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Senior Data Engineer

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60290, USA
Listing for: Jobtailor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-22
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Data Engineering, Data Analyst, Data Warehousing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 130000 - 180000 USD Yearly USD 130000.00 180000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, engineering, and program management teams to define product features, business deliverables, and strategies for data products
  • Collaborate with business partners, operations, senior management, etc on day-to-day operational support
  • Support operational reporting, self-service data engineering efforts, production data pipelines, and business intelligence suite
  • Interface with multiple diverse stakeholders and gather/understand business requirements, assess feasibility and impact, and deliver on time with high quality
  • Design appropriate solutions and recommend alternative approaches when necessary
  • Research, prototype, and recommend emerging tools and technologies across cloud data engineering and Generative AI
  • Enable current Generative AI initiatives through the development of pipelines that process unstructured data, transform text, integrate models, and validate generated outputs
  • Work with high volumes of data, fine-tuning database queries and able to solve complex technical problems
  • Contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously
  • Work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment
  • Exercise independent judgment in methods and techniques for obtaining results
  • Work in an agile/scrum environment
  • Use state-of-the-art technologies to acquire, ingest and transform big datasets
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience within the field of data engineering or related technical work including business intelligence, analytics
  • Experience and comfortable solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change. Have the tenacity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, inspire change, and collaborate with a variety of individuals and organizational partners
  • Experience designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business
  • Very good understanding of the full software development life cycle
  • Very good understanding of Data warehousing concepts and approaches
  • Experience in building Data pipelines and ETL approaches
  • Experience in building high-volume data workflows in a cloud environment
  • Experience in building Data warehouses and Business intelligence projects
  • Experience in data cleansing, data validation, and data wrangling
  • Hands-on experience in AWS cloud and AWS native technologies such as Glue, Lambda, Kinesis , Lake Formation, S3, DynamoDB, Step Functions, Athena
  • Hands-on API development experience using AWS API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cognito, ECS, EKS, Fargate.
  • Experience with Business Intelligence tools like Tableau, Cognos, Thought Spot
  • Experience with relational databases like Oracle, Snowflake, including advanced SQL, Tasks/Streams, stored procedures, and performance tuning.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI, AI SQL functions or an equivalent production LLM platform.
  • Proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, No

    SQL, relational databases (RDBMS), database concepts, and dimensional modeling
  • Hands-on experience building complex business logic and data ingestion and transformation (ETL/ELT) workflows using Informatica IICS or similar tools, AWS pipelines, Snowpipe, Streaming solutions, Kafka and other industry standard tools and processes is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with Python/shell scripting and SQL for building scalable data pipelines.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions and/or Jenkins, and infrastructure as code with Terraform and/or Cloud Formation
  • Experience implementing LLM observability with Arize or a comparable platform is a plus.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Demonstrate integrity and maturity, and a constructive approach to challenges
  • Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly those that apply to Data Warehouse and Big Data environments
  • Open-minded, solution-oriented and a very good team player
  • Passionate about programming and learning new technologies; focused on helping yourself and the team to improve skills
  • Effective problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and report simultaneously across different stakeholders
  • Rigorous attention to detail and accuracy
Core Competencies

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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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