Data Engineer Cloud

Need USC And GC onlyHi,Position: Data Engineer Cloud/ArchitectType: Contract (Long term) Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)Must have:Position ResponsibilitiesSnowflake exp of 4+ years• Work with Snowflake to enable secure AI data access and pipelines• Leverage Snowflake Cortex for embedded AI/LLM capabilities• Ensure proper data governance, masking, and access controls• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)The role: Data Architect on Hyatt's growing data engineering team, reporting into a fairly new, high-visibility group. You'd work closely with data engineering, data science, and data product management to shape how data flows across the company.Core responsibilities:Own the enterprise data architecture strategy — setting standards for data flow, aggregation, migration, modeling, and consumptionBridge business and engineering — gather requirements from stakeholders (agile teams, people data, project portfolios) and translate them into technical specs for ETL/BI developersDesign end-to-end data pipelines — from data lake/warehouse architecture through security review and deploymentGovernance — validate that projects align with target-state architecture, enforce data quality standards, handle prioritization/cost-benefit tradeoffs across competing stakeholder demandsReporting infrastructure — help build self-service and automated reporting for leadership/execsWhat they want in a candidate:6+ years in data engineering/BI/analytics, with 4+ years specifically in architecture for commercial-scale pipelinesStrong cloud exposure (AWS preferred)Hands-on familiarity with BI tools (Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, ThoughtSpot)Knowledge of data warehouse/lake platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, SQL Server)Bonus: big-data/open-source stack experience (Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, HBase, Elasticsearch)Comfortable with a range of databases (SQL, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Oracle, etc.)A bachelor's in a quantitative field (CS, engineering, math, stats, finance); an advanced degree is a plusSoft skills matter a lot here too — they explicitly want someone who's a strong relationship-builder, comfortable with ambiguity, and aligned with Hyatt's stated values (respect, integrity, humility, empathy, creativity, fun)In short: this isn't a pure "build pipelines" engineering role — it's a strategic, cross-functional architecture position where technical depth (pipelines, cloud, BI, big data) matters, but so does the ability to influence stakeholders, set standards, and prioritize across a chaotic, fast-moving environment.Best regards,Madhvendra Kumar Sr. Technical RecruiterKPG99,INC madhvendra@kpgtech.com Direct: 6098300389Address: 3240 E State St EXT, Hamilton, NJ 08619An E-Verified Company