Senior Cloud Data Engineer

About this role

Overview:

National Debt Relief (NDR) is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. In this role, you will own the orchestration, automation, and optimization of data workflows across our existing Snowflake-based enterprise data platform. Reporting to the Director of Data Engineering, you will be responsible for designing and delivering scalable, production-ready data systems by extending and managing the infrastructure, pipelines, and monitoring frameworks that power our analytics ecosystem.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Python-based data pipelines, deep experience with modern orchestration tools like Dagster, and proficiency with SQL and modern cloud data warehouses. You will operate at the intersection of data engineering and platform operations, ensuring reliable, automated, and governed data workflows at scale. This role requires a high degree of ownership, strong problem-solving skills, and clear communication with leadership and technical teams alike.

Responsibilities:

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and orchestration of data pipelines in Dagster to improve ingestion, transformation, and data quality workflows across the enterprise data platform.
• Develop and maintain Python-based ingestion pipelines where there isn’t already a connector from Fivetran, integrating data from APIs and third-party systems.
• Manage Snowflake infrastructure using IaC (Terraform or similar), while adhering to Data Engineering best practices.
• Design, maintain, and optimize dbt transformation workflows to support curated and trusted data models for analytics and operations.
• Focus on optimizing Snowflake performance and reducing compute spend through warehouse tuning, efficient query design, and resource utilization monitoring.
• Respond to morning load failures to minimize impact to the business (east coast working hours).
• Implement robust data security and access controls within Sno...