Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Pleasanton, California (hybrid work)
Rate : $80/Hr on W2
Client : Critical River | Meeru AI
Role Overview:
As a Senior/Lead Data Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and ownership of core data infrastructure-from pipelines to storage to data products. You'll be a strategic partner across teams, ensuring that our data systems are robust, scalable, and optimized for performance. With executive visibility and deep cross-functional collaboration, the solutions you build will directly influence product strategy and operational excellence.
This is a unique opportunity to build from the ground up while working with cutting-edge technologies such as Postgres SQL, dbt, Snowflake, and modern orchestration frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
Location: Pleasanton, California (hybrid work)
Rate : $80/Hr on W2
Client : Critical River | Meeru AI
Role Overview:
As a Senior/Lead Data Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and ownership of core data infrastructure-from pipelines to storage to data products. You'll be a strategic partner across teams, ensuring that our data systems are robust, scalable, and optimized for performance. With executive visibility and deep cross-functional collaboration, the solutions you build will directly influence product strategy and operational excellence.
This is a unique opportunity to build from the ground up while working with cutting-edge technologies such as Postgres SQL, dbt, Snowflake, and modern orchestration frameworks.
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and implement scalable ELT pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, and Postgres.
- Optimize data models in both Snowflake (cloud DW) and Postgres (transactional/operational data).
- Implement advanced Snowflake features (Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, RBAC, Security).
- Design and maintain hybrid pipelines (Postgres → Snowflake) for seamless data integration.
- Establish data quality and testing frameworks using dbt tests and metadata-driven validation.
- Implement CI/CD workflows (Git, GitHub Actions, or similar) for dbt/Snowflake/Postgres projects.
- Drive observability, monitoring, and performance tuning of pipelines (logs, lineage, metrics).
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and analysts.
- Collaborate with Finance, Product, Marketing, and GTM teams to deliver trusted, business-critical data models.
- Support financial data processes (consolidation, reconciliation, close automation).
- Evaluate and experiment with emerging AI and data technologies, providing feedback to influence product direction.
- Experience: 8+ years in Data Engineering, including 3+ years in Snowflake & dbt.
- Database Expertise:
- Deep hands-on experience with dbt (Core/Cloud) - macros, testing, documentation, and packages.
- Strong expertise in Postgres (schema design, optimization, stored procedures, large-scale workloads).
- Advanced knowledge of Snowflake (data modeling, performance tuning, governance).
- Programming: Proficient in SQL and Python, including API integrations and automation.
- Orchestration & ETL: Hands-on with Airflow, Dagster, Prefect (or similar), and ETL/ELT tools like Fivetran, Nifi.
- Data Architecture: Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, medallion architecture, and system design principles.
- Cloud: Experience with AWS (mandatory); GCP or Azure is a plus.
- DevOps: Experience with Git/GitOps CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
- Leadership: Proven ability to mentor teams, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver impact in fast-paced environments.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.