$112.6K – $152.8K/yr
Pay vs market · Near median
This job's pay ($165,000 a year at the midpoint) is higher than about 45% of 211 salary-listed Data Engineer jobs in United States in the last 12 months; their median is $167,500.
Role overview
Job description
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Build, maintain, and improve batch and incremental data ingestion pipelines to meet agreed freshness needs, including API pagination and rate limits, retries, schema changes, deletes, and replay or backfill without duplicating data.
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Use approved AI-assisted development tools for coding, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting; protect sensitive data and credentials, and validate generated output through testing, engineering judgment, and peer review.
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Evaluate supported connectors, source-provided shares, file delivery, and custom extraction against required coverage, recovery, security, supportability, and operating cost; favor simpler supported approaches where they meet the need.
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Develop SQL and Python solutions that collect, validate, transform, and publish data for downstream consumption.
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Use Snowflake and dbt to build reliable transformations, incremental models, and reusable datasets that reconcile cross-system identifiers, preserve relevant history, and implement agreed transformation logic. Implement data product standards for technical metadata, schemas, data quality checks, lineage, and freshness monitoring.
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Partner with application and Integration Platform teams on ingestion and governed read access; coordinate source-system writes and operational actions with the responsible integration or application owners.
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Build automated unit, integration, and data-quality tests covering completeness, freshness, uniqueness, consistency, referential integrity, and reconciliation with source systems; investigate discrepancies before publishing data.
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Implement approved access controls with Security, IAM, and data owners, including least-privilege roles, service identities, classification, masking, and row- or column-level controls; test both permitted and denied access.
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Build version-controlled deployment processes for code, database changes, and access grants across development, quality assurance, and production environments, including safe cutover and rollback.
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Monitor pipeline health, freshness, performance, and failures; troubleshoot root causes, recover failed loads, maintain technical documentation and runbooks, and communicate incidents and downstream impacts.
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Optimize Snowflake workloads, queries, transformations, and storage patterns for performance, reliability, and cost discipline.
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Partner with Analytics to reuse existing data models and implement agreed transformation logic, keeping shared datasets aligned with Analytics-owned semantic models.
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Participate in backlog refinement, estimation, code review, and iterative delivery within a Kanban engineering team; break work into testable increments and communicate dependencies and delivery risks.
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Proactively identify and recommend improvements to data architecture, ingestion and transformation patterns, and engineering practices; implement agreed changes to improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
Education and Experience
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
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3 or more years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical role.
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Professional experience writing production-quality SQL and Python.
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Experience independently building, deploying, and supporting production data pipelines, with hands-on orchestration experience covering scheduling, dependency management, monitoring, and failed-run recovery.
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Hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse and a transformation framework; Snowflake and dbt experience is strongly preferred.
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Understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling, keys, grain, ELT/ETL patterns, APIs, source-system integration, schema evolution, and historical-change handling.
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About this listing
- Source: AHEAD's official careers site · still listed there on 9 Nov 2026
- Posted 31 Aug 2026
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Qualification
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience; 3 or more years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical role
Department · ( Shared Services )
Hiring company
AHEAD
AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.
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