Sr. Data Engineer

SummaryOur client is seeking a Sr. Analytics Engineer to serve as the Technical Lead and Product Owner for their data platform. This is a hands-on, senior IC role covering pipeline engineering, governance, and BI from ingestion through the semantic layer and executive dashboards.ResponsibilitiesOwn end-to-end data pipelines across an AWS stack (Step Functions, Glue, Lambda, Snowflake, dbt). Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) for business continuity and disaster recovery. Maintain enterprise data model and data dictionary across sources. Enforce data governance and security best practices in Snowflake (RBAC, masking, least-privilege). Design systems of record with proper versioning and audit history. Own the database design for AI/ML infrastructure including vector databases. Design and maintain a semantic layer for natural language data discovery. Own the executive and operational BI dashboards. Support actuarial and advanced analytics pipelines. Mentor junior data team members. RequirementsAnalytics/Data Engineering experience with demonstrated growth in scope. Hands-on dbt experience at scale. Strong Snowflake proficiency (security, access, performance). Hands-on AWS Data Services experience (Glue, Step Functions, S3, Lambda). Strong SQL and Python skills. Experience owning a BI roadmap and dashboards for executive/operational audiences. Experience with enterprise data models and semantic layers in multi-source environments. Expertise in data governance and privacy/compliance. Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform or similar). Strong communication skills; comfortable with ambiguity in a small, cross-functional team. PreferredInsurance/financial services experience. Actuarial data workflow exposure. Data observability tooling experience. Experience with Distributed Compute Frameworks (Spark via Glue/EMR). AI/ML pipeline exposure. Experience transitioning platform ownership from consultants to in-house. This is a Remote, Direct Hire opportunity with our Topeka, KS client. Employee benefits include Medical/Dental Benefits, Paid time off, Paid Holidays, and 401(k) (with immediately-vested company match) available with TriCom during the contract period. H1-B Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. No third-parties, please.