[Remote] Senior Data Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Inizio Partners is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and maintain scalable data transformation pipelines and enterprise data architecture. The role focuses on data modeling, data quality, SQL optimization, AWS infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable data transformation pipelines using SQL, DBT, and Jinja templating
• Develop and maintain data architecture and standards for Data Integration and Data Warehousing projects using DBT and Amazon Redshift
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver dimensional data models that serve as a single source of truth
• Own the full stack of data modeling in DBT to empower analysts, data scientists, and BI engineers
• Enhance and maintain the analytics codebase, including DBT models, SQL scripts, and ERD documentation
• Ensure data quality, governance alignment, and operational readiness of data pipelines
• Apply software engineering best practices such as version control, CI/CD, and code reviews
• Optimize SQL queries for performance, scalability, and maintainability across large datasets
• Implement best practices for SQL performance tuning, including partitioning, clustering, and materialized views
• Build and manage infrastructure as code using AWS CDK for scalable and repeatable deployments. Integrate and automate deployment workflows using AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and related DevOps tools
• Support Agile development processes and collaborate with offshore teams

Skills

• * Bachelors or Masters (preferred) degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or equivalent
• * 5+ years of experience in data engineering and analytics on modern data platforms
• * 3+ years extensive experience with DBT or similar data transformation tools, including building complex & maintainable DBT models and developing DBT packages/macros
• * Deep familiarity with dimensional modeling/data warehousing concepts and expertise in designing, implementing, operating, and extending enterprise dimensional models
• * Understand change data capture concepts
• * Experience working with AWS Services (Lambda, Step Functions, MWAA, Glue, Redshift)
• * Hands-on experience with AWS CDK, CodeCommit, and CodePipeline for infrastructure automation and CI/CD
• * Python proficiency or general knowledge of Jinja templating in Python and/or PySpark
• * Agile experience and willingness to work with extended offshore teams and assist with design and code reviews with customer
• * A great teammate and self-starter, strong detail orientation is critical in this role

Benefits

• 12% bonus
• Remote (US)

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