Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer As the Senior Data Engineer , you will help build, maintain, and optimize the data infrastructure that powers our decision-making and product development.

You'll work with modern tools like Snowflake, Metabase, Mage, Airbyte, and MySQL to enable data visualization, data mining, and efficient access to high-quality insights across our GradGuard ecosystem.

This is a key opportunity for someone with around five years of experience who's passionate about turning data into impact.

This position is based in Phoenix, AZ.

Challenges You'll Focus On :

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures using Mage (or similar orchestrators) and Airbyte for ELT processes.  Ensure efficient and reliable data ingestion, transformation, and loading into Snowflake.
• Perform data mining and exploratory data analysis to uncover trends, patterns, and business opportunities.
• Ensure the quality, consistency, and reliability of the underlying data.
• Promote best practices and quality standards for the data engineering team.
• Partner with Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Product teams to define data needs and ensure data infrastructure supports strategic initiatives.
• Optimize SQL queries and data models for performance and scalability.
• Contribute to improving data standards, documentation, and governance across all data systems.
• Help ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements in the insurance domain.

The person we're looking for has a proven, successful background with :

Hands-on experience with :

Beyond basic SQL, you must understand Snowflake's unique architecture and features which includes :

Beyond a fulfilling and challenging role, you'll get :

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