Senior Consulting Data Engineer - Snowflake

Responsibilities

The Senior Consulting Data Engineer designs, ingests, and validates analytics data solutions while ensuring project delivery meets customer satisfaction and budget requirements. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain data pipelines and provide actionable business insights using Snowflake and related technologies.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 5 to 9 years of professional experience in data engineering, relational data models, and analytics delivery. Strong proficiency in Snowflake, SQL, DBT, and AWS is required, along with excellent communication skills and the ability to work in regulated environments.

Skills

• Snowflake
• SQL
• DBT
• Data engineering
• Data ingestion
• Data transformation
• Cloud data technologies
• Data modeling
• Analytics delivery
• Data validation
• Data quality assurance
• Technical documentation
• Problem solving
• Communication
• Project management
• AWS

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan

About this role

The Senior Consulting Data Engineer is responsible for providing value to the business by ensuring solutions are implemented as designed to the customer’s satisfaction and approval. This role works in a quality, professional manner to complete project responsibilities on time and on budget, resulting in high customer satisfaction. Gain a clear understanding of client environment, identify client needs, and effectively communicate solutions. This role also supports data engineering delivery by designing, ingesting, transforming, validating, and documenting analytics data solutions, including medallion-style data marts that combine multiple data sources into trusted models for reporting and actionable business insights.
What you will do
Manage time and expense to meet or exceed expectations defined in the Statement of Work, proactively escalating potential budget issues as soon as they are known
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ingest, maintain, and deliver analytics data that supports reporting, ad-hoc analysis, and business decision-making.
Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation processes using Snowflake, SQL, DBT, and related cloud data technologies.
Monitor data pipelines and automated jobs to ensure data is captured, processed, and delivered accurately and on time.
Perform validation and testing of data transformations to ensure high-quality, reliable data outputs.
Ensure data processes are efficient, repeatable, well documented, and aligned with required governance and data privacy expectations.
Work independently on multiple projects in diverse customer environments, ensure that appropriate management is apprised of project status, bring projects to completion and follow up with customers regarding results.
Troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and provide solutions to complex technology problems. Conduct analysis, problem solving, and planning.
Identify and communicate potential opportunities for cross-selling to the sales team.
Collaborate with team members in the development of best practices within team
Demonstrable passion for technology while using problem solving capabilities to deliver solutions utilizing a top end engineering approach with an enthusiasm for learning
Focused on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
Flexible in thinking; able to evolve a solution when additional information or ideas are presented making tactical vs. strategic tradeoffs where needed
​What we expect of you
Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ professional experience with relational data models, databases, data engineering, ingestion, transformation, and analytics delivery OR 9+ years’ professional experience with relational data models, databases, data engineering, ingestion, transformation, and analytics delivery
Strong experience with Snowflake, DBT, AWS, and SQL, including data transformation, cleansing, preparation, and performance-minded development.
Experience developing datasets that support ad-hoc analytical needs, reporting, and marketing or business stakeholder insight generation.
Experience working in highly regulated industries and complying with internal governance, data privacy, and data quality requirements.
Preferred experience includes healthcare data, marketing data, and a bachelor’s degree in IT, software engineering, data engineering, or a related field.
Implements, maintains, upgrades, and troubleshoots S&S solutions; transferring technical skills and knowledge to client through work logs.
Performs overall solution Quality Assurance (QA) tasks for all projects delivered against assigned project deliverables while ensuring they are in alignment with the project scope and SOW (Statement of Work).
Provides implementation/migration planning to client, knowing and meeting client timetable, coordinating vendor installations, etc.
Facilitates communication between product team members.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with leadership stakeholders and clients.
Proven ability to maintain and create technical documentation for assigned project work.
Demonstrated attention to detail, especially client and project changes, with solid analytical skills to identify potential risks.
History of balancing competing priorities with the ability to adapt to the changing needs of the business while meeting deadlines.
Demonstrated experience applying lessons learned to unique problems. History of reskilling on new technologies with understanding of difference with past technologies.
Ability and willingness to travel as needed to other CDW locations or client sites.
Pay range: $105,000 - $150,000 depending on experience and skill set
Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner’s mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances—not replaces—human creativity and decision-making. You don’t need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.
Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that’s curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what’s possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand y...

About CDW

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