Data Engineer

Title: Sr. Data EngineerDuration: 6 months contract to hire Location: Onsite 4 days a week in Richarson Texas In-office presence is required 4 days a week, with WFH on Fridays.Interview: One round of in-person interviews at the above locationTop Required Skills:.1. 10+ years of experience in data engineering / analytics engineering roles.2. Strong hands-on experience with dbt in production, including:o Model development and dependency managemento Macro development and reusable frameworkso Testing strategies (schema tests, custom tests)o Deployment and environment management3. Strong Snowflake expertise, including:o Data modeling and warehouse designo Performance tuning and cost optimizationo Deep understanding of virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, clustering, and query pruningo Role-based access control (RBAC) and secure data access4. Advanced SQL expertise with ability to build and optimize complex transformations.5. Strong Python programming skills for data engineering use cases.6. Proven experience with Git integration, including collaborative development workflows.7. Strong experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data platforms and dbt deployments.8. Experience building and maintaining production-grade data pipelines with SLAs, monitoring, and reliability standards.9. Mandatory requirement: direct, hands-on experience with Fivetran, dbt, and Snowflake in production, including Fivetran connector setup and troubleshooting, dbt model development and testing, and Snowflake data engineering, performance tuning, and secure access patterns. This is a strict screening criterion.