 through 12/31/26, with potential for extension RESPONSIBILITIES • Analyze data from diverse source systems to understand upstream business processes, data semantics, and integration requirements • Lead discovery and requirements-gathering efforts with business and technical stakeholders to shape analytics solutions • Design and implement scalable Snowflake-based data architectures that support analytics, reporting, and downstream consumption • Develop, test, and maintain robust, performance-optimized ELT pipelines using Snowflake and dbt best practices • Build curated, analytics-ready data models that enable self-service reporting and decision-making • Apply analytics engineering best practices, including modular modeling, testing, documentation, and version control using dbt • Identify and resolve complex data integration, data quality, and performance issues across the analytics stack • Implement and maintain CI/CD workflows for data pipelines and analytics models using GitHub or GitLab • Lead or support data migrations from on-premises or legacy platforms to Snowflake • Provide technical leadership and guidance on data modeling standards, transformation patterns, and analytics architecture • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams using agile delivery methodologies • Support release management for data platforms, pipelines, and analytics assets • Design and manage workflow orchestration and monitoring for data pipelines • Ensure data platform security, including role-based access control and secure data sharing within Snowflake • Communicate clearly and confidently with clients, including presenting technical concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations QUALIFICATIONS • 5+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data management roles • Strong experience designing and delivering analytics solutions on Snowflake, including data modeling, performance optimization, and security • Hands-on experience using dbt for analytics engineering, including model development, testing, and documentation • Experience with Streamlit • Advanced SQL skills, including complex transformations, multi-layer queries, and analytical patterns • Experience developing ELT pipelines in a modern cloud data platform environment • Strong understanding of modern data warehousing, analytics engineering, and semantic modeling concepts • Experience with CI/CD tooling and version control using GitHub and or GitLab • Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into well-structured data models and analytics solutions • Strong consulting and client-facing skills, including stakeholder communication, expectation management, and solution ownership • Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical audiences • Experience working in agile, client-facing, or consulting environments It is our policy to provide and promote equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment following all local, state, and federal laws and regulations governing personnel activities. Under federal guidelines we are committed to a program of affirmative action for work sites in the United States.