Sr. Data Modeler

General Summary

Under the supervision of the Manager of Analytics, the Senior Developer works with developers, business analysts, and business partners in a fast-paced delivery environment for data and analytics. The Senior Developer is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing enterprise-grade data pipelines, analytical data models, and machine-learning–ready datasets within our Snowflake ecosystem. This role serves as a bridge between Data Engineering, Analytics, and Data Science, enabling high-quality insight creation and data-driven innovation across the organization.

The Senior Developer has deep experience with modern cloud data platforms, advanced SQL development, data modeling, AI/ML integration, and business intelligence solutions.

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, transformations, and models in Snowflake, ensuring performance, reliability, and optimal storage patterns.
• Collaborate closely with Analytics and Data Science teams to enable advanced analytics, experimentation frameworks, and model monitoring.
• Advanced data design, analysis, and profiling.
• Understand, create and implement process design and target data models.
• Partner with business stakeholders, data scientists, and analysts to translate requirements into well-governed datasets and analytical assets.
• Develop, test, debug, and document data structures, data schemas, and data processes.
• Address performance or data quality issues.
• Data mining, auditing, aggregation, validation, and reconciliation.
• Support operational excellence through monitoring, automated testing, CI/CD deployment practices, and Data Ops principles.
• Agile ceremonies:
  Code reviews, Sprint Reviews/Commitments, Sprint planning.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics or related field.
• 6+ years of professional experience in data engineering in data warehouse, big data, and analytics areas.
• Expertise with ETL, ELT and streaming data pipelines and related tools and technologies.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience using Snowflake or other relational data stores.
• Advanced experience with semi‑structured document processing such as XML & JSON.
• Advanced experience with programming and scripting using bash, Python, Perl, etc.
• Must be knowledgeable of data warehouse concepts including the use of dimensional modeling and schema designs.
• Advanced experience with performance tuning of SQL queries.
• Thorough understanding of systems analysis and design, SDLC.
• Ability to analyze complex applications and systems with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops preferred), version control, and automated deployment frameworks.
• Prior work in fintech, risk analytics, consumer lending, or highly regulated environments is strongly preferred.

• Ability to effectively communicate with business users to understand business processes.
• Highly Proficient in analyzing business objectives and requirements.
• Skills in design and development of efficient data integration solutions.
• Ability to design and maintain scalable data architectures that support analytics, operational insights, and machine learning.
• Experience with data integration tools such as Informatica, Matillion, Streamsets, or similar tools.
• Highly proficient in SQL.
• Ability to analyze business and system processes to support solution development.
• Understanding and ability to manage through an enterprise‑wide project/solution impacts, issues, and risks.
• Ability to manage across company teams to ensure collaboration in support of high‑quality solutions.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns (feature engineering, inference pipelines, embeddings, and ML frameworks).
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced experience with Visio and related design/flow tools. Fluent with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook. Medium skill level with MS Project.
• Comfortable in a fast‑paced and cutting‑edge development environment.

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