[Remote] Senior Data Engineer 2026 - US

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aimpoint Digital is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to advise clients and deliver end-to-end data engineering solutions for analytics and AI use cases. The role includes designing and building AI-ready data platforms and pipelines, developing semantic and analytical layers, and contributing to client engagements and the data engineering practice.

Responsibilities

• Become a trusted data and AI advisor to our clients, from data owners and analytic users to executive stake holders helping them translate business questions into AI-ready data architectures
• Work independently as part of a small team to solve complex data engineering use-cases across a variety of industries
• Design and implement AI-optimized data platforms, including cloud data warehouses, lakehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration jobs, and analytic layers that support LLM-driven analytics, natural language querying, and agent-based workflows
• Build and evolve semantic and analytical layers that power tools like Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Genie, BI platforms, and emerging AI Copilots
• Use modern platforms and tooling such as Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, and cloud-native orchestration frameworks to deliver scalable solutions, and credentialize your skills with certifications
• Engineer modern ELT/ETL pipelines that handle structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data to support AI and analytics use cases
• Design modern data models with an emphasis on metrics layers, knowledge graphs, and semantic consistency for AI consumption
• Write production-ready code in SQL, Python, and Spark, following software engineering tools and best-practices such as Git and CI/CD
• Apply AI-assisted data engineering techniques for data exploration, quality checks, schema generation, documentation, lineage, and transformation acceleration
• Contribute to the evolution of our AI-forward data engineering and infrastructure practice, including internal accelerators, patterns, and client-ready architectures
• Collaborate with analytics, data science, and ML project teams to productionize AI-enabled analytics, features, and inference pipelines. Note: You will not be developing machine learning models or algorithms

Skills

• Degree educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
• Experienced at partnering with business stakeholders, explaining technical concepts clearly, and shaping solutions around real business outcomes
• Passionate about modern data engineering and AI trends, including LLM powered analytics, semantic layers, vectorized data access, and metadata-driven architectures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required
• 3+ years working with relational databases and query languages
• 3+ years building data pipelines in production and ability to work across structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
• 3+ years data modeling (e.g. star schema, entity-relationship)
• 3+ years writing clean, maintainable, and robust code in Python, Scala, Java, or similar coding languages
• Comfortable working independently on individual workstream, owning end-to-end delivery from design through production
• Expertise in software engineering concepts and best practices
• 2+ years' experience with dbt Core and/or dbt Cloud
• Experience enabling or accelerating data platform engineering workflows with AI tools such as Codex, Claude, Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code, and/or Databricks Genie Code
• DevOps experience
• Experience working with cloud data warehouses (Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift, Microsoft Synapse)
• Experience working with cloud ETL/ELT tools (Fivetran, dbt, Matillion, Informatica, Talend, etc.)
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience working with Apache Spark
• Experience preparing data for analytics and following a data science workflow to drive business results
• Consulting experience strongly preferred

Benefits

• Full-time, remote work within the US
• Atlanta applicants have the opportunity to work from headquarters in Sandy Springs, GA

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