Data Engineer
Job Title: Data Engineer – Snowflake / AWS / Oil & Gas Midstream Location: Houston, TX Job Type: Full Time Experience: 12–18 Years Work Authorization: USC / GC / GC EAD / H4 EAD / L2 onlyJob SummaryWe are looking for a highly experienced Data Engineer / Data Architect with strong expertise in Snowflake, AWS, Data Governance, Ontology/Semantic Modeling, and Generative AI.The ideal candidate must have hands-on experience working within the Oil & Natural Gas Midstream domain, including pipeline, transportation, storage, LNG, natural gas, or related midstream operations.Must-Have RequirementsStrong Snowflake Data Architecture experience, including:Data modelingData warehouse/lakehouse designPerformance optimizationSecurity and access controlsEnterprise-scale Snowflake implementationsStrong Data Governance & Metadata Management experience:Data catalogingMetadata managementData lineageData qualityGovernance frameworksPolicy-driven data accessUnderstanding of Ontology & Semantic Modeling.Strong working knowledge of AWS data services, including:S3GlueLambdaAthenaEMRRedshiftCloud-based data architecturesOil & Natural Gas Midstream domain experience – MandatoryPipeline operationsTransportationStorageLNGNatural GasMidstream operations and data environmentsClaude AI / Generative AI experience – MandatoryClaude / AnthropicLLM-based solutionsRAG architecturesGenerative AI implementationsAI-ready data platformsStable employment history / No frequent job hopping.Preferred ExperienceSnowflake CatalogSnowflake HorizonInformaticaApache IcebergData lineage and observabilityData quality frameworksSemantic layersKnowledge graphsRDF / OWL / SHACL / SPARQLPythonSQLGit / CI/CDEnterprise data platformsAI/ML data architectureWhat we are looking forThe ideal candidate will combine strong enterprise data architecture expertise with deep Oil & Gas Midstream domain knowledge and practical experience implementing GenAI/LLM solutions.Core Skills:Snowflake, Snowflake Architecture, AWS, S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Data Quality, Ontology, Semantic Modeling, Knowledge Graph, Claude AI, Anthropic, Generative AI, LLM, RAG, AI Data Platform, Oil & Gas, Midstream, Pipeline, LNG, Natural Gas, Gas Transportation, Gas Storage.